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Balsan’s Paris-Brest at the Elysian Hotel

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Its name sounds like some kind of saucy Moulin Rouge burlesque, but this classic French pastry actually celebrates a 750-mile bicycle race from Paris to Brest and back. Balsan’s rich take nails it. Alissa Wallers and Andrew Johnson, the Elysian’s pastry chefs, painstakingly fashion a choux pastry ring to look like a bike wheel, then … Read more

Free-corkage nights at Chicago BYOs

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The concept of a corkage fee began as a small convenience payment. Restaurants are within their rights to charge for opening a bottle that isn’t their own, but with the fees that some restaurants charge for the service, it feels more like legalized extortion. We asked around about the going rate, and, much to our … Read more

Happy New Year

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Dish is taking the week off, and would like to wish everyone a happy new year. Penny and her new Dish partner, Graham Meyer will be back next week with all the foodie news.

Small Beer: With liquor taxes up and incomes down, Illinois drinking habits change

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RED SHIFT: Did the recession make drinkers spend more, drowning their sorrows, or spend less, saving their pennies? Neither, really—the big change was decreased beer sales and increased sales of wine and liquor. Here’s how much alcohol Illinois distributors have sold to retailers, bars, and restaurants between 2007 and June 2009, measured in gallons.  Hard … Read more