Two Dining Critics Confront the Juice Cleanse
JUICY DETAILS: On a quest for inner cleansing, two Chicago food writers hit the bottle
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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…
Dish Flash: Ten Questions for Graham Elliot
Elliot owns the restaurants Graham Elliot, Grahamwich, and the upcoming G.E.B., as well as appearing on the show MasterChef. Elliot recently named Andrew Brochu the chef at Graham Elliot…
Dish Flash: Blue 13’s Chris Curren to Head Stout Barrel House & Galley
“Manor has been gutted. People who have been inside of there won’t even recognize it,” says Chris Curren, the chef of Stout Barrel House & Galley (642 N. Clark St.; no phone yet), a restaurant scheduled to open in April in the former nightclub space, from LGN Group, known for boîtes such as Manor, Stay, and RiNo…
CTA Bus Tracker Increases Ridership, Modestly
A new study suggests that the CTA’s implementation of bus tracking—on its web site, on smart phones, and at bus stops—has led to a small but noticeable increase in weekday ridership, even if you adjust for what you’d expect.
The Hot List: 10 places everyone’s talking about and dining at in March in order of heat
Chicago’s most-buzzed-about restaurants this month