The story I wish I’d told a year ago
Tag: Adrienne Lo
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Why Fat Rice and Sun Wah deserved their Beard awards
Not that we’re not sad for everybody else.
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The Adventures of Fat Rice documents one of the world’s oldest fusion cuisines
The Logan Square restaurant’s cookbook documents one of the world’s oldest fusion cuisines.
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The Ladies’ Room, Fat Rice’s new bar, brings Macau’s red-light district to Logan Square
The tiny, red-lit bar in the restaurant’s former waiting room is doing surprising things with cocktails.
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How Fat Rice is building America’s best Portuguese wine list
Fat Rice’s Abe Conlon and Adrienne Lo traveled to Portugal with wine retailer Craig Perman to find artisanal wine.
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First look at Fat Rice’s new Macanese dim sum brunch
Fat Rice is expanding—into cha gordo, a Macanese take on dim sum brunch.
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Meet the Chicago chefs who just got short-listed for the Beard Awards
This year’s James Beard Awards short list gets Chicago pretty well.
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The migration of the hipster
The migration of the hipster: A Chicago history, 1898-present
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In praise of the Chicago Tribune’s Christopher Borrelli
I’m a fan of the Trib general assignment features reporter.
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Exciting fusion at Fat Rice
Fat Rice harmonizes the food of Portugal and its former colonies
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Just like the nuts your mama used to make, or maybe not
A pair of underground restaurateurs are preserving family recipes and traditions in Mama’s Nuts