Louisa Kung Liu Chu – Page 12

Kenny Yang, owner of Gangnam Food Hall and Gangnam Market, the attached grocery store, is seen at the food hall at 1001 W. Chicago Ave. in Chicago on April 30, 2024. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Review: Gangnam Food Hall isn’t Korean, but serves Asian American style and substance in Chicago

May 8, 2024 at 6:13 a.m.

Gangnam Food Hall serves fantastical Asian American Chicagoan food and drinks with surprising style and substance. Despite its name, it is in fact not Korean. Even though there’s a bulgogi...

An ensaymada along side an ube horchata drink, at Umaga Bakehouse, a new modern Filipino bakery, in Chicago, on April 25, 2024. (Antonio Perez/baiduhai)

Ube horchata, and bread is sumply ensaymada

Restaurant news: Umaga Bakehouse, a reimagined Filipino bakery, among 9 openings in Chicago

April 29, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

Umaga Bakehouse celebrated its grand opening with lines out the door and sold out shelves in the Mayfair neighborhood on April 20.

Aiperi Adylbek Kyzy, holds her 9-month-old son, Aikol Toichubekova, while waiting to place an order at the butcher counter on April 20, 2024, at Farm City Meat Halal & Grocers in Chicago. (Vincent Alban/baiduhai)

Grocery deals: The Tribune food team’s favorite money-saving markdowns at Chicagoland stores

April 24, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

A round up of a few grocery store items that are good deals that are worth the drive.

Akemi Almeida, right, laughs as Lucas Ewing, left, smokes marijuana, during baked bingo night on April 9, 2024, in the consumption lounge at OKAY Cannabis Dispensary and West Town Bakery in Wheeling. (Vincent Alban/baiduhai)

Guide: At OKAY Cannabis consumption lounge near Chicago, you can have your cake balls and smoke cannabis too

April 15, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

OKAY Cannabis and West Town Bakery in Wheeling is the first and only consumption lounge where you can have your cake balls and smoke cannabis too, all with a focus...

Chefs Johnny Clark and Beverly Kim pose for a portrait with records in their collection at the currently closed Parachute restaurant on North Elston Avenue on March 28, 2024, in Chicago. The chef-partners plan to open a new restaurant in the same space called Parachute Hi-Fi later this summer. (John J. Kim/baiduhai)

Parachute Hi-Fi will bring bing bread back to Chicago with a Korean pizza puff

April 1, 2024 at 12:16 p.m.

James Beard award-winning chefs Johnny Clark and Beverly Kim hope to open the new high fidelity music bar and restaurant by June or July in the same space in the...

Mike Satinover, chef and owner of Akahoshi Ramen, at his restaurant on March 28, 2024, in Chicago. (Vincent Alban/baiduhai)

Review: Akahoshi Ramen, beautiful bowls by Ramen Lord in Logan Square

April 1, 2024 at 12:21 p.m.

Open since late last fall, there still seems to be a perpetual line outside. It’s a measure of the reputation within.

The dining room at Tre Dita on March 18, 2024. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Restaurant news: Tre Dita in Lakeshore East among 9 notable openings and closings in Chicago and the suburbs

March 25, 2024 at 5:00 a.m.

“Tre Dita means three fingers and it refers to the measurement of the bistecca fiorentina,” said chef Evan Funke. “Anything under three fingers thick is considered carpaccio in the Tuscan...

The ozonboron/sturgeon course at Maman Zari restaurant in Chicago’s Albany Park neighborhood is seen on Wednesday, March 13, 2024. (Terrence Antonio James/baiduhai)

Review: Maman Zari translates Iranian American tastes to a Persian escape in Chicago

March 18, 2024 at 4:16 p.m.

$85 for nine seasonal courses is a shockingly low price in the world of tasting menus that typically start at triple digits.

Dan Pashman, the author of “Anything's Pastable: 81 Inventive Pasta Recipes for Saucy People.” (Dan Liberti)

Cookbook news: ‘Anything’s Pastable’ by The Sporkful’s Dan Pashman, plus Nancy’s Pizza book in the works

March 11, 2024 at 3:39 p.m.

Dan Pashman not only invented a new pasta shape just a few years ago, now he’s coming for your pasta sauce. He’s best known as the creator and host of...

The smoked corned beef sandwich at John's Food & Wine, in Lincoln Park on Feb. 28, 2024. (E. Jason Wambsgans/baiduhai)

26 of the best corned beef sandwiches in Chicago and the suburbs, including a stunning option from John’s Food & Wine

March 13, 2024 at 8:35 a.m.

When it comes to corned beef, there are two schools, the old piled-high style of sandwiches, and the new style usually with better ingredients and technique, but more modest in...

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