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Home » El Ideas

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Posted inFood & Drink

Phillip Foss in El

by Mike Sula October 31, 2019August 18, 2021

The restless innovator and Michelin-starred chef bares his soul in a new graphic novel.

Posted inFood & Drink

Schwa, now with fewer drugs and more adult responsibility

by Michael Gebert August 9, 2017August 18, 2021

Once infamous for its excesses, the influential restaurant from mercurial chef Michael Carlson has transformed itself into a fertile proving ground for Chicago’s next generation of young culinary talent. Now that it’s all grown up, has Schwa lost its edge?

Posted inFood & Drink

Smyth is right at home among Chicago’s temples to high gastronomy

by Mike Sula October 13, 2016August 18, 2021

The fine-dining sibling to the Loyalist is worth a splurge.

Posted inFood & Drink

Ravenswood’s Band of Bohemia needs some practice

by Mike Sula February 2, 2016August 18, 2021

Mike Sula reviews Band of Bohemia, the “culinary brewhouse” in Andersonville.

Posted inBlogs

Elizabeth gets companions, 5 Loaves gets a shock, and more food news

by Michael Gebert March 4, 2015August 18, 2021

Elizabeth’s doughnut and pop-up space, help out a south-side gem, El Ideas smells like teen spirit, and Nico Osteria wishes it was in Tijuana eating barbecued iguana.

Posted inBlogs

How a chef cures meats for Chicago’s first-ever Charcuterie Week

by Michael Gebert February 24, 2015August 18, 2021

It’s Charc Week, and here’s how Scott Manley of Table, Donkey & Stick made his entries in the multi-restaurant celebration of cured meats.

Posted inBlogs

Jean Banchet nominees show a scene that’s doing just fine, thank you

by Michael Gebert October 30, 2014August 18, 2021

The Jean Banchet awards are announced, and show that our scene is still about where real people eat.

Posted inBlogs

Phillip Foss’s Meatyballs rides again

by Michael Gebert March 18, 2014August 18, 2021

The El Ideas chef takes his meatball sandwich truck on the road again after two and a half years of fine dining.

Posted inBlogs

Meet the Chicago chefs who just got short-listed for the Beard Awards

by Michael Gebert February 20, 2014August 18, 2021

This year’s James Beard Awards short list gets Chicago pretty well.

Posted inBlogs

In the kitchen at El Ideas, the night before Michelin

by Michael Gebert November 15, 2013August 19, 2021

Go inside the kitchen at newly Michelin-starred EL Ideas in our slide show.

Posted inBlogs

Go choco-nutty and offal-licious, pork hock and vegan strippers in Portland, and more things coming up

by Michael Gebert October 15, 2013August 19, 2021

El Ideas has a guest, 1,000 pounds of chocolate await you, Cleetus wants you to try his beer, and more.

Posted inBlogs

This way for durian: Announcing the Key Ingredient Cook-Off

by Kate Schmidt April 11, 2013August 19, 2021

Coming May 3: Twenty-six Chicago chefs, five ingredients, primo booze, and bucks for the Healthy Schools Campaign

Posted inBlogs

Andrew Brochu alights at the Monarch

by Mike Sula March 27, 2013August 19, 2021

The itinerant chef returns to high-caliber bar food.

Salad of grilled mushrooms, 
young pine shoot gel, and acorn puree
Posted inFood & Drink

Into the woods, darkly, at Elizabeth

by Mike Sula October 31, 2012August 19, 2021

Iliana Regan’s Elizabeth Restaurant is the setting for a delicious, sometimes eerie fairy tale

Posted inBlogs

Christopher Kimball vs. Michael Ruhlman

by Mike Sula October 16, 2012August 19, 2021

Throw off the yoke of Cook’s Illustrated

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