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It’s chicken and waffle night at Monday Night Foodball

by Mike Sula September 22, 2022September 22, 2022

The chickens roam freely over the pastures at Avrom Farm in Ripon, Wisconsin. But you might have spotted them in the wild this season at the Green City or Wicker Park farmers’ markets, where they nest on warm buckwheat waffles battered with their own eggs.
This Wednesday they’re flocking to Irving Park for Monday Night Foodball, the Reader’s weekly pop-up chef series at the Kedzie Inn.

Food & Drink

Like a blazing fried chicken, Thommy’s Toddy Shop rises from the ashes at the Next Monday Night Foodball

by Mike Sula July 26, 2022August 1, 2022

The Colonel came out of retirement to make KFC at the Kedzie Inn. OK, Thom Padanilam does not have an honorific title from the Indian state of Kerala. Someday, probably, but for now he’s back in the game as the boss man of Thommy’s Toddy Shop, the pandemic-born Malayali food pop-up and podi peddler he […]

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Angelina Bastidas does Dominican food her way at Monday Night Foodball

by Mike Sula May 4, 2022June 27, 2022

Abuelita Dircia wanted to know why there’s no rice and beans or sancocho on her niña’s menu. You might know “niña,” aka chef Angelina Bastidas, from her work at the late AMK Kitchen Bar and BIN 36. Or maybe you know her from her turns on Top Chef or Bong Appetit; or her private, fine-dining […]

Food & Drink

Chick-Feel-Gay puns in the face of oppression at Monday Night Foodball

by Mike Sula April 27, 2022June 27, 2022

As recent events have demonstrated, public mockery, scorn, and derision are effective, legitimate means to achieve justice. And to that end, the Monday Night Foodball team loves a powerful pun, which is why we are right chuffed to welcome Dani Kaplan to the Reader’s weekly chef pop up at the Kedzie Inn. Up until January, […]

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Trini Zaddy and Alteconomy conjure Afro Caribbean-Korean food for Monday Night Foodball

by Mike Sula December 8, 2021June 27, 2022

Sometime last summer Jennifer Kim told me she was keenly interested in collaborating with Nariba Shepherd for a proposed Monday Night Foodball, the Reader’s ongoing weekly guest chef pop-up series at the Kedzie Inn in Irving Park. Kim, of course, is the ex-Passerotto chef who emerged amid the pandemic as the driving force behind Alteconomy, […]

Food & Drink

Pride is alive this year at Lost Lake’s Chick-Feel-Gay 2.0

by Mike Sula June 26, 2020August 18, 2021

Don’t let Christian-corporate fast food tell you anything different: fried chicken is queer.

Food & Drink

Thattu, the city’s only Keralite restaurant, began with a biscuit

by Mike Sula June 13, 2019August 18, 2021

There’s a specialist in the cuisine of Kerala tucked inside the new West Loop food hall Politan Row.

Food & Drink

Wicker Park’s Ina Mae Tavern is New Orleans in a bottle

by Mike Sula August 9, 2018August 18, 2021

NOLA native Brian Jupiter (Frontier) gives authenticity to this Cajun-creole spot in the former Beechwood Inn.

Food & Drink

Radio Anago is Brendan Sodikoff’s sushi cave under the deep dark sea …

by Mike Sula May 3, 2018August 18, 2021

Hogsalt Hospitality takes a pure, respectful approach to fish amid River North’s culinary cliches.

Blogs

Lupe Fiasco loves Harold’s Chicken, but does he know which Harold’s is best?

by Aimee Levitt February 8, 2018August 18, 2021

In 2006, Mike Sula went on an epic fried chicken tour to find out.

Food & Drink

The pan-Asian S.K.Y. opens on Pilsen

by Mike Sula January 23, 2018August 18, 2021

Former Intro chef Stephen Gillanders’s vision alights on a gentrifying 18th Street.

Music

Underrated young rapper Charlie Curtis-Beard drops his ambitious second album

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil November 14, 2017August 18, 2021

Underrated young rapper Charlie Curtis-Beard drops his ambitious second album, LGBTQ prisoner-advocate group Black and Pink throws a benefit show at Elastic, and more.