Can a restaurant on a 60-year-old golf course be cool?
With hand-stretched pizza, the edge of the crust brushed with a garlic-herb butter after it’s baked, sprightly cocktails and service, The Edit Social House definitely meets the moment. Add the pleasant chip of a round beginning or clinking to a close on the greens of Oakbrook Golf Club just outside the doors, and yes, it is, in fact, cool.
Golf references dot the menu, although the Birdie Bites being bacon-wrapped jalapenos piped not with the usual cream cheese but creamy feta feel like a stroke — shouldn’t they be the wings? They’re great, though, so order them anyway. But just like the Masters at Augusta National has been doing, also for 60 years, The Edit at Oakbrook slings a pimento cheese sandwich, only it’s not enveloped in a lightweight green plastic bag, it’s not $1.50 (sigh) and it’s boosted by fried chicken and sun-dried tomato aioli…