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Chicago chefs, restaurants lose out at James Beard Foundation Awards
The city, last year was deemed to have the most outstanding restaurant in the country, made a less than impressive showing this year despite hosting the event.
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The best new Chicago restaurants of the year
Seventeen spots where you could escape the Great Garbage Fire of 2017.
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Country clubs aren’t cool, but the food at Somerset is
Chef Lee Wolen opens the season in the Gold Coast at Boka Restaurant Group’s latest.
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Chef Diana Dávila pays tribute to her culinary mentor, Giuseppe Tentori
The Mi Tocaya Antojería chef fondly recalls Tentori’s welcoming vibe—and the time he threw a scallop at her.
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Rauner urges state legislators to pass the Illinois senate’s ‘grand bargain,’ and other Chicago news
Also, the list of Beard Award semifinalists is full of Chicagoans.
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The private off-menu staff meals of Chicago’s top restaurants
A behind-the-scenes look at how the city’s best restaurants and chefs feed their workers
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When Boka’s off-menu, Asian food rules
Chef Lee Wolen and his staff indulge in a Korean feast in between prep and service.
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Alinea, Grace chef Curtis Duffy, and Land and Sea Dept. all wore Beards last night
James Beard Awards went to three Chicago chefs and restaurateurs during the 2016 ceremony at the Civic Opera House.
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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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Save Cantina 1910 from ignorant Yelpers
Chef Diana Dávila is making imaginative, original Mexican food in Andersonville, a neighborhood that doesn’t always embrace culinary talent.
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Johnny’s Grill in Logan Square is a greasy spoon no more
Acclaimed pastry chef Sarah Jordan classes up the joint—mostly for the better.
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Celebrating the tomato, moules frites, Filipino culture, and other food events
A tomato festival, a mussels festival, a Schnitzelfest, your chance to hang out at a Bocuse-style competition, a celebration of new Filipino cooking, and more.
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Play poobah at Cherry Circle Room
No longer a boys’ club, the restaurant in the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel is a retreat from Michigan Avenue madness.
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Our favorite restaurants of 2014
They weren’t all Italian. And they weren’t all in River North.