Over-the-top hot chocolate at Bodega
You’re off your New Year’s resolution to diet at this point, right? Because Bodega’s Mexican hot chocolate is as dramatic a backslide as any out there. Attached to Barrio, DineAmic...
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Truck stop nachos at Lonesome Rose
To paraphrase Meryl Streep in “The Devil Wears Prada,” Mexican food in Logan Square? Groundbreaking. Lonesome Rose, the newest project by restaurant impresarios Land & Sea Dept. (Longman & Eagle,...
Billy Goat Tavern on Michigan Avenue closing but not for long
Three days until Jan. 1, 2018, and another restaurant is closing, but luckily, it’s only for a short stint. Billy Goat Tavern’s Michigan Avenue location is closing temporarily for infrastructure...
Ravenswood’s Ampersand closes
Ampersand, The baiduhai’s 2016 best new neighborhood restaurant recipient, is closing its doors. Chef-owner Darren McGraw, a Charlie Trotter vet, announced the news via an email to patrons of...
Eat This: Nayarit-style snapper at Mariscos Sirena
There’s no shortage of Mexican food in Chicago. From taquerias to cemitas, to birerria to Bayless, the country’s vibrant cuisine is well-represented throughout Chicagoland. That said, when a little known...
Drink boozy, obscure cocktails at moody new bar Golden Teardrops
Death to speakeasies. For a while there, “speakeasy” became the bar world equivalent of that marketing buzzword “curate” and all its forms. Drinking is legal in Chicago, last I checked....
5 things to eat, drink, and do this weekend
Before you don your Christmas best, indulge in being a little merry and bright with these events around town. Unleash your inner bad Santa with some festive parties, or opt...
Forehand Smash breakfast bowl at DropShot Coffee + Snack Bar
The everything-but-the-kitchen-sink food-in-bowls trend is going strong, but it’s always nice when someone throws out a refresh. Take DropShot Coffee + Snacks, located in the almost-too-twee Fieldhouse Jones, a modern...
Drink this: Maple-sage latte tastes like last gasp of autumn
Have you heard? Maple is the newest “it” flavor of the year. Whether or not you’re into trendy flavors like unicorn-everything and PSL this and that — pumpkin spice pizza,...
Brooklyn pizza mecca Roberta’s hosting Pilsen pop-up
Gather round, friends, and let me tell you about the siren song of Roberta’s pizza. As a former Brooklyn dweller, I’ll have the occasional sense memory of the Bushwick pizzeria’s...