In the first bout of round two, a judge weighs the importance of pure Chicago-ness versus undiluted greatness.
Author Archives: Mara Shalhoup
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Best Bar with a Fish Tank
The fish seem as content and delighted as the resident punch drinkers.
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Best Migration to the South Side
It’s no longer an exemplary restaurant for Hyde Park. It’s an exemplary restaurant, period.
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Best High-End Meatball
Risk of grandiosity aside, let me say that I can’t imagine a more perfect meaty orb.
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Best 15-Minute Brunch
While it’s usually worth sitting at a table and waiting for one of the open-faced biscuit sandwiches, your condition prevents such a delay.
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Best Real Estate Agent in a Tough Market
Examining a home with him is a learning experience even if you think you already know your fair share about vintage fixer-uppers.
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The light is winning (we think): A True Detective recap
We’ll miss you Rust and Marty.
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At Paul Kahan’s Nico Osteria, two worlds collide with a bang
At Paul Kahan’s Nico Osteria, two worlds collide.
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A10, the much-anticipated Hyde Park restaurant, is for now a B minus
A10, Matthias Merges’s much-anticipated Hyde Park restaurant, gets a B minus for now.
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Three Dots and a Dash: Morse code for bliss
Paul McGee’s tiki bar is an island paradise amid the River North flotsam.
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It’s all over now, baby blue: A Breaking Bad chat
Three Reader staff members discuss one of the most heavily anticipated finales in television history.
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Riot Fest day two: White-haired front men and a little puke
No blood today, but there was vomit.
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Breaking Bad engages warp drive
Two Reader staffers discuss the return of Breaking Bad.