If you sit at the counter at Torizen, a Japanese restaurant in Schaumburg that serves quick lunches during the day and izakaya dishes at night, you get quite the show. Amid the burners, ovens, and prep tables lies a tonkatsu station, where cooks bread and fry both chicken and Berkshire pork cutlets to order. They … Read more
The chef talks about his approach to Roman cuisine at the new restaurant.
As you plan your holiday gathering, take note: The snack spread is where parties are made. “Sharing dips and getting down and dirty with it, that’s what makes it fun,” says Chris Jung of Maxwells Trading, which has a whole menu section celebrating “dunks.” Prime example: his whipped ricotta with griddle bread. There’s an instant … Read more
South American eggnog? Chilled Mexican punch? Here are our favorite spins on seasonal cocktails.
Brian Jupiter made his name cooking whole animals at Frontier and the New Orleans classics he grew up with at Ina Mae Tavern — the through line to his cuisine is soul. So it tracks that for the counter-service joint Migos Fine Foods, which he opened in April with Frontier chef de cuisine Azazi Morsi, he created … Read more
The new show, featuring Kevin Pang and Poochie Rollins of The Wieners Circle, explores Chicago’s top burgers.
The city’s most buzzed-about restaurants this month, in order of heat
Our dining editor’s go-to holiday carryout and her favorite Key lime pie.
Plus, 2024 has been the year of the hyphenated steakhouse.
