At Tasting Table’s Open Market Chicago event at Revel Fulton Market last December, guests posed in front of a Santa-approved photo booth featuring a wall full of colorful ornaments.
Photo: Jared Powell Photography
Jars by Dani creates cake jars and can customize colors and toppings along with logos and messages for any event. Flavors include white chocolate, cookie dough, fudge brownie, and more.
Photo: Courtesy of Jars by Dani
For a nonalcoholic option, try the hot chocolate kit from artisanal food purveyor Mouth. Kits, $53, contain a mix of hot chocolate pops, cocoa mix, handmade marshmallows, and peppermint sticks for stirring.
Photo: Courtesy of Mouth
San Francisco-based Smitten Ice Cream will introduce two new seasonal flavors this season: New, Old Fashioned Pecan Pie, available in November; and Chrismukah, available in December. The latter, commemorating the dual holiday, combines homemade chocolate gelt (aka, chocolate coins) and Christmas cookies into a smooth, sweet cream flavor. Pints cost $11 each.
Photo: Tory Putnam
Ramen Station with broth freshly infused with wild mushrooms and served from hot tea siphons
Photo Courtesy of Catering by Michaels
A plated appetizer of seared scallop with citrus and Merlot salt.
