Bronzeville Winery Offers NASCAR-Inspired Menu for Chicago Street Race

CHICAGO (CBS) —The NASCAR Chicago Street Race kicks off this weekend and food will be part of the festivities.

Bronzeville Winery will be one of the Chicago area restaurants with a tent, feeding tens of thousands of people attending the event.

For weeks, NASCAR has been working on a major project: building a circuit on the city’s already chaotic streets. The festival site will stretch from South Michigan Ave to Lakeshore Drive, to accommodate the two-day Chicago Street Race.

And someone has to feed them.

“They were looking to attract some more local talent. Apparently, they’ve heard a lot about me and Bronzeville Winery.”

Lamar Moore is one of a handful of chefs invited to represent their local restaurants with a unique menu designed especially for this year’s race.

“People go out and want a quick bite to eat. So sliders are really popular, they’re really popular in restaurants. We thought it would be easy to do, it’s fun and it’s different, but more upscale, it’s making steaks and not just burgers,” Moore said.

“I made some oxtail marmalade that we’re going to put right on it. We’re going to toast some buns with a little butter. I mean, who doesn’t want butter on their bun, right?”

Everything will be cooked to order in the Bronzeville Winery tent, and the chef will prepare 80 to 100 pounds of beef to last the weekend.

“You need a lot of butter, a lot of buns, a lot of equipment. You’re basically making a mobile kitchen out of your own kitchen at home,” Moore says.

All details are being developed by the race’s official food partner, Legacy Chicago Restaurant Group, Lettuce Entertain You.

They manage the space, logistics and culinary programming, bringing together small business owners from across the city.

“We have the opportunity as small Black owners and operators to be able to partner with them and put on such a great event, especially when you’re talking about Chi in the summer, you have to be able to do that,” Moore said.