Carrie Schedler

The actual Beard Awards are finally here! Once they're done, look for brandy, BBQ, and brunch.

There's a new contender for hottest dining corner in the city.

Unless you're driven indoors by rain (as we were this weekend), their patio complete with bocce courts will be hard to beat.

It's an all things James Beard Awards edition!

Barbecue, tacos in bags, and the Lollapalooza of food.

The beer garden is a particularly fine place to pass time before and after but especially during a Cubs game.

Including Chicago Chef Week, an artisan food fest, and one big pig-out.

How a kid from rural Illinois transformed the tiny Slagel Family Farm into the hottest meat purveyor in Chicago

You cannot go wrong with breakfast meats from a place that doubles as a butcher shop.

And there's a big milestone coming in 2016.