Hot Doug's Falls Foul Of Chicago Foie Gras Ban
The first Chicago restaurant to get ticketed for serving foie gras? You'd think it would be a fancy French restaurant, and you'd be wrong—it was Hot Doug's Encased Meats Emporium and Sausage Superstore on the Northwest Side, which received its ticket just last week: "Even after the ordinance took effect in August, Sohn continued serving it occasionally, and about 6 a.m. Friday, he posted the day’s specials on his restaurant’s Web site, including "Foie Gras and Sauternes Duck Sausage with Truffle Sauce Moutarde and Armagnac-Truffle Chicken Mousse" for $6.50. A representative of the Health Department showed up at the restaurant, 3324 N. California, before he even opened his doors at 10:30 a.m., Sohn said. "I was impressed. I’d like to see them react that quickly to anything in the city," Sohn said."
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4 Comments:
I can just picture Chicago chefs jumping to their deaths from the windows of their ground floor restaurants. Lord, let NYC be spared this fate !
Mr. K at 11:58AM on 02/20/07
Kind of interesting given that an article was written last week about how many restaurants were still serving it...and Hot Doug's was mentioned. I am sure that put him on the radar screen of the animal rights wackos who called the City when they saw the special. He should do what many others are doing, sell it as duck liver not Foir Gras.
EatWisconsin at 2:56PM on 02/20/07
No smoking, no delicious duck...what's next? No drinking? No talking? Could they perhaps take on KFC before messing with Doug Sohn?
For those of you that have not tried Hot Doug's...amazing! I hope that the city of Chicago leaves the little guy alone.
egold60089 at 1:41PM on 02/28/07
It absolutely put Hot Doug's on the radar - I was there the day he got fined and ABC's Nightline showed up on the scene. For the record, although I'm no friend of PETA, I don't support animal cruelty and obviously, the methods for making Foie Gras can't be called humane under any circumstances... BUT, I don't need the City to babysit me about it, as I said to the Nightline crew at the time.
Furthermore, if people are opposed to Foie Gras, let them show it by refusing to buy and consume it. And for the folks around town heralding Daley as an animal rights activist, ... I notice he didn't ban veal...
MOPChicago at 12:29PM on 04/17/07