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Restaurant news: My Pi closing last pizzeria in Bucktown after 54 years of deep dish By Louisa Kung Liu Chu May 27, 2025 at 4:27 p.m. Plus the Poperoni in more pizza news, among openings around Chicago, and the closing of...
This Chicago chef just won season two of Food Network’s ’24 in 24: Last Chef Standing’ By Zareen Syed May 26, 2025 at 10:56 a.m. Food Network’s latest high-stakes cooking competition series brought together 24 chefs from across the country...
Las Vegas luring millennials, Gen-Z visitors with pool parties, craft cocktails, influencer experiences By Las Vegas Review-Journal May 23, 2025 at 11:35 a.m. Nearly half of Las Vegas' visitors last year were millennials or Gen-Z, according to the...
Buona taking Italian beef, Original Rainbow Cone to Gurnee and beyond in multistate expansion By Robert Channick May 25, 2025 at 2:02 p.m. Buona, the homegrown Italian beef chain, officially opened its 32nd Chicago-area restaurant this week in...
Memorial Day 2025: 15 restaurant and bar specials in Chicago, including seafood boils and drag brunches By Samantha Nelson May 22, 2025 at 1:13 p.m. Memorial Day marks the unofficial start of summer, but also offers the opportunity to mark...
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Restaurant review: Parachute HiFi flies high with creative Korean American food and cocktails in Chicago By Louisa Kung Liu Chu May 20, 2025 at 5:00 a.m. The creative Korean American restaurant and cocktail bar in Avondale retains its original Michelin-starred DNA,...
Column: ‘Deep Dish’ tells the stories behind the Malnati pizza empire, including some difficult ones By Rick Kogan May 20, 2025 at 5:59 p.m. “Deep Dish: Inside the First 50 Years of Lou Malnati's Pizza” is a surprising book...
Kid Rock’s Nashville restaurant sends staff home to avoid ICE raid: report By Muri Assuncao May 16, 2025 at 1:02 p.m. Managers at Kid Rock’s Nashville restaurant told staff to go home on a busy Saturday...
More than 1,000 Starbucks baristas go on strike to protest new dress code By Dee-Ann Durbin May 14, 2025 at 7:03 p.m. More than 1,000 Starbucks baristas at 75 U.S. stores have gone on strike since Sunday...