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 […]
Tag: Hermosa
Posted inFood & Drink
Are you ready for some Monday Night Foodball?
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 […]
Posted inFood & Drink
Mona Bella caters Cambodian
A Lettuce cook and her mom deliver a new Khmer menu each week.
Posted inFood & Drink
The year in pivots
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
Family Meal @hermosachicago is the chef’s next step toward a culinary Khmerica.
Posted inFood & Drink
Ethan Lim leans in to Cambodian food
Hermosa’s chef makes space on his sandwich menu for the city’s only Khmer food.
Posted inFood & Drink
Cambodia on a bun
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
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’
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
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
Undocumented residents have special concerns, and infrastructure-related housing price spikes are a major issue.
Posted inNews & Politics
What the hell is this place? Dulcelandia
Dulcelandia offers a variety of lucha libre wrestlers to bash until all the chile candy spills out.