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Zeeshan Shah, left, and Yoshi Yamada, owners of Superkhana International restaurant in Logan Square, on March 17, 2021. They have decided to remained closed for indoor service, because they don't think it is safe yet.

Not trusting government guidance, some restaurant owners choose not to reopen for indoor service until they think it’s safe: ‘We had to take the decision-making into our own hands’

March 19, 2021 at 3:09 p.m.

After three months shuttered to the world, Chicago bars and restaurants were allowed to reopen for indoor service in late January at 25% capacity. Three weeks later, the number was...

The outside of Ina Mae Tavern & Packaged Goods Thursday, Sept. 27, 2018, in the Wicker Park neighborhood of Chicago.

Chicago Restaurant Week preview: 8 special menus we can’t wait to taste

March 19, 2021 at 5:03 p.m.

Here's a taste of something nice in 2021: Chicago Restaurant Week will make its return — and in an adaptable form! Diners will still get the typical Restaurant Week setup:...

Jeremy Joyce sits inside Luella's Southern Kitchen in Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood on Friday, March 12, 2021. Joyce's website, Black People Eats, links the public with Black-owned restaurants in the area.

Critics’ Choice Takeout Awards: Chicago’s best chefs, industry innovators and community champions of 2020

March 18, 2021 at 9:45 a.m.

After a year that has meant nothing but change, let's talk about what hasn't. People still find comfort and joy in food and dining, and the best and brightest still...

Virtue chef de cuisine Damarr Brown at the Hyde Park restaurant on Saturday, March 13, 2021.

Critics’ Choice Takeout Awards: Chicagoland’s essential hospitality workers — all of them — are our Person of the Year

March 16, 2021 at 9:45 a.m.

This year, the baiduhai adapted its annual Dining Awards to encompass all the pandemic-wrought changes that affected the hospitality industry. For the 2020 Takeout Awards, we present what's traditionally...

You be the critic: Vote for your favorite restaurants in the 2020 Readers’ Choice Takeout Awards

March 24, 2021 at 12:58 p.m.

Even in a pandemic, it's hard to slow Chicago down. New restaurants still opened up and delighted us — and in increasingly innovative, coronavirus-safe ways. We dove into takeout containers...

A worker waits on a carryout order at Manny's Deli on South Jefferson Street in Chicago on April 22, 2020.

A day of free sandwiches? If Manny’s Deli gets 30 days of perfect mask wearing, apparently so.

March 15, 2021 at 1:14 p.m.

Manny's Cafeteria & Delicatessen is staking a mountain of free corned beef — and pastrami and salami and, yes, even turkey if you must — on keeping that mask on...

City investigators cite 8 businesses for COVID-19 violations

March 12, 2021 at 9:40 a.m.

Chicago investigators cited eight establishments last weekend for COVID-19 violations, officials said. The citations resulted from 73 investigations by the city's Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection between March...

St. Patrick's Day preparations at Butch McGuire's in the Gold Coast on March 11, 2021.

One year after the St. Patrick’s party raged, Chicago bars say they can’t risk bending the rules: ‘The challenging part will be turning people away’

March 12, 2021 at 7:02 a.m.

Masks and social distancing are about to meet their stiffest test to date: St. Patrick's Day. The booziest weekend of the year for many Chicago bars will run headlong into...

A sign in the window announces a reopening plan.

Waking from pandemic hibernation, Hopleaf bar sets reopening date after sinking $100,000 into new windows, 64 taps and refreshed menu

March 24, 2021 at 8:45 a.m.

The legendary Hopleaf bar will reopen this spring as something different than what the COVID-19 pandemic closed last fall. Some changes will be out of view, such as the new...

This May 7, 2020, file photo, shows a Dunkin' Donuts at the Greater Pittsburgh International Airport in Moon, Pa. The Dunkin' doughnuts and coffee chain confirmed it's held talks to be taken private by a private equity firm, sending shares rocketing to an all-time high at the opening bell Monday, Oct. 26, 2020.(AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar, File)

City shuts down makeshift club in a home in Old Town, cites 6 businesses for COVID-19 violations

March 5, 2021 at 12:42 p.m.

City investigators shut down a private club in an Old Town apartment building last weekend that violated COVID-19 restrictions. Chicago's Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection said 97 people...

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