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Critic’s Choice Dining Awards: These are Chicago’s best chefs of 2019, according to Phil Vettel

March 4, 2020 at 9:29 p.m.

The baiduhai's Critic's Choice Dining Awards honor the chefs who made 2019 so deliciously memorable. The lineup of excellence begins with our Chef of the Year, Erick Williams, and...

Michael Taus joins Gemstone group, will oversee Papa Cenar

March 3, 2020 at 1:58 p.m.

Michael Taus has been named culinary director of Branko Palikuca's Gemstone Cafe Group, which includes restaurants Amber Cafe (Westmont), Citrine (Oak Park) and Topaz (Burr Ridge). The chef's first order...

"The Book of St. John" from the iconic British restaurant St. John by chef Fergus Henderson and partner Trevor Gulliver.

Five questions for Fergus Henderson, the chef of iconic St. John restaurant in London

March 2, 2020 at 10:08 a.m.

Chef Fergus Henderson, who, with partner Trevor Gulliver, created the trailblazing London restaurant St. John, is in Chicago this week promoting his just-released "The Book of St. John" cookbook and...

Craving: Spicy food — our heat-seeking mission in Chicago restaurants

March 2, 2020 at 4:28 p.m.

We eat spicy food to warm us up in cold weather, to make us sweat and cool us down in the heat of summer. We add chiles to foods to...

Chef Jason Hammel of Lula Cafe, was named among the semifinalists for Best Chef: Great Lakes. He is pictured at Marisol, where he is also chef.

James Beard Awards names Tzuco and Boka restaurants and 15 chefs among Chicago’s 2020 semifinalists

February 27, 2020 at 10:59 a.m.

Boka, the flagship restaurant for the Boka Group, and Tzuco, Carlos Gaytan's acclaimed Mexican newcomer, were two of the biggest Chicago names among the James Beard Foundation Restaurant and Chef...

Gadabout, 5212 N. Clark St., is part of Andersonville Restaurant Week.

5 more restaurant weeks — La Grange, Elmwood Park, Andersonville and others — are just getting started

February 21, 2020 at 9:00 a.m.

Both Chicago Restaurant Week and Chicago Black Restaurant Week are over. But more restaurant week promotions, in three suburbs and two Chicago neighborhoods, are just beginning — including a first...

The twice-fried chicken wings with honey, lemon and smoked chilies at the Stolp Island Social restaurant in downtown Aurora on Feb. 19, 2020.

Review: Amy Morton’s latest restaurant fits downtown Aurora like a comfortable shoe

February 20, 2020 at 1:34 p.m.

Amy Morton has two successful restaurants in Evanston, so I was more than a bit surprised when she opted to base her third restaurant, three-month-old Stolp Island Social, in west...

The bar at Dutch and Doc's restaurant, with the addition of a 30-foot oyster bar, will be the focal point of the new Swift & Sons Tavern & Oyster Bar, opening March 6.

New oyster bar opening across from Wrigley in time for Cubs’ season

February 20, 2020 at 11:18 a.m.

The Wrigleyville restaurant Dutch & Doc's (3600 N. Clark St.) has spent part of the baseball off-season hosting a few pop-ups, such as the last look at Balena (the Lincoln...

Champagne cocktail for Valentine's Day styled by Lisa Schumacher at Tribune's studio in Chicago on Wednesday, January 28, 2015.
(Zbigniew Bzdak/baiduhai)

Last-minute Valentine’s Day: Tables in Chicago area are available, going fast

February 13, 2020 at 5:49 p.m.

Happy Valentine's Day, fellow procrastinators! For those of you without reservations for Friday and/or Saturday night, don't despair. First of all, Valentine's Day is notorious for no-shows, and Friday's single-digit...

Bucatini pasta is tossed with pecorino cheese, black pepper and guanciale.

Purple reign: In its new digs, Jimmy Bannos has turned The Purple Pig into one of the city’s essential restaurants

February 13, 2020 at 5:32 p.m.

I find it difficult to believe that The Purple Pig has been around for a decade; it seems so much fresher to me. Nevertheless, it's true: Jimmy Bannos Jr.'s lively,...

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