Camba will be the chef at Bar Pastoral (2947 N. Broadway, no phone yet), the bistro and wine bar scheduled to open in October adjacent to the original Lake View location of the cheese, bread, and wine shop Pastoral…
We could think of no better way to send off summer than by stuffing our faces (or, rather, photographing contestants as they stuffed their faces) with frankfurters…
Chicago’s most-buzzed-about restaurants this month
The incoming executive chef at Tesori (65 E. Adams St., 312-786-9911) is Andrew Deuel, who just finished a stint at the Fifth Avenue Armani store’s restaurant in New York…
Regan, 33, plans to open her restaurant, Elizabeth (4835 N. Western Ave., no phone yet) on September 19. The ambitious project is gunning for the highest echelons of fine dining and growing out of the underground-dining series, One Sister, through which she made her name…
LM = Lots More
You could be excused for thinking that Brasserie 54 by LM enumerates how many restaurants the owners of the LM brand, Stephan and Nicole Outrequin Quaisser, have by now. The total is four, a number that has grown exponentially since they opened their first LM in March…
One thousand picnickers donned their chicest summer whites and descended on the Art Institute of Chicago’s South Lawn Friday night for Dîner en Blanc, a flash mob-style BYO picnic…
Singh a New Song
The sommelier and Check, Please! host Alpana Singh says things are coming into greater focus at the Boarding House (720 N. Wells St., no phone yet), her wine-driven restaurant in a townhouse, where each level will offer customers a different experience, such as more formal dining on the second floor and a late-night lounge in the wine cellar…
The 20-year-old Belgian tavern is better than ever, with 20 new draft beer lines and a kitchen five times the size of the former one.
City Winery, the West Loop spinoff of the NYC restaurant/bar/operational winery/music venue, made its debut last week, and we couldn’t wait to pop in on Friday night…
