Kevin Pang

Andrew Brochu is the new chef at Graham Elliot's flagship restaurant. Brochu's hiring, which will be announced to staff this afternoon at the Gallery District restaurant, is the clearest sign...

2010 was the year Chicagoland witnessed its barbecue boom, when nearly a dozen smoked meats purveyors opened from Wheaton to Rogers Park. Among the more successful and highly-received restaurants is...

2010 was the year Chicagoland witnessed its barbecue boom, when nearly a dozen smoked meats purveyors opened from Wheaton to Rogers Park. Among the more successful and highly-received restaurants is...

Ten weeks into these Top Chef recaps, as I once again sputter out a few hundred words on the show, I find myself writing less about the competition itself and...

Ten weeks into these Top Chef recaps, as I once again sputter out a few hundred words on the show, I find myself writing less about the competition itself and...

I'll keep this short. Only three things of note happened in this week's 75-minute supersized episode of "Top Chef." First was the increasingly shameful and maddening product placement. I turned...

Do you buy into the idea of karma? I don't. I'll tell you what I do believe: Television works best when packages come delivered tied up with perfect bows. Because...