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Tavern-style pizza at Barnaby's of Northbrook

Frozen tavern-style pizzas and Negroni slushies to go: Chicago-style restaurant family meals and kits to pick up now

March 25, 2020 at 2:21 p.m.

You can order a freezer full of Negroni slushies to go because there are no rules anymore. Actually the To-Groni has existed for a few years at Parson's Chicken and...

Once you get the dumplings home, you can boil them, left, or pan-fry, right.

What we’re ordering for pickup today: House-made dumplings from Katy’s

March 21, 2020 at 9:46 p.m.

You may know that Katy's Dumplings is as beloved for their northern-style Chinese noodles as much as the house-made dumplings. The latter though are almost always available frozen to go....

This corned beef sandwich with mustard on rye bread is available at JB's Deli in Gordono's Pharmacy in Chicago.

Corned beef takeout and delivery for St. Patrick’s Day and beyond around Chicago? Yes.

March 17, 2020 at 12:51 p.m.

Where can you get a great corned beef sandwich for takeout or delivery around Chicago right now? Even with the coronavirus dining room closures, a lot of places are open...

The Starbucks Reserve Roastery — seen here in November 2019 — will close indefinitely Tuesday as part of efforts to slow the spread of coronavirus.

Chicago area roasters keep the coffee going

March 21, 2020 at 10:31 a.m.

The world's largest Starbucks, the Reserve Roastery in Chicago, will close indefinitely Tuesday. The move comes after Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker ordered all restaurants and bars across the state to...

Justin Reyes administers a COVID-19 test to Maria Suarez outside Heartland Health Centers in Chicago's Rogers Park neighborhood on July 10, 2020.

Chicago bar and restaurant owners scramble amid unprecedented closing order to stem COVID-19 spread

March 16, 2020 at 1:36 p.m.

Bar and restaurant owners across Illinois lurched into an unprecedented new reality Sunday with mandated closings to dine-in customers for at least two weeks, leaving thousands of small business owners...

Manny's Deli employee Alma Vega delivers food to regular customer Pat Considine Friday morning, March 13, 2020, outside the South Loop restaurant. Manny's is offering curbside pickup in addition to carry out and delivery, for customers concerned about COVID-19.

Is it safe to dine out? Chicago restaurants and health experts weigh in, Pritzker ponders lockdown

March 15, 2020 at 3:29 p.m.

UPDATE: Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker ordered all bars and restaurants across the state to close to dine-in customers effective end of business on Monday until the end of March, he...

Craving: Japanese food — from ramen to soba to yakitori to sushi, we’re eating Chicago’s best dishes in March

March 13, 2020 at 2:44 p.m.

Editor's note: If you have questions about whether it is safe to dine out, see our story here. When it comes to Japanese food in Chicago, it seems like sushi...

The drink section features various flavors of ramune, the popular Japanese soda.

Complete Mitsuwa dining guide: 13 sweet and savory Japanese eats and drinks at Chicago’s best food hall

May 22, 2020 at 2:41 p.m.

Mitsuwa Marketplace has changed a lot since our last dining guide in 2018. The Arlington Heights location of the Japanese American supermarket, a mini-chain founded in California, got a makeover....

Chief O'Neill's Pub & Restaurant prepares for the long St. Patrick's Day weekend. "(We're) hoping to turn a negative into a positive" by plowing ahead with all scheduled activities, says owner Siobhan McKinney.

Green beer will still flow in Chicago despite St. Patrick’s parade cancellations due to coronavirus concerns, but bars expect big losses

March 12, 2020 at 6:26 p.m.

Chief O'Neill's Pub & Restaurant on the Northwest Side has already spent $8,000 on an outdoor tent for Saturday's St. Patrick's Day celebrations. More than a dozen musical acts have...

Intelligentsia Coffee has stopped filling customers' reusual personal coffee cups, travel mugs and other vessels. (Tribune file photo from 2015)

Several Chicago coffee shops stop filling personal cups over coronavirus concerns

March 10, 2020 at 1:24 p.m.

Two more large coffee chains with national reach have joined Starbucks in ceasing to fill customers' travel mugs and in-store ceramic cups due to coronavirus concerns, while some smaller local...

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