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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Chris Pandel looks to elevate the steak house with Swift & Sons
In July chef Chris Pandel (the Bristol, Balena) told Chicago magazine of the Boka Restaurant Group steak house he’ll helm come October: “We don’t want to change the steak house. We want to elevate it.” So far, though, the place has been defined by change. Originally the restaurant was going to be called Armour & […]
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Eat like the Obamas this Thursday, and other summer events
Events including an AIDS benefit, a benefit BBQ for recently flooded Acadia, a Fourth of July picnic inside Intro, a chance to eat food by Sam Kass, and more.
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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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Happy tenth to Boka Group, Alinea back in top ten, and other food news
Boka’s ten, Alinea’s number nine, and Action Bronson is back and hungry.
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Nineteen of Chicago’s best chefs will be at our Key Ingredient Cook-Off on May 9. Will you?
The lineup features several winners from last year’s KICO: Barry Sorkin (Smoque) and Paula Haney (Hoosier Mama Pie Shop), who won their categories, and Abraham Conlon (Fat Rice), who won overall.
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Dine with Ruhlman, Elie at upcoming dinners, plus a Pilot Light fund-raiser
Authors Michael Ruhlman and Lolis Eric Elie come to town for special dinners, while Paul Kahan and Matthias Merges raise money for teaching kids about food.
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This way for durian: Announcing the Key Ingredient Cook-Off
Coming May 3: Twenty-six Chicago chefs, five ingredients, primo booze, and bucks for the Healthy Schools Campaign
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In this week’s Food & Drink: Balena plays two
In this week’s Food & Drink: Chris Pandel and Boka Restaurant Group’s Balena, Key Ingredient pu-erh tea
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This Week’s Food and Drink Events
A tag-team beer dinner, a pig roast, a food truck summit, and more.
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This Week in Food & Drink: Craft Distillers, Key Ingredient Beef Tendon, Wasabi, a Shake-Up at Green City Market, and More
Last week Mike Sula wrote about underground distillers. In this week’s Omnivorous he looks at several regional craft distillers who are going the legit route, among them Paul Hletko, whose Few Spirits will be the first distillery in the history of Evanston. Other locals looking to set up shop are Miriam Matasar and Brenton Engel, […]