Chicago's Best Chefs
Meet the city’s foremost kitchen legends, the aces, and the innovators.
Meet the city’s foremost kitchen legends, the aces, and the innovators.
Having learned their lessons from California, two Chicago treasures face off with two Bay Area icons
As a go-anywhere, drink-anything nightlife reporter, I’ve pretty much seen it all. But when I entered the 12,000-square-foot Nuevo Latino restaurant-lounge DeLaCosta (465 E. Illinois St.), I was floored.
Who knew wordplay could be chic? Wicker Park gets its first bar with a palindrome for a name. PLUS: Two more new spots
Get outta town with this smart new travel gear.
Three new suburban glamour spots have city folks programming the GPS to points west and north.
Nightspotting gets into spy mode for The Underground, Billy Dec and Co.’s latest club. PLUS: More new and soon-to-open spots
For March, Nagrant chats with Rick Bayless, the king of regional Mexican throughout the United States, on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Frontera Grill (445 N. Clark St.; 312-661-1434).
Budget Beat, Small Plates, Spin, Barbecue
Our nightlife correspondent parties like a rock-star (Rock Star: Supernova, that is) and still manages to report back on the new bar Pharmacy. PLUS: Celebrity Beat