Also, the Park District demands answers from security firm after stabbings at Northerly Island concert.
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Cold Storage might leave you cold
Mike Sula reviews Cold Storage, the Boka group’s new casual seafood spot.
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Swift & Sons is a cut above in Fulton Market
The Boka Restaurant Group’s long-awaited steak house reimagines the format in a repurposed meat locker.
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The Sofitel’s cheesemaking and charcuterie program is almost ready for retail
The Sofitel Hotel’s cheesemaking and charcuterie programs are humming along and almost ready for online shopping.
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Formento’s is not your nonna’s red-sauce joint
The folks behind Balena and the Bristol take a stab at Italian-American—with some weird twists.
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Nonna’s Italian Dip Lampredotto is one gutsy sandwich
Formento’s adjunct sandwich shop introduces the Florentine Italian beef.
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Illinois’s first in-restaurant cheese-making operation has ‘kind of taken off’
Remember when the Sofitel Hotel started making its own cheese and charcuterie? Here’s what’s up with that six months on.
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Jean Banchet nominees show a scene that’s doing just fine, thank you
The Jean Banchet awards are announced, and show that our scene is still about where real people eat.
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Previewing the normal Italian-American at Formento’s
Getting a taste of what Formento’s, at 925 W. Randolph, will offer when it opens in December.
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Karen Herold looks at her own restaurant designs
The restaurant designer explains her work at some of Chicago’s top restaurants.
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Karen Herold makes dreams come to life as restaurants
Chicago’s hottest restaurant designer on how she plans your dining experience for you
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Nico Osteria’s Erling Wu-Bower talks his world of seafood
How you run a seafood restaurant in the middle of the country.
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Ferran Adrià and a very heavy book, and other upcoming events
Ferran Adrià at Balena and more events
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Who’s dining in the Room at Next?
There just aren’t enough ways to really blow money on fine dining, but here are two from Next and Balena.
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Michael Ruhlman: The soul (and craft) of a food writer
Talking with food writer Michael Ruhlman about the life of writing about food