Are Super Bowl parties better at home or at a bar?
With the Bears' season just a fading memory, Sunday's Super Bowl represents little for Chicago fans beyond an excuse to party. A successful game day involves just the right ratio...
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Are Super Bowl parties better at home or at a bar?
With the Bears' season just a fading memory, Sunday's Super Bowl represents little for Chicago fans beyond an excuse to party. A successful game day involves just the right ratio...
New cocktail bar Billy Sunday opening in Logan Square
Though it was the food menu from Charlie Trotter alum Matthias Merges that first grabbed headlines when Yusho opened in Avondale in 2012, beverage director Alex Bachman's cocktails soon earned...
Review: The Glunz Tavern
Review: The Glunz Tavern 1202 N. Wells St. 312-642-3002Rating: !! (out of four) Give it some time The Glunz Tavern has been gathering 90-plus years worth of dust—that's not quite...
Taste-testing The Violet Hour’s take on malort
It's telling of malort's taste that most people first try the liquor as a dare. Chicago-based Jeppson's has produced the wormwood-based spirit for decades, and it's that familiar yellow-and-red bottle...
Chicago welcomes first Poutine Fest
Poutine may be a Canadian invention, but Chicago certainly has embraced the gravy-and-cheese-topped French fry dish. So much so, in fact, that the city is welcoming its first Poutine Fest...
Jared Rouben to leave Goose Island brewpub for his own food-friendly brewery
Jared Rouben seems to spend just as much time at the farmers market as he does at Goose Island's Clybourn brewpub, where he has been a brewer for four years....
Review: Bub City
Review: Bub City435 N. Clark Street 312-610-4200Rating: !!!! (out of 4) Already hot Remember the original Bub City? I certainly didn't. Rich Melman of the Lettuce Entertain You restaurant group...
2012 bar and restaurant review: Highs, lows and delicious trends
When it comes to adventures in dining and drinking, Chicago definitely delivered this year. Hot chefs expanded their empires with new restaurants. New words made their way into our nightlife...
Cheap date: Andy’s Thai Kitchen
Cheap date: Andy's Thai Kitchen946 W. Wellington Ave. 773-549-7821 Before head chef Andy Aroonrasameruang left it to open Andy's Thai Kitchen, Tac Quick Thai in Lakeview was one of my...