Nick Kindelsperger

The baiduhai's annual dining awards are back, and (if you'll pardon the hubris) better than ever. First and foremost: We've decided that calling our yearly celebration the Dining Awards...

When he's not hosting his popular television food segments, first for ABC 7 and now NBC 5, Steve Dolinsky has been focusing most of his attention for the past five...

Brendan Sodikoff doesn't create restaurants; he fashions escapes from reality. Whether it's a moody steakhouse that feels like a fever dream of a French bistro (Bavette's Bar & Boeuf) or...

One of Chicago's most influential Japanese restaurants is closing Friday. Owned by Helen Mita and her son, Brian, Izakaya Mita expanded the scope of Japanese restaurants in Chicago when it...

Most people wouldn't even know where to begin to create a dessert with black-eyed peas and smoked ham hocks, but that wasn't a problem for Brian Jupiter, chef and owner...

Just west of Chinatown, the historic neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, a strangely shiny building has landed along a row of old brick warehouses. Jefferson Square takes its...

I never made it to Sabor a Jalisco at the corner of Belmont and Karlov avenues before it closed around five years ago. That's on me. Had I done so,...

Few dishes spread as rapidly in Chicago as quesabirria tacos, a specialty born in Tijuana, Mexico, did in 2020. But Tijuana has more to teach us about tacos than just...

I sat spellbound while my server flipped a tiny slab of 45-day dry-aged rib-eye on the tabletop grill in front of me. As the edges of the meat sizzled from...