Comparing Xoco's and Cemita Puebla's Pork Sandwiches
Street Smarts: We break down a $12 torta by Rick Bayless and a $6 counterpart by a guy you’ve never heard of
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Pollack’s Dinner at Prairie Fire in 145 Words
As I pushed through the door and heard the buzz at the bar, I thought, Please don’t let Prairie Fire (215 N. Clinton St.; 312-382-8300) be just another scene designed for noise junkies. Phew. It wasn’t bad at all. The crowd was more happy than hipster and never threatened my audio comfort zone. The one-week-old Prairie Grass sib doesn’t break much new ground but keeps its…
Chicago Restaurant Week 2010 Recommendations and Reservation Availability
UPDATED 03.03.10 From February 19th to 28th, The Chicago Convention & Tourism Bureau presented its 3rd annual Chicago Restaurant Week. Did you miss out on your top choice? Don’t pout for long. Based on the week’s wild popularity, several restaurants have granted us an encore performance of their three-course prix fixe menu—$22 at lunch and … Read more
Cibo Matto and Pelago Ristorante: Chicago magazine reviews
A pair of upscale Italian restaurants in glamorous hotels both start in the Old Country—and go in drastically different directions
Weekend Photos: Brody Jenner at Enclave
Not only did the ladies line up outside Enclave on Saturday to see Brody Jenner (the MTV-anointed prince of reality shows from The Hills to Bromance), they observed the night’s recommended-attire memo with gusto. See our photos from the Little Red Dress Valentine’s Day Party below…
Weekend Photos: Small Bar opens in Lincoln Park
If you build it, it will open. After months of renovations and waiting on licenses, Chicago’s third Small Bar, on Fullerton Avenue, launched with relatively little fanfare last week. Our photographer stopped by Saturday night to snap the not-so-small space. Also not so small? The burger, whose Division Street sibling we…
Photos: Best Bars in Chicago
Our gallery of some of the best bars in Chicago
Best Restaurant Bars in Chicago
These ten bars happen to be in restaurants, but they merit some hang time even if you don’t stay for the food
A Beady Bash: Mardi Gras tonight at Double Door, plus an anti-V-Day way to hex your ex
What better place to return a necklace borrowed from a friend than at tonight’s bead-slinging Mardi Gras Ball , hosted by Thrillist at Bucktown’s Double Door? Particularly when the necklace in question is strung with golden skulls whose hinged jaws…
Eggstra, Eggstra
24-7-365-Forever
A 230-seat all-night diner downtown: Really? “Yes,” says Peter Sakoufakis, the owner of Eggsperience (35 W. Ontario St.; 312-870-6773). “We opened Monday morning [February 8th] at 6 a.m., and we’re never closing after that. We’re throwing away the key.” The last two inhabitants of the bright River North corner space—Masck and Graze—were…