10/27/10Dish Flash: The Fifty/50, Bleeding Heart Bakery Team Up in West TownGreg Mohr and Scott Weiner, the co-owners of Fifty/50 (2047 W. Division St.; 773-489-5050) in Wicker Park announced plans to open two new concepts in West Town, as reported in Metromix. Roots (1924 W. Chicago Ave.; no phone yet), a neighborhood bar with Quad Cities-style pizza... Posted at 3:18 p.m. | Permalink | Comments (8) |
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10/25/10Dish Flash: More Tacos as Take-out on the WayFirst food trucks, now take-out windows? Apparently, Chicagoans are perfecting dinner on the go. Edgar Castaneda, the restaurateur who helped popularize Latin small plates in Chicago at Zocalo, has plans for a twist on the fast-food walk-up window in Lincoln Park at the aptly-named Taco Joint Urban Taqueria and Cantina (1969 N. Halsted St.; 312-951-2457). The Mexican street fare, such as... Posted at 4:21 p.m. | Permalink | Comments (0) |
10/22/10Dish Flash: More Mobile Rolls on MondayIn case you haven’t had enough cupcakes, More (1 E. Delaware Pl.; 312-951-0001) is launching The More Mobile, a food truck that holds 1,500 of them. Starting Monday, this eco-friendly vehicle (which sports a battery-powered generator to eliminate emissions while the truck is parked) will troll the city on an ever-changing route... Posted at 10:37 a.m. | Permalink | Comments (0) |
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10/21/10Life After Trotter’s: Matthias Merges’s New Project
Goodbye, Charlie Posted at 9:33 a.m. | Permalink | Comments (0) |
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10/13/10Terzo Piano Team More Modern Than EverModern Times Balcony Café, on the second floor of the Art Institute's Modern Wing, will be reborn this Friday as Caffe Moderne (159 E. Monroe St.; no phone yet), with the team upstairs at Terzo Piano taking charge... Posted at 4:17 p.m. | Permalink | Comments (0) |
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10/6/10New in the Loop: IPO Opens (Quietly) at the WGoing Public Hitting white-collar LaSalle Street for a cross-cultural urban experience would be like going to Brooks Brothers to buy gold fronts. But IPO (172 W. Adams St.; 312-917-5608)—which opened quietly on October 4th in the W Chicago-City Center hotel—will attempt to bring the two seemingly disparate elements together. Posted at 5:52 p.m. | Permalink | Comments (0) |
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