In a new documentary, filmmaker Jack C. Newell captures the life cycle of chef Jake Bickelhaupt’s dearly departed Uptown restaurant.
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Schwa, now with fewer drugs and more adult responsibility
Once infamous for its excesses, the influential restaurant from mercurial chef Michael Carlson has transformed itself into a fertile proving ground for Chicago’s next generation of young culinary talent. Now that it’s all grown up, has Schwa lost its edge?
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Mike Quigley: Russians hacked the Illinois State Board of Elections’ voter database, and other Chicago news
Also, 30 percent of local Michelin-starred restaurants have closed.
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Shot down again, Rod Blagojevich takes his sentencing appeal to the Supreme Court a second time, and other Chicago news
Also, gas prices in Illinois are the lowest they’ve been in 12 years.
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Smyth is right at home among Chicago’s temples to high gastronomy
The fine-dining sibling to the Loyalist is worth a splurge.
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Jake Bickelhaupt of 42 Grams named one of Food & Wine’s best new chefs
42 Grams’ Jake Bickelhaupt is one of Food and Wine‘s best new chefs for 2015.
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It was a crazy day in Chicago food! No fooling!
The craziest things to happen around April 1 weren’t pranks.
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Our favorite restaurants of 2014
They weren’t all Italian. And they weren’t all in River North.
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The Michelin Guide is still your dad (and more food news)
Pronouncing on Michelin’s announcements, the Chicago Film Festival returns, and other events in the food world.
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Best Kitchen Table
Part dinner party, part live performance, it’s as intimate as you’ll get with the creation of a 15-course tasting menu.
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The underground goes Uptown at 42 Grams
Former underground chef Jake Bickelhaupt steps into the spotlight with the Uptown fine-dining restaurant 42 Grams.
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Chicago magazine’s best, and the rest
An alternative look at the past year on Chicago’s food scene
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Underground dining experience gets a real kitchen with 42 Grams
Underground dinner Sous Rising will go street level with 42 Grams next month.