Category: Food & Drink

Opening Remarks

Behind the Bar

The Desserts Berghoff Flourless chocolate cake Brett’s Banana ice cream cake with bittersweet chocolate sauce Cafe Absinthe Mexican chocolate cake with coffee ice cream and coconut sauce Cafe Selmarie Flourless orange-chocolate cake Erwin Bittersweet chocolate pot de creme with a homemade chocolate chip cookie and whipped cream Green Dolphin Street Chocolate-spearmint parfait Hudson Club Double-chocolate […]

In the Kitchen

The Grub Game

First Impressions/ She She’s Nicole Parthemore and Dana Hechtman

All Over the Map

The Cooking Life

Laura Frankel and Dennis Wasko started experimenting with fine kosher cuisine in 1997. Frankel had kept a kosher kitchen at home for ten years and Wasko had never set foot in one, but both found the challenge of working within the strict culinary restrictions inspiring. They started a small catering company, testing the market for […]

Atwood Cafe’s Heather Terhune

Opening Remarks

The Grub Game

Not Nog

Echo, another eclectic Wicker Park place, opened recently in the former Starfish space with chef Dirk Flanigan (of just-closed Madam B) running the kitchen. Starfish owner Sean Herron (who also owns Meritage) gave the room a cool yet comfortable new look with cast concrete tables, an aluminum bar, gray hardwood floors, and dusty blue walls. […]

Joel Nickson had a simple mission: to create a neighborhood hangout that served healthy, affordable southern cooking. Though raised in New Mexico and New Jersey, he learned to love the south through visits to his grandparents in North Carolina. At age 15 he ran away from home to live and work for a year and […]