When I first saw an announcement heralding the debut of the Bravo Zulu Lounge at this year’s Chicago Air and Water Show—officially my favorite weekend of summer; is anyone else already shivering over these practice flybys?—I didn’t get it…
BREAD WINNERS: The humble bánh mì makes tracks all over town
Enoteca Energy
Riccardo Michi, the owner of Riccardo Trattoria, takes it beyond flatware for his upcoming wine bar across the street, Riccardo Enoteca…
MOMENTS OF TRUTH: Explaining the strange and unbreakable bond that forms between diner and restaurant—and what happens when it doesn’t
Three sláintes for River Shannon, which celebrated its 65th birthday on Saturday, making it the city’s oldest Irish pub still in operation…
If you ever dined at Jerry Kleiner’s South Loop restaurant Opera, the building’s new occupant, The Scout Waterhouse + Kitchen, is bound to give you a serious jolt of culture shock. The interior of The Scout, which is in soft-opening mode now in advance of its grand opening on August 19, is done in a style I’d call post-Kleiner: nary an inch of velvet, an ounce of wrought iron, or a dash of primary color anywhere in sight…
I Cook, Therefore I Am
Now several overhauls away from the original Jacky, Jacky’s on Prairie has new owners—Jonadab Silva and Erin Silva Winston, also known as the current chef and the pastry chef…
The dancing. Oh, the dancing! OK Go, that purveyor of just-try-to-sit-still viral videos, got the crowd on its feet and sweaty at Debonair Social Club’s Lollapalooza preparty Thursday night, when two members of the formerly Chicago-based band took over DJ duties right around midnight—just 24 hours and change after playing Obama’s 50th birthday bash at the Aragon…
Much to my mother’s chagrin, I am a sometime passenger on the back of The Creative Director’s motorcycle, so I was heartened last night to find a row of hogs parked outside my destination: The Garage, a brand new bar in the Gladstone/Jefferson Park area, just a few blocks south of Superdawg. “These are my people,” I thought, having barely recovered from a numb posterior brought on by last weekend’s cruise to summer camp in Elkhorn, Wisconsin…
Thai-In
“The chive dumplings are game changers,” Pollack said when she ate at this unassuming 40-seat BYO Thai and sushi place…
