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Ticket Sales
Food and Menus
Banquets, Rehearsal Dinners & Private Parties

Chord On Blues, which has been open since 1996, is a 14000 square foot facility, located on the river in beautiful downtown St. Charles. COB features two separate bar / restaurants under one roof separated by a kitchen in the middle. On one side is The Grille. The Grille at Chord On Blues features a full menu of great food, four tournament quality billiard tables, darts, tasty specialty martini’s and cocktails, 12 beers on draft, daily drink specials and a large covered beer garden where you can sit in the summer breeze rain or shine. The Main room at Chord On Blues, is where we feature live blues music being performed by the nations top touring talent. Think of us as a “Dinner Theatre” for the blues. It should also be mentioned however, that many of our customers come just for our food, never mind the show. In COB you will find an upscale room boasting a beautiful bar, a large elevated stage and dinner seating for up to 150 people. Total capacity is around 250 and sight lines to the stage are great from where ever you’re seated. Attire is casual, although dress to the “nines” if you like. You’ll feel perfectly comfortable. The COB menu is broad and diverse with a focus on steaks. Great food at a great price. At 9pm the entire facility is a 21 and over club so proper ID is required.

Ticket Sales
Currently we do not pre-sell tickets through a “box office.” So … there are two ways to see a show at COB. You can join us for dinner and show by placing a reservation at (630) 513-0074. The best time to arrive for dinner and show is between 7:30 and 8:30 depending on your dining pace. Our goal is to have you fed and your table clear by show time when the lights go down and the party starts! Please do not leave your reservation request on e-mail. If you are coming for show only simply show up and pay a cover charge at the door. Depending on the show you may want to arrive around 8:30 to 9pm. If you choose to join us for dinner you will still be charged for the show but you keep your table all night and you get preferential seating in return for dining with us. We seat from front to back, based upon the date you placed your reservation. We try our best to accommodate special seating requests, when possible, but cannot guarantee them. You’ll find our prices are reasonable. We didn’t build the cost of national touring blues bands into our food and beverage prices. Doors are always at 5:30 and show time is typically at 10pm. Show time’s change only on the rare occasion when we feature an opening act or the rare weekday show. Look at the schedule page on the site for details. We feature two full menus that can be found on the dining page.

Food & Menus
On the home page of our website you will find a drop down menu that says food. Click on that and it will take you to our menus. One for the Grille and one for Chord On Blues. Click on the logo’s to get to the menus. In COB we feature a broad menu with an emphasis on steaks. But, you will also find some interesting and tasty dishes such as Jambalaya and Parmesan Shrimp Pasta. Our Baby Back Ribs are great and one of my personal favorites is the Breaded Pork Chops. Of course we have poultry dishes and we feature fresh Seafood specials every weekend. When it comes to food, our goal is to serve you good food at a good price. We don’t have “cuisine” just great food. We serve entrée’s to 10pm and sandwiches and burgers until midnight. Our late night (10pm to midnight) also happens to be the same menu that we serve in The Grille. The Grille is the more casual side of the Chord On Blues complex and is also where are Beer Garden is located, which is a great place to eat and drink during the warmer months of the year. The Grille menu leans more toward “Pub Style” fare and I have to say that our Burgers are great.

Banquets, Rehearsal Dinners & Private Parties
We have plenty of space and are very well situated to accommodate most special functions. Over the past nine years we have hosted virtually every kind of function imaginable, from wedding receptions to corporate meetings and everything in between. To this point, we have handled each one on a custom bases since each event is a little different. However, in an attempt to stream line things a little, we are near completion of our “Banquet Program” which will be posted on the food page the moment it’s done. There is plenty of free parking and we are easy to find. Please call or e-mail us with your banquet inquiries.

I sincerely hope that this info has been helpful and appreciate your support of COB and the blues, which just happens to be one of the only art forms whose origin is right here in the US. From the beginning we have stayed the course with a single minded focus on quality, even when popularity is sometimes the more profitable choice. We will continue to bring you the very best blues artists the country has to offer. I can promise you this … even if you’re not familiar with the name, I assure you they are some of the most talented and passionate musicians on the planet, who have paid a significant price to go down the road less traveled. I have a deep respect for these most humble and colorful people and equal respect for those who continue to support them. All the Best … Steve Chapman