Nella Grassano first drew the drooling hordes at Spacca Napoli, where she made the Neapolitan-style pizzas that packed the place as soon as it opened in 2006. Then Grassano teamed up with Scott Harris of the Francesca’s chain in late 2009 to open Nella Pizzeria Napoletana on Clark Street in Lincoln Park, with plans for a second location in Little Italy…
A scene from Balsan’s Sunday Supper Six nights a week, Balsan is a standard (noisy, pricey) hotel bar with above-average food; you can get a $15 hamburger or $60 worth of suckling pig. But on the seventh, chef Danny Grant, who also helms four-star sibling Ria, offers Sunday Supper—a lovely, bountiful meal for $29. The … Read more
Pizza and beignets? Thousands of local restaurants focus on the former, and a handful have begun serving the latter (Chicago Cut, Big Jones, and The Portage, to name three), but only this unassuming spot offers both. Jimmy Kang, the owner, may be onto something. His beignets, under a cloud of powdered sugar, are light and … Read more
Penny Pollack says Izard’s cookbook should make anyone comfortable in the kitchen.
There’s a flurry of action under the El tracks on Lake Street as husband-and-wife team Mark and Elizabeth Mendez—both formerly of Carnivale, where he was the executive chef and she was the wine director—prepare to open their new Spanish-inspired wine bar, Vera, at the address that last housed the short-lived Addiction Sports Bar…
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When their kids were on a play date, Lisa Fosler Kelly and Jennifer Wisniewski discovered they shared the dream of opening a wine bar…
With the second reinvention of the legendary bar officially happening today, a look back at where the legend came from, courtesy of Rick Kogan. Plus: Rick Telander on Rush Street circa 1988, and a tour of Chicago nightlife at the end of the ’80s.
Hot on the heels of our intrepid reporter’s weeknight visit to 120 Degrees Ultra Lounge, the new spot on the ground floor of Lake Point Tower, we sent a photographer back to the bar to check out the weekend action…
It may always hit 90 degrees in Dallas in October, but if this were a different kind of fall week here in Chicago, the Texas import III Forks might not have been able to test-drive its rooftop lounge at all…
