Quick Look: Bread & Wine in Irving Park
LIQUID: The Northwest Side gets a delightfully hip new wine bar
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Weekend Photos: Old Town Pour House
At around 10 p.m., a line literally poured out onto Wells Street outside the nearly two-week-old Old Town Pour House. Inside, a well-heeled crowd buzzed with activity…
Todd Stein to Leave The Florentine to Head Piccolo Sogno Due
The Stuff Dreams, and Branzino, Are Made Of
Todd Stein has upscale-Italian credentials to spare. Further polishing the proverbial boot, his next step will be to run the kitchen at Piccolo Sogno Due…
Weekend Photos: St. Patrick’s Day at Fulton’s on the River
Even in the typical sleet, slush, and slop, the St. Pat’s party people come in droves for a glimpse of the Chicago River in its one day of Kelly green glory. So, with its July-like temps, Saturday’s riverside merriment was off the charts…
Two Dining Critics Confront the Juice Cleanse
JUICY DETAILS: On a quest for inner cleansing, two Chicago food writers hit the bottle
Dunlay’s Owners to Open Crosby’s Kitchen on Southport
Bottle Rocket
The owners of Dunlay’s, D.O.C. Wine Bar, The Smoke Daddy, and Frasca are gutting the space vacated by Leo’s Coney Island, and adding a bar, woodwork, and street-front windows to create Crosby’s Kitchen which they aim to open mid-June…
What’s New, What’s Coming, and What’s Cheap in Chicago Dining
RPM Italian, Glazed and Infused, A Toda Madre, and My Mother’s Kitchen
Charlie Trotter’s Victory Lap
The pressure is finally off at Charlie Trotter’s—which makes it a completely different restaurant
Weekend Photos: Ada Street
Wow. Talk about a diamond in the rough. On Saturday, we sent our photographer to a lonely industrial stretch west of Lincoln Park and just north of Goose Island…
Franks ’n’ Dawgs Owner Alexander Brunacci to Open The Peasantry in Lincoln Park
Special Relativity
“The first time we ever spoke, I said I was an anti-chain person,” Alexander Brunacci told us. True to form, Brunacci’s second restaurant, instead of becoming a sister to Franks ’n’ Dawgs, will be more of a cousin…