The Bar 10 Doors—say it out loud, faster now; that’s right: “the bar-ten-ders”—opened last week in Little Italy (1259 W. Taylor St.; 312-226-1611) next door to its slightly older sibling, the eclectic global-tapas spot and eccentrically punctuated One. Six One. “We’re looking to get American craft beers and…
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CUMIN This hip urban Indian spot has the trendoids in a tailspin: no charcuterie, no small plates, no craft beers. 1414 N. Milwaukee Ave.; 773-342-1414 THE PORTAGE Quay Tao, a savvy Tizi Melloul vet, turned Portage Park into an overnight sensation. 3938 N. Central Ave.; 773-853-0779 GILT BAR Now that the restaurant curse at this … Read more
This year’s favorite sweets, found at Paprika, Terzo Piano, The Purple Pig, and Ceres’ Table
Belly Up
This Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., as part of the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival, Logan Square Kitchen (2333 N. Milwaukee Ave.; 773-342-2333), a commercial kitchen and event space, hosts a pop-up restaurant with food from Bill Kim (Urbanbelly, Belly Shack) and Jason Hammel (Lula Cafe, Nightwood). Kim says he’s using the pop-up to field-test food for an inkling of a new restaurant called Country Belly. Kim’s menu:
The chef Graham Elliot Bowles is the first “culinary director” of Lollapalooza, the gargantuan music festival for the masses that seizes downtown Chicago August 6th through 8th. It makes sense: The guy’s a musician, and c’mon, he even has a tattoo that references the Cali punk band Jawbreaker on his forearm…
Modeled after a speakeasy and tucked underneath the popular River North restaurant Gilt Bar (230 W. Kinzie St.), Curio opened in mid-June as a welcome spot for sipping hand-crafted cocktails and admiring some Prohibition-era décor. Our photographer dropped by Friday night and caught a small but stylish crowd lounging on the luxurious leather…
Feel free to remind me of this throughly ungrateful statement sometime in mid-February, but at this very moment I can’t help it: I’ve had it up to here with the heat. I want to take a break from sweating while waiting for a patio seat, sweating while making small talk, sweating while sipping a warmish beer and sweating while eating a link of encased meat…
We at Dish are always on the lookout for dining trends, and an odd one just materialized: restaurateurs with Tizi Melloul on their resumés. After Pork Shoppe and The Portage, the newest restaurant from a Tizi vet is Mia Figlia (5304 W. Devon Ave.; 773-792-8300), which opened July 2nd near the Edgebrook Metra stop…
Seven Questions for Jean-Luc Naret On Tuesday, Michelin announced the November publication of a Chicago guide. We talked with Jean-Luc Naret, the worldwide director of the Michelin guides…
