Kevin Pang

Labriola Ristorante & Cafe, the downtown Chicago arm of the popular Oak Brook bakery and restaurant, will open on Michigan Avenue Thursday. Six years ago, I wrote about its pretzel-bunned...

News and notes for the food world: One of the more highly anticipated restaurant openings in Chicago this winter season arrives Wednesday. Formento's, described as old-school, red sauce Italian modeled...

New Year's Day was behind us, and for most, it was the first Monday back to the grind. In Des Plaines, some marked the occasion like a boss: downing bottles...

Last week, my colleague Phil Vettel and I unveiled our 10 favorite dishes we ate in Chicago restaurants in 2014. Narrowing the list down to five each was yeoman's work,...

Tony Hu, aka "Mayor of Chinatown," is taking another stab at River North after his Lao 18 went belly up a year ago. Hu's new venture, his seventh named Lao...

Here, in no particular order, are nine of our favorite hot soups worth stepping into the cold to sample. It's cold. We can empathize. This is the dead of winter,...

Once upon a time, Xoco served the finest churros in Chicago, until new kid in town Salero knocked it from its perch. Piped and fried to order, the ephemeral ribbons...

When bread reminds you of cracklins, applause is an appropriate reaction. Charlatan, the West Town pasta house from the Three Aces team, manages to bake focaccia as light and crunchy...