Monica Eng

Traditional Mexican culture and hipster culture have been eyeing each other from opposite ends of 18th Street in Pilsen for years. So it's no surprise that the two have married...

New York restaurateur Francesco Giambelli this week forked over a record $41,000 for a 2.4 pound Italian white truffle, according to auction organizers. We're not sure what Giambelli plans to...

After hearing about the breathtaking Belgian fare in the non-smoking dining room of the Hop Leaf Tavern (5148 N. Clark St.; 773-334-9851), a colleague recently packed up the family and...

This weekend, the Chicago Sun-Times workers will move out of the 47-year-old building that soon will be demolished to make way for Donald Trump's new tower. On Monday, the newspaper...

While dining in London one night, I shocked my English host by innocently announcing that I wanted to take my leftovers home. "Monica," he whispered, clutching my hand for dramatic...

After reading David Foster Wallace's piece about the Maine Lobster Festival--with its painful details on the lobsters' likely excruciating deaths--in August's Gourmet magazine, I didn't feel much like diving into...

There was a time when wine knowledge was the exclusive provenance of the elite, when interacting with sommeliers and servers meant intimidation and immediate capitulation. But these days, when you...

Visitors to the Athens Summer Olympics looking for a fast, sweet, icy jolt can find what they need in a cafe frappe. A frappe is an ingenious foamy Greek iced...