T he Reader has covered food and restaurants in Chicago throughout its half-century existence, though not nearly as consistently or comprehensively as music, film, drama, or most of the other arts—certainly not every week when I came on as a starving editorial assistant way back in ’95. Back then there was a very occasional visual […]
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Israel’s melting pot cuisine is finally done right at Galit
Zachary Engel brings modern Israeli cooking to Chicago via Zahay and Shaya.
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Aba, the new West Loop “Mediterranean” restaurant, serves food from the land of milk and honey
Aba is a Mediterranean restaurant with “a California accent.”
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Lettuce now praise Richard Melman, one of the greatest innovators in Chicago food history
Melman’s Lettuce Entertain You chain did just as much as Charlie Trotter to make Chicago a center for innovative cuisine, the Reader‘s Elizabeth M. Tamny argued back in 2006.
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The pan-Asian S.K.Y. opens on Pilsen
Former Intro chef Stephen Gillanders’s vision alights on a gentrifying 18th Street.
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Illinois to borrow $6 billion to start paying its unpaid bills, and other Chicago news
Also, Mayor Emanuel is trying to persuade Amazon to locate its second headquarters in Chicago.
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The New York Times: There are ‘some signs of hope’ in ‘Chicago’s crisis of violence,’ and other news
Also, an anti-Muslim group is organizing the Chicago March Against Sharia.
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Caterpillar moving global headquarters to Chicago from Peoria, and other news
Also, wealth inequality between whites and minorities in Chicago is reportedly higher than the national average.
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Worlds collide with Intro’s Japanese-Italian trattoria menu
Chef Hisanobu Osaka’s residency explores the affinities of two great world cuisines.
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Ema, the Israeli restaurant that’s not Israeli
Lettuce Entertain You’s new “Mediterranean” spot is all over the map.
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Lettuce Entertain You phones one in for the whole family
Mike Sula reviews Lettuce Entertain You’s Il Porcellino.
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Oyster Bah serves up the flavors of Maine on North Halsted Street
Aimee Levitt reviews Oyster Bah, Lettuce Entertain You’s crowd-pleasing New England-style seafood shack.
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Intro hosts Jean-Georges Vongerichten protege Stephen Gillanders
Back in March, when the weather was still cold and dreary, we praised chef C.J. Jacobson for bringing some west-coast sunshine to Intro, the Lettuce Entertain You concept that hosts a new chef—who presents a new menu—every three months or so. Another LA chef is on his way to the restaurant’s kitchen, by way of […]
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Intro’s first guest chef, C.J. Jacobson, brings west-coast sunshine to the midwest
The former Top Cheftestant gets Lettuce Entertain You’s new concept off to a running start.
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Osteria Via Stato was Italian in River North before everything was
River North stalwart Osteria Via Stato celebrates a decade as a pioneer of seasonal Italian food in River North.