Ryan McCaskey to Open a Fine-Dining Restaurant in the South Loop
Generation Gap
The South Loop teems with newly built condo skyscrapers, but somehow, fancy restaurants have materialized much more slowly…
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Weekend Photos: SantaCon Chicago 2010 at LaSalle Power Co.
We learned a few things about Santa over the weekend:
• He gets carded, just like everyone else.
• He and the Easter Bunny really are friends.
• He’s not picky about beer: Miller, Heineken, Amstel Light. Whatever. He’ll drink it…
Feeding the Jingle-Bell Jiggle: A First Take on the New Moe’s Cantina in River North
It’s a typical bar-opening tale, but the staff at Moe’s Cantina—a brand-new River North sequel to the Wrigleyville original—tells it as wide-eyed as anyone: “We only got our liquor license literally, like, two hours ago. You should have seen this place at 10:30 a.m. You’d never have believed we were opening tonight!”…
(Second) Story Time: One Infamous Night at the Mag Mile’s Only Gay Dive
Everyone who’s ever been to Second Story (157 E. Ohio St.; 312-923-9536) has a Second Story story. The spot—a gay dive just “75 steps from Michigan Avenue,” as its matchbooks point out, and one of Chicago magazine’s 100 Best Bars—just seems to engender a certain sort of late-night bedlam…
Dish Flash: Scott Harris to Open Four New Restaurants in the Next Two Weeks
Loyal Dish readers have probably noticed that Scott Harris, the owner or partner in something like two dozen restaurants, including all the Francesca’s locations, tends to have a lot of news. The red phone rang again this week, bringing Harris’s report of four new restaurants, three opening December 14th and one December 8th.
Chicago Bars that Feel like Home
We Asked, You Answered: 5 Cozy-as-Grandma’s Bars
Watershed Bar Opens in River North
TO GRANDMOTHER’S HOUSE WE GO: Will Pops’ basement redo keep a happy-hour crowd up past its bedtime?
Bluette Opens on the North Shore
Call of the Mild
David Richards, the chef/owner of Sweets & Savories, opens a new place in the northern suburbs today…
The Hot List: 10 places everyone's talking about and dining at in December (in order of heat)
Chicago’s most-buzzed-about restaurants this month
Black Wednesday at Old Town Social
“Golden” might have been a more apt adjective for last Wednesday—AKA Black Wednesday, the biggest bar night of the year—at Old Town Social…