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Micki Maynard · Medium Rare On The Aisle: Movie Theater To Become Steakhouse
February 7th, 2012
Everyone who wanders through Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood sees the empty Esquire Theater and asks, “why don’t they do something with it?” Now, the 1938 movie palace is about to be reinvented — as a steakhouse.
Chicago's Esquire Theater
DelFrisco’s Restaurant Group plans to open a DelFrisco’s Double Eagle Steakhouse in the theater at 58 East Oak Street, a stone’s throw from North Michigan Avenue.
According to Crain’s Chicago Business, the steakhouse will have an entry on the first floor, and seating on the second and third floors, for a total of 23,000 square feet.
DelFrisco’s, based in Dallas, specializes in these monster steakhouses, with outlets in New York, Las Vegas and elsewhere.
But restaurant that size will be a departure for Oak Street, one of the city’s most famous fashion centers. It is dotted with high-end stores such as Barney’s New York, Jimmy Choo and Hermes. And, Chicago is already chock-a-block with steak places.
At least someone is saving the Esquire. That got us to thinking about movie theaters that are being reused.
In Ann Arbor, Urban Outfitters takes up the first floor of the old State Theater (movies are still shown upstairs). The Fillmore in Detroit is a concert venue inside another theater called The State. Are there more?
