Make your own chai, eat everything at Eataly, drink beer after-hours at MSI or get fancy with your whisky this weekend in Chicago.
DIY chai
Check it out, chai lovers: Chiya Chai (2770 N. Milwaukee Ave.) will host a make-your-own chai workshop from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, including a chai demonstration, hands-on activity and a lunch buffet. Husband and wife owners Swadesh Shrestha and Rajee Aryal will speak about the history and culture and demonstrate the creation process before guests get a chance to make their own, either masala chai, ginger cardamom or vanilla nutmeg chai. The buffet is included in the ticket price, while additional drinks will be available for purchase. Guests also get to take home a packet of their chai blend. Tickets: $30. eventbrite.com
All-you-can-Eataly
An evening of all-you-can-eat at Eataly (43 E. Ohio St.) either sounds like paradise or torture, or maybe a little bit of both. The bi-level culinary behemoth hosts these “all-access parties” twice per year, allowing guests to enjoy unlimited food and drink from all of Eataly’s stations. SpringFest is the spring edition of the party, beginning at 8 p.m. Friday and running until midnight. Beyond its usual offerings, Eataly will also have live music from Chicago-based La Tosca and a gardening workshop, along with other ephemeral eating and drinking experiences. Tickets: $75. eataly.com
Ring ring, royalty
Originally Destiny Nicole Frasqueri, the New-York-City-born-and-raised Princess Nokia is on her second musical lifetime. She first broke through as Wavy Spice in 2012 before changing her moniker to Princess Nokia in 2014. She makes some off-the-wall, experimental-esque hip-hop and R&B, and her identity as an Afro-Puerto Rican queer women strongly informs her lyrics. Tickets: $26 advance, $29 day of. metrochicago.com.
UPDATE: The show has been rescheduled until April 29.
Museum of Suds and Imbibing
The Museum of Science and Industry is in the middle of its Spring Make Festival — essentially an IRL episode of “How It’s Made” — and its upcoming edition of MSI After Hours will reflect that, with a theme dubbed Science on Tap. The Museum invites the 21+ crowd to come learn about beer from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Friday, including a hands-on homebrewing workshop, a lesson from Empirical Brewery on how science affects beer flavor and the physics behind a perfect beer-pong toss. Tickets include snacks, one beer or cocktail, parking and access to most exhibits, although tickets to the museum’s Make Shop must be purchased separately. Tickets: $30. msichicago.org
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Whisky weekends
Another weekend, another whisky festival, and this one is serious: WhiskyFest comes from Whisky Advocate magazine, has stops across the country and boasts more than 300 different types of whisky, including aged options. There are also seminars and plenty of other festivities during the 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. Friday schedule at the Hyatt Regency (151 E. Upper Wacker Drive), so if you’re serious about your whisky, this one could be for you. Tickets: $325. whiskyfest.com
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