The Hot List: 10 places everyone’s talking about and dining at in April in order of heat
Chicago’s most-buzzed-about restaurants this month
Chicago’s most-buzzed-about restaurants this month
(Rib-)Eyeing a Steak House Void
Wilmette Chop House opened yesterday after a quick turnaround in the space that housed the short-lived Bluette…
LIQUID: The Northwest Side gets a delightfully hip new wine bar
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…
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…
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…
JUICY DETAILS: On a quest for inner cleansing, two Chicago food writers hit the bottle
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…
RPM Italian, Glazed and Infused, A Toda Madre, and My Mother’s Kitchen
The pressure is finally off at Charlie Trotter’s—which makes it a completely different restaurant