I often stay overnight at the O’Hare Hilton for a plane change (I am in KC), and I find the Gaslight Club to be a novel alternative to the usual-well worth its prices. There is nothing unusual about that sports bar, but this place is far from usual. Guests at the Airport Hilton mob into the sports bar, and a much smaller group gives this place a try.
Frankly I don’t know why it is not more popular than it is.
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“Should be judged relative to what it is: a throwback to an old movie about the upscale past, perhaps a hundred years ago. Water and bread (served on a cutting board) are dispensed by elegantly dressed busboys. Of course, dinner and drinks are served by friendly, slender, well-endowed, mostly Eastern European Gaslight Girls wearing low-cut tops, frills covering their backsides, fishnets or nylons, and high-heels-similar to a Playboy bunny outfit, minus the tail (after all, it was this outfit that inspired the bunny outfit). For dessert, the lemon mousse hits the spot quite nicely, though the chocolate mousse and Eli’s cheesecake are likely more popular. For those wanting a step down in price, the Chicken Florentine and Wienerschnitzel are recommended.
Signature steaks and chops run $34-49, the top end of which is the Gaslight Steak (prime bone-in rib chop), and surf & turf goes for $60+ (filet mignon and lobster tail)-all of which are served a la carte (expect $6 for a baked potato). The menu is definitely geared to those on an expense account. Though once served in ceramic mugs, all drinks are now served in their customary glassware. A fairly pedestrian beer list (no craft brews, thank you) has its counterpoint with a fine dessert selection of ports, cognacs, single malt whiskey, and a few other delectable spirits. Rather than the shots you might have had at a place like the now-defunct Spike’s Rat Bar, this one comes in martini form, made with Limoncello and a lemon wedge. The signature cocktail is the lemon drop. The bar is found at the north end of the room with an impressive wooden back-bar framed by stately columns. A portal under the large “Longhorn Room” sign hanging on the eastern wall leads to the kitchen, beyond which is a small aisle for servers that is flanked by two elevated tables. Perhaps it’s the gigantic chandelier overhead, but the piano looks a bit small, especially with the loosely piled stack of music books stacked upon it. While Dixieland Jazz was once featured, you’ll find the typical piano bar cover songs instead like what you’d hear at Redhead Piano Bar, Zebra Lounge or Davenport’s. Nightly entertainment centers around the piano found halfway down the western wall. Several smallish, low-slung wooden tables fill this space, looked upon by large, ornately framed Rubenesque nudes and a photo of Jimmy Durante smiling broadly and surrounded by the original Gaslight Club girls. Smaller, two-seater tables lie beneath faux bookcases along the eastern wall.īeyond the dining area is the heart & soul of the place, The Longhorn Room: a square, two-story space that is just large enough to accommodate the enormous crystal chandelier brought over from a castle in Europe.
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A small room to your right features a handful of low-slung, four-seater tables, across from a series of tall, leather-upholstered wooden booths.
To the left of the framed Gaslight sign promising “Elegant Dining & Entertainment,” you’ll find the maitre’ d stand below a white statue of a woman that looks like she’s about to dive into water-perhaps your wallet instead… If you’re dining, the hostess will lead you to your table down a narrow carpeted aisle with Victorian wallpaper and illuminated by Tiffany lamps.
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Serbian owner Ranko (Ray) Dabizljevic leases the space from the Hilton and advertises the dress code as “business attire,” a rarity these days. The Gaslight Club is located at the northwest end of the lobby, to the right of the front desk. Visitors either fly in, take the Blue Line “L” or park in the short-term lot. The O’Hare Hilton is situated across from Terminal Three, within the confines of O’Hare International Airport. Gaslight was open to key-holding members until 2001 and is now available to anyone wanting a cocktail, steak or seafood dinner, and live piano entertainment in a posh throwback setting. The Gaslight Club’s extends beyond even that, attracting more of a transient business clientele with few regulars coming from the city or suburbs. The waitstaff consists of lovely and charming can-can girls dressed in corsets, tassels and fishnet stockings. The Gaslight Club situated in the O’Hare Hilton is the last of the original 20s-era speakeasies that inspired the old Playboy Clubs.
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