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Nico Osteria chef Erling Wu-Bower serves crispy, fried Brussels sprout leaves, creamy stracciatella cheese and burnt lemon honey on a nice slice of toast. It's topped with pesto, chopped hazelnuts that almost taste like chocolate and grated Parmesan cheese.

Eat this: Brussels sprouts sandwich

June 15, 2018 at 4:25 p.m.

On paper, it sounds like some cruel punishment for misbehaving children. So yes, our waiter had to talk me into this. But what arrived was a welcome surprise from the...

In Palatine, Ramen Shinchan's tonkotsu bowl is perhaps the finest ramen in Chicagoland.

2015 is Chicago’s year of ramen

June 16, 2018 at 5:48 p.m.

Congratulations, fellow Chicagolanders! We have achieved peak ramen status and it only took, what, a decade? Doesn't it feel super? Perhaps you remember when the mere mention of ramen brought...

Chain Reaction: Arby’s smokehouse brisket, Wendy’s ghost pepper fries

June 15, 2018 at 5:47 p.m.

This month, we look at fast food chains making some bold claims. Arby's claims barbecue authenticity by saying they're smoking brisket 13 hours in a Texas smokehouse. Wendy's says they're...

Nando's, a peri peri chicken chain, is opening three locations in Chicago in 2015.

Peri peri chicken chain Nando’s to open May 20

June 18, 2018 at 7:10 a.m.

UPDATE: Nando's West Loop location, 953 W. Randolph St., will open next Wednesday. I've only peripherally heard of peri peri chicken, and didn't taste my first until two months ago...

Avec expands to lunch service starting May 20

June 15, 2018 at 5:39 p.m.

One of Chicago's toughest restaurant seats will now expand to lunch service. Avec — doing Mediterranean small plates with shared communal seating in the West Loop before 1) Mediterranean small...

Esquire food writer Josh Ozersky speaks at a 2015 Meatopia event in Miami Beach.

Food writer dies: Josh Ozersky had ‘vulnerability and boisterous excess’

May 22, 2019 at 7:54 p.m.

Esquire magazine food writer Josh Ozersky, who was found dead Monday while in Chicago for the James Beard Foundation Awards, was remembered by colleagues Tuesday for his strong opinions on...

Well-known food writer Josh Ozersky found dead in Chicago

May 22, 2019 at 7:54 p.m.

Josh Ozersky, a rabble-rousing food writer for Esquire magazine whose prose reflected the pleasures and excesses of his eating adventures, was found dead Monday morning at a hotel on the...

Chicago takes center stage at 2015 James Beard Awards

June 15, 2018 at 6:21 p.m.

Chicago played the genial host city of the James Beard Foundation Awards, capping a weekend in which the nation's restaurant elites descended upon and ate their way through town. It...

An order of hot dogs and fries comes out of the kitchen.

Hot Doug’s resurrected with two-day summer festival

June 15, 2018 at 6:05 p.m.

Last we heard from Doug Sohn, the sausage king of Chicago (sorry Abe Froman), the former chef/owner of Hot Doug's was content living a life in repose. Aside from a...

Chef Grant Achatz (left) and Nick Kokonas reflect on the first 10 years of their influential restaurant, Alinea.

Alinea at 10: An interview with Grant Achatz & Nick Kokonas

June 15, 2018 at 6:35 p.m.

May 4 will mark the day Alinea, Chicago's most important and consequential restaurant, turns 10 years old. We consider our choice of adjectives carefully. Alinea is important and consequential in...

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