What You Need to Know About the Chicago Dining Scene This Week By Carrie Schedler New trend: High-end restaurants doing casual reinventions. Read more
DMK Will Open a Fried Chicken Spot in Evanston This Fall By Penny Pollack and Matt Pollock Arlen's Chicken will open in early November. Read more
Spiaggia Alum Sarah Grueneberg Will Open Monteverde This Fall By Penny Pollack Think rustic-modern Italian at the West Loop spot. Read more
Gigi’s Cupcakes Is Coming to Wilmette By Penny Pollack and Matt Pollock Starting October 28, you can get cookie dough cupcakes from the self-proclaimed largest cupcake chain in the country. Read more
Black Iron Tavern Wants You to Confess Your Sins over Cosmos By Peter Ranvestel and Carrie Schedler Order one of the West Town bar's straightforward cocktails and offer up a secret in the confessional phone booth. Read more
What to Eat and Drink in Chicago This Week By Carrie Schedler Oodles of pumpkin, plenty of beer, and more. Read more
Hash Has an Easy-Breezy Brunch in Wicker Park By Carly Boers With, you guessed it, a lot of variations on hash. Read more
Lincoln Park Gets a Brand-New Pizza Spot By Penny Pollack and Matt Pollock The replacement for Via Carducci keeps it in the family. Read more
Watch Sable’s John Stanton Make the Park Slope The River North bar focuses on its selection of brown spirits, and Rittenhouse Rye Bottled-in-Bond comes into play with this cocktail. Read more
