Eat this: Sarpino’s Buffalo ranch chicken pizza
Yes, you read it right, Mr. Erudite Food Man thinks Sarpino's offers a pizza worthy of your time. I was never a big fan of the chain, but one pie,...
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The Cheap Eater: Xi’an Cuisine in Chinatown
Xi'an Cuisine, a faintly rank Chinatown hole-in-the-wall my North Shore relatives would never step foot in, is the type of restaurant I adore: a faintly rank Chinatown hole-in-the-wall my North...
Hot Doug’s returns for one day only
Hot Doug's is coming back. One day only. This is not a joke. It's been nearly five months since we saw the last of Doug Sohn, and the insane lines...
Felony Franks granted second chance in Oak Park
Felony Franks, the hot dog stand that employs ex-offenders, is re-opening in Oak Park Thursday. The original restaurant at 229 S. Western Ave. opened in 2009 and became irresistible for...
Chicagoans on list of 2015 James Beard Award semifinalists
With the James Beard Foundation's 25th annual awards taking place in Chicago this year, a number of locals could find themselves standing on the stage of the Civic Opera House...
Alpana Singh’s Seven Lions opens Thursday
Alpana Singh: Living the American dream! "Where else can an Indian who moved here with two boxes 15 years ago now open a restaurant across from the Art Institute?" said...
Is Japanese curry the new ramen?
Matsumoto Seiji, an exceedingly shy, sweater-vested, salt-and-pepper-bearded chef north of 60 years, was tending to his simmering pot of Japanese curry. That might be the most boring sentence you'll read...
Beyond Chicago-style pizza
A look at non-native slices around Chicago: For a city that prides itself on a pizza style with an inch-high stack of cheese and sausage, it's curious that almost every...
Eat this: The Original Meatball Vault
Meatballs: Chances are if you lived in Des Plaines, you've spent some time at Oliveti's, the Italian restaurant run by the Ferrazzuolo family. After it closed in 2012, brothers Anthony...
Bistros may lack hype, but they offer mighty fine dining
Look at the following restaurants. If they were around 20 years ago (and some were), these would have been the Girl & the The Goat, Nightwood, Avec of their day....