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A square of flanlike spreadable blood, almost chocolatey in flavor and strewn with crunchy endive spears, is a mind-blowing dish.

Food & Drink

Former Top Cheftestant brings soulful, creative Korean to Avondale

by Mike Sula July 11, 2014August 18, 2021

Former Top Cheftestant brings soulful, creative Korean to Avondale.

Soupy risotto, the grains perfectly distinct, sweetened with sun-dried tomatoes and crowned by fat grilled shrimp

Food & Drink

Joe Fish, Rosebud Restaurants’ new seafood house, is for ballers

by Mike Sula May 23, 2014August 18, 2021

Joe Fish, Rosebud Restaurants’ new seafood house, is for ballers.

Some of the finest, freshest sashimi in the city

Food & Drink

Japonais by Morimoto: At the top of the sushi food chain

by Mike Sula March 21, 2014August 18, 2021

Japonais by Morimoto: At the top of the sushi food chain

Trout simply broiled and served with a bright lemon-parsley sauce was one of Kinmont's most memorably tasty dishes.

Food & Drink

Rough waters at Kinmont

by Mike Sula March 14, 2014August 18, 2021

Kinmont falls short of doing great things with sustainable seafood.

You can easily get lost in the squid-ink bucatini—in a good way.

Food & Drink

At Paul Kahan’s Nico Osteria, two worlds collide with a bang

by Mara Shalhoup February 1, 2014August 18, 2021

At Paul Kahan’s Nico Osteria, two worlds collide.

Juicy and succulent, Tanta's pollo a la brasa is one of the best versions in town.

Food & Drink

Tanta: Peruvian time is nigh

by Mike Sula October 4, 2013August 19, 2021

Tanta: Peruvian time is nigh.

A selection of “seacuterie” includes whitefish rillettes, thinly sliced octopus carpaccio, and a “bouillabaisse” aspic bombe in which bits of shellfish are suspended.

Food & Drink

Travelle is all over the Mediterranean

by Mike Sula September 27, 2013August 19, 2021

Travelle, Tim Graham’s restaurant in the Langham hotel, covers too much of the map.

Sweetly glazed and grilled tangles of octopus tentacles

Food & Drink

The audacity of long-awaited southeast Asian restaurant Oon

by Mike Sula August 16, 2013August 19, 2021

Oon, Matt Eversman’s follow-up to Saigon Sisters, is ballsy but restrained.

"Smoked sashimi" is a bit of Moto-esque drama.

Food & Drink

Juno dreams of sushi

by Mike Sula July 1, 2013August 19, 2021

Juno, the post-Arami comeback from B.K. Park, is a work in progress.

The "seafood aquarium" is Shin Thompson's answer to the ever-popular steak house showstopper known as the seafood tower.

Food & Drink

Eastern promises at Kabocha

by Mike Sula June 6, 2013August 19, 2021

Kabocha, Shin Thompson’s “Japanese brasserie,” delivers half the time.

Food & Drink

Eastern promises at Kabocha

by Mike Sula June 3, 2013August 19, 2021

Kabocha, Shin Thompson’s “Japanese brasserie,” delivers half the time.

A distorted, glassy sugar flume houses levels of chocolate mousse, chocolate pound cake, souffle, and cream for a surreally constructed dessert.

Food & Drink

Brindille is a refuge from frightening surroundings

by Mike Sula May 24, 2013August 19, 2021

Brindille: A refuge from frightening culinary surroundings

Blogs

Kanikôsen

by Ed M. Koziarski October 19, 2009August 19, 2021

Takiji Kobayashi’s subversive novel about insurrection aboard a Japanese imperial crab fishing ship gets a film adaptation from goofy surrealist Sabu in “Kanikôsen,” screening Monday 10/19 and Tuesday 10/20 in the Chicago International Film Festival.