What chefs think of your food shots
What do chefs think about cameras in restaurants? Chefs I spoke to view photography in restaurants as the new normal, and brief annoyances from a camera flash are outweighed by...
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The type rider’s tour
Here comes Maya Stein on her bicycle, gliding below the historic clock tower at Dearborn Station. Stein is a writer and turned 40 in May. She has the lithe figure...
Erwin Drechsler’s restaurant to close July 1
*** 2:10 p.m. UPDATED BELOW WITH AN INTERVIEW WITH DRECHSLER *** Longtime Chicago chef Erwin Drechsler announced in an e-mail to customers that his eponymous Lakeview restaurant would be closing...
Erwin Drechsler’s restaurant to close July 1
*** 2:10 p.m. UPDATED BELOW WITH AN INTERVIEW WITH DRECHSLER *** Longtime Chicago chef Erwin Drechsler announced in an e-mail to customers that his eponymous Lakeview restaurant would be closing...
3 sisters, 25 years, 1 indelible name
How do you run a successful business? First you find an accessible, popular product. Doughnuts. A doughnut is a pretty neat thing. It's a convenient cake made for one, minus...
Poochie’s, your classic Chicago-area grill
Why Poochie's? Of the untold number of Vienna Beef slingers around town, why single out one place in Skokie? If you plotted every Chicago-area hot dog/burger/Italian beef quick-serve on a...
Takashi Yagihashi, Art Smith competing on season four of Top Chef Masters
Takashi Yagihashi, chef of his eponymous Bucktown restaurant and River North's Slurping Turtle, will be competing on the new season of Bravo TV's Top Chef Masters. Takashi will be among...
Takashi Yagihashi, Art Smith competing on season four of Top Chef Masters
Takashi Yagihashi, chef of his eponymous Bucktown restaurant and River North's Slurping Turtle, will be competing on the new season of Bravo TV's Top Chef Masters. Takashi will be among...
Tony Hu adds to Chinatown empire; Spring World to become Lao Yunnan
Tony Hu, Chicago Chinatown empresario, has taken over control of Spring World restaurant and will rename it ... get ready now ... Lao Yunnan. It will become his sixth "Lao"...
Live from the 2012 James Beard Foundation Award
NEW YORK — Observations from a really long evening at Avery Fisher Hall for the 2012 James Beard Foundation Awards. *** Just how long? Chefs serving food at the post-ceremony...