Reviews: Goosefoot and Les Nomades
HUNGER GAMES: Les Nomades sets the time machine for 2000. Goosefoot sets it for tomorrow
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Two Chefs at Hot Upcoming Openings: Tortoise Club’s Gray McNally and RPM Italian’s Doug Psaltis
Edward Gray McNally will serve as the chef of The Tortoise Club when it opens this summer and Doug Psaltis runs the kitchen at RPM Italian opening late this month…
Nightlife Photos: Trenchermen Pop-Up at Logan Square Kitchen
Their upcoming Wicker Park venture, Trenchermen (40 percent bar, 60 percent restaurant—at least according to the seat allocation), is on target for a late March opening in the old Spring space. But brothers and chefs Michael (Blackbird) and Patrick Sheerin (Signature Room at the 95th) aren’t holed up testing recipes under top-secret lockdown until then…
A Night of Discerning Drinking
Chicago magazine writers, editors, and readers gathered last night at Bucktown hot spot Duchamp to celebrate cocktails and budding mixologists.
Guinnessometrics: Saving Science and Statistics With Beer
A Roosevelt University economist looks into the scientific and statistical legacy of W.S. Gosset, aka “Student,” Guinness’s legendary Oxford-educated brewmaster and scientific-paradigm-shifter.
Chilapan to Open Second Location in Ravenswood
Holy Mole, Batman
The two-year-old Logan Square Mexican spot Chilapan, known for its high-quality food and chill ambiance, will get a sibling in Ravenswood…
Hyde Park’s SHOP Serves Up Beer and Art
A ROOM WITH A BREW: A cozy art-gallery-slash-pub finds a home in a new community art center
Weekend Photos: Super Bowl XLVI at The Ogden
A mostly dispassionate crowd—Bears fans to the core, we presume—kept one eye on the game last night at The Ogden (1659 W. Ogden Ave.; 312-226-1888) as the Giants beat the Patriots, 21–17…
Owners of Algonquin’s Montarra to Open Terra in Evanston
Earth to Evanston
Here’s the dirt on Terra, scheduled to land in three weeks or so…
The Hot List: 10 places everyone’s talking about and dining at in February in order of heat
Chicago’s most-buzzed-about restaurants this month