During the `60’s, 70’s and early `80’s, Maxim’s Restaurant in the Gold Coast was the epitome of elegant dining in Chicago.
Famed Chicago architect Bertrand Goldberg designed the Astor Tower Hotel and turned the basement into what he hoped would be an exact replica of Maxim’s in Paris. It was the Art Nouveau epitome of red velvet elegance operated by the architect’s wife, Nancy, from 1963 until 1982.
