The restless innovator and Michelin-starred chef bares his soul in a new graphic novel.
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Schwa, now with fewer drugs and more adult responsibility
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?
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Smyth is right at home among Chicago’s temples to high gastronomy
The fine-dining sibling to the Loyalist is worth a splurge.
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Ravenswood’s Band of Bohemia needs some practice
Mike Sula reviews Band of Bohemia, the “culinary brewhouse” in Andersonville.
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Elizabeth gets companions, 5 Loaves gets a shock, and more food news
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.
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How a chef cures meats for Chicago’s first-ever Charcuterie Week
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.
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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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Phillip Foss’s Meatyballs rides again
The El Ideas chef takes his meatball sandwich truck on the road again after two and a half years of fine dining.
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Meet the Chicago chefs who just got short-listed for the Beard Awards
This year’s James Beard Awards short list gets Chicago pretty well.
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In the kitchen at El Ideas, the night before Michelin
Go inside the kitchen at newly Michelin-starred EL Ideas in our slide show.
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Go choco-nutty and offal-licious, pork hock and vegan strippers in Portland, and more things coming up
El Ideas has a guest, 1,000 pounds of chocolate await you, Cleetus wants you to try his beer, and more.
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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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Andrew Brochu alights at the Monarch
The itinerant chef returns to high-caliber bar food.
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Into the woods, darkly, at Elizabeth
Iliana Regan’s Elizabeth Restaurant is the setting for a delicious, sometimes eerie fairy tale