With a projector, a screen, chairs, and drinks, Whiner Beer Co.’s garden will turn into a moviegoing oasis for south-side filmmakers.
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Raise your glass to Lucky when Laos to Your House returns to Monday Night Foodball
On Saturday nights, Lucky Seuamsothabandith kicks back with his buddies, drinking Henny and Perrier. There’s always a spread on the table, and it invariably includes yum seen, the minty, chili-flecked beef salad with red onions, lime, fish sauce, and toasted rice powder that’s the ideal Lao drinking food. “I try to outlast them,” says his […]
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From the finest kitchen scraps in the city, Wilson Bauer summons the best worm poop
For more than a year, Flour Power has produced almost no food waste. It all gets tossed into two large Amazon courier totes Wilson Bauer stores just to the right of his toilet.
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Nando’s gives away free meals at all U.S. restaurants
On July 18th, Nando’s celebrates Mandela Day. The South African restaurant gives customers free flame-grilled PERi-PERi chicken in exchange for donations of back-to-school supplies On July 18, Nando’s PERi-PERi will honor its South African roots by celebrating Mandela Day, in recognition of the South African leader and anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela. To commemorate Mandela’s fight […]
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It’s a brand-new, late summer schedule for Monday Night Foodball
If you haven’t binged the second season of The Bear yet, skip ahead to the fifth paragraph for news of the new late summer schedule for Monday Night Foodball, the Reader’s weekly chef pop-up at Ludlow Liquors. If you have seen it, you know it’s full of a lot of the same white-knuckled, barely controlled […]
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Café Nova has a strategy for Sri Lankan food in Chicago and beyond
The first Sri Lankan Panda Express quietly opened in Rogers Park late last March. That’s what Kiso Sivarasa and his partners hoped when they launched Café Nova on the ground floor of Loyola University’s Granada Center, just a few doors down from Subway and across Sheridan from Taco Bell and Potbelly. “We want to grow […]
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It’s finally burger night with Heffer BBQ at the next Monday Night Foodball
Brisket is the great shapechanger in Heffer BBQ’s vast repertoire. The central Texas-Mexican barbecue duo have deployed their dreamy smoked beef breast in tacos, crunchwraps, Italian meatballs, bo ssam, brisquites, and classic Hill Country-style barbecue platters. But nothing lures hapless smoke-starved beef fiends to the Plant like their half-pound smoked brisket burgers, topped with pickled […]
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Bummer Wines brings natural wine to the neighborhood
By creating a wine club for residents of the Pilsen neighborhood, Rodriguez and Sanchez knew they could make a bigger impact in the beverage space and positively contribute to the community. And so Bummer Wines was born.
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It’s Tripping Billy’s Greatest Hits at the next Monday Night Foodball
You could say Billy Zureikat was reborn on the day he fell while walking his dachshund Einstein. For eight years the doctors couldn’t figure out why his legs were losing muscle mass and giving out from under him. Basketball had been a big part of his life, but while the avid shooting guard’s game steadily […]
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Be our guest with Bad Johnny’s Wood-Fired Pizza at the next Monday Night Foodball
On the day they met in Denver, Belle and the Beast got hitched and took off across the country. It was a wild ride, but they settled down quick—right here in Chicago—and began making beautiful pizzas together. Belle, as a mobile, restaurant-sized, wood-fired, brick pizza oven, gets pretty hot—around 950 degrees F. The Beast, as […]
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The spice must flow with Tasting India and Friends at the next Monday Night Foodball
On Memorial Day I rubbed some fat, Red Wattle pork chops with Vadouvan Masala, and the golden turmeric crust they developed on the grill lit up the night. Last summer I got my mitts on some ramen noodles freshly cut from a half-ton sentient machine and couldn’t think of a better prep than a raw […]
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Logan Square’s Middle Brow Beer is now a winery, naturally
Middle Brow’s Pizza Wine has the dark ruby-red color of a Napa Valley cabernet sauvignon, like something you’d want to drink with a thick porterhouse: jammy, tannic, boozy. With that on your mind, your first sip might come as a surprise. Sure enough, it has a rounded, full body, but it’s simultaneously ethereal, with a […]
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Worlds collide with DaNang Kitchen’s Vietnamese brunch
There’s no such thing as brunch in Vietnam. . . . Nevertheless, Argyle Street’s DaNang Kitchen recently started offering a “Vietnamese brunch,” featuring a few relatively uncommon dishes that can address a Western appetite for hangover-mitigating egg skillets.
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Crust Fund Pizza presents School Pizza Night at the next Monday Night Foodball
There’s been a startling discovery in the field of pizza research: lunch ladies invented the prototype for the Detroit-style pizza. Most people give credit for this monumental achievement to Gus Guerra of Buddy’s Rendezvous Pizzeria on Six Mile and Conant Street in the Motor City, but thanks to recently unearthed historical documents, we now know […]
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Celebrate four years of Mom’s greatest hits at the next Monday Night Foodball
Your Mom’s so old she turns four the day after Mother’s Day. Come on. I would never disrespect your moms like that. I’m talking about Mom’s Chicago, chef Kelly Ijichi’s Japanese American comfort food pop-up, which has been slinging katsu sandos, smashburgers on furikake milk bread, and coconut butter mochi for four turns around the […]