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Posted inFood & Drink

It’s Ethan Lim’s Khmerican bar food vs. your wolfish hunger at Monday Night Foodball

by Mike Sula October 8, 2021June 27, 2022

Earlier this summer I sat down to one of the most exclusive tables in town. No, not Alinea. Not Ever. Nor was it The Crib, (RIP). It was an eight-course blowout at Hermosa, Ethan Lim’s tiny sandwich shop by day, six-seat “Family Meal” prix fixe by night. Lim’s ongoing nocturnal pop-up—during which he buries his […]

chojin salad
Posted inFood & Drink

Are you ready for some Monday Night Foodball?

by Mike Sula August 19, 2021June 27, 2022

In January 2020 I assumed I had a lock on the annual Kedzie Inn chili cookoff, with a three-day smoked brisket braised with Cremeria La Ordena mole picoson. I spent a lot of time peering into the Dutch oven, building it, finessing it—no, caressing it—making sure the judges would drown in its smoldering, head-spinning complexity. So I […]

Irresistible Khmer-style chicken wings stuffed with ground pork and bean thread noodles
Posted inFood & Drink

Mona Bella caters Cambodian

by Mike Sula March 2, 2021August 18, 2021

A Lettuce cook and her mom deliver a new Khmer menu each week.

Posted inFood & Drink

The year in pivots

by Mike Sula December 18, 2020August 18, 2021

Chicago restaurants ate shit this year. A lot of shit was still pretty great.

Posted inFood & Drink

Ethan Lim’s seven-course Cambodian ode to mom and dad is live

by Mike Sula September 18, 2020August 18, 2021

Family Meal @hermosachicago is the chef’s next step toward a culinary Khmerica.

Posted inFood & Drink

Ethan Lim leans in to Cambodian food

by Mike Sula May 26, 2020August 18, 2021

Hermosa’s chef makes space on his sandwich menu for the city’s only Khmer food.

Posted inFood & Drink

Cambodia on a bun

by Mike Sula November 27, 2019August 18, 2021

Hermosa’s Ethan Lim looks around the globe and asks, “Will it sandwich?”

Posted inFood & Drink

There’s Khmer food right under your nose at Googoo’s Table

by Mike Sula November 24, 2019August 18, 2021

This Chinese restaurant in Hermosa hides a few Cambodian dishes on its broad menu.

Posted inArts & Culture

Collaboraction’s Peacebook performance festival tackles an ‘epidemic of inequity’

by Dan Jakes August 30, 2017August 18, 2021

More than 200 artists bring 24 short “prayers for peace” to Englewood, Hermosa, and Austin this fall.

Posted inCity Life

Inside the former Hammond Organ factory, a marble sculptor has carved out an ideal studio

by Laura Pearson February 3, 2017August 18, 2021

A tour of Jyl Bonaguro’s art studio at Workshop 4200, an enormous industrial facility in Hermosa

Posted inColumns & Opinion

For Latino activists, transportation justice means factoring in immigration and gentrification

by John Greenfield November 10, 2016August 18, 2021

Undocumented residents have special concerns, and infrastructure-related housing price spikes are a major issue.

Giant pinatas and mounds of candy await your perusal.
Posted inNews & Politics

What the hell is this place? Dulcelandia

by Gwynedd Stuart December 30, 2013August 18, 2021

Dulcelandia offers a variety of lucha libre wrestlers to bash until all the chile candy spills out.

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