The Cheap Eater: Good Stuff Eatery
The first time Spike Mendelsohn swooped into Chicagoans' hearts and minds was seven years ago, when the frequently pork pie-hatted chef sauntered to a fifth-place finish on "Top Chef" (that...
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We here at the baiduhai have only ever wanted to enrich, to inform, to help the citizenry of this great city solve dire problems. So we turned our attention...
Memphis favorite Gus’s Fried Chicken to land in West Loop
Gus's Fried Chicken, the beloved Memphian fried chicken restaurant that's grown to cult status in the mid-South region, is opening in Chicago this year, and a location has finally been...
Chicago to host James Beard Awards for two more years
In an unexpected announcement, the James Beard Foundation said Thursday that Chicago will host its annual awards gala for two additional years starting in 2016. Through negotiations with Mayor Rahm...
Graham Elliot named ‘culinary curator’ for NFL draft festival
The 2015 NFL draft will be held in Chicago, and as part of the three-day event April 30-May 2, a section of Grant Park will be turned into a music...
Go carbs go: New ballpark foods at Wrigley Field and The Cell
Wherever your baseball allegiances lie, take heart: There's never been an argument that a char-grilled hot dog and a cold one couldn't solve. Unless, that is, the argument is about...
Chop Chop vandalism hearing delayed until April 28
A court hearing over a vandalism case in Lakeview — where a woman smeared lipstick on a restaurant window because she found its name objectionable — was postponed on Tuesday...
Chef Mike Sheerin eyes Hyde Park for dumpling house Packed
In the last year, Chicago food lovers have pegged Hyde Park as the next restaurant hotspot, the next West Loop, carrying with it the connotation that it's a dining neighborhood...
Chop Chop Chinaman: Catchy restaurant name or ‘hate crime’?
Feb. 17 was an otherwise quiet evening for Chicago Police District 19 in Lakeview East. The crime incidents report showed a motor vehicle theft in the 300 block of West...
The Cheap Eater: Yassa in Bronzeville
Some of the better egg rolls this purebred Asian sampled happened at, of all places, a Senegalese restaurant in Bronzeville called Yassa. What's more beguiling is that when I dipped...