Emily Nunn

"Saving and Spending" may be the official theme of this year's Chicago Humanities Festival, but our quick peeks at some opening-weekend highlights might be better titled "comedy and tragedy." From...

"What is soul?" the great Ray Charles once said. "It's like electricity--we don't really know what it is, but it's a force that can light a room." Soul food, however,...

Koryo, a dark and Spartan three-month-old Korean cafe in Lakeview, works in mysterious ways. Very mysterious. For a long time, our table was barren as the desert. Neither water, nor...

As a chef, you have to have a certain amount of confidence to name a pork chop after a wool sweater (the Gansey) or a lobster dish the Galway Hooker...

In the parlance of hard-boiled detective novels, a beautiful woman is often referred to as a tomato--in other words, ripe for picking. It makes perfect sense: The tomato, which the...

The first thing you need to know about Cafe le Coq, a lovely, classic French bistro in Oak Park, is that the 35-year-old chef Steve Chiappetti (he of Mango, Grapes,...

The minute you take a seat at Tweet, a charming new Uptown breakfast/brunch spot, a waiter fills your coffee cup (with socially responsible Fair Trade Organic Intelligentsia coffee) and will...

"Lincoln Park . . . Your Perfect Urban Oasis," announces a huge sign across from the sidewalk cafe at Dunlays on Clark. It's not an entirely apt description of this...

"Where can I find good German food in North America?" a person with the Internet moniker ethernetWeasel inquired on a dining message board recently. "Aha, a trick question," someone shot...

Hey, Phil: Word on the floor is that I've been "chosen" to cover Taste of Chicago. That name fairly shrieks "street fair" to me, words that conjure some of my...