The Mexique chef recalls, as a child, eating elotes with his father in Mexico.
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Make street food at home with help from a new cookbook by the grilling and drinking collective ManBQue
Among the 200 recipes, the elote wings manage to transfer the essence of grilled Mexican corn to chicken.
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Pretend it’s summertime with a Farmhouse Chicago bartender’s elotes cocktail
Challenged to create a cocktail with canned corn, Victoria Snider turns to Mexican street food for inspiration.
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MFK offers an underground refuge
The Spanish-focused seafood spot is a testament to virtuous simplicity.
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Chicago Street Food: We Keep Baking Till We Get Cake
The mission to make street food legal (and practical) in Chicago is a years-long one.
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From the archives: Neal Pollack on the Pushcart Putsch of ’97
The battle between the city and the eloteros is an old one, both in Chicago and around the country.