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Posted inFood & Drink

RIP Steve Zaransky, ‘Duck’s Bitch’

by Mike Sula July 12, 2019August 18, 2021

The founding member and co-owner of LTHForum remembered

Posted inFood & Drink

The Family House brings Burmese cuisine to Chicago

by Mike Sula January 10, 2018August 18, 2021

The city’s only restaurant serving the food of Myanmar has great Malaysian and Indonesian food too.

Posted inFood & Drink

A Bite of Szechuan adds to an undersung neighborhood dining scene

by Mike Sula March 20, 2017August 18, 2021

Chef Dingguo Cheng turns out uncompromising Chinese food in West Rogers Park.

Clockwise from top left: beef pad taming, kow tome (breakfast soup), som tam (papaya salad), pad cha (squid), and the powerfully funky and spicy jackfruit salad.
Posted inFood & Drink

Make the drive to Chicagoland’s only Lao restaurant

by Mike Sula February 28, 2014August 18, 2021

Spicy Thai Lao is in a blink-and-you-miss-it south-suburban strip mall. But you don’t want to miss it.

An island of the familiar in the middle of a strange city
Posted inFood & Drink

Blackfinn Ameripub: A restaurant for the antifoodie

by Aimee Levitt November 1, 2013August 19, 2021

Consider this chain outpost in River North an oasis from thinking too much about what you’re eating.

Naem khao tod is a masterful balance of textures—fryer-fused clumps of alternately puffed, crunchy, and soft rice.
Posted inFood & Drink

Rainbow Cuisine earns its stripes

by Mike Sula May 20, 2013August 19, 2021

Lincoln Square’s Rainbow Cuisine recalls the glory days of authentic Thai food.

Posted inBlogs

The nation’s largest vertical farm is in Bedford Park, and other food news bites

by Mike Sula March 22, 2013August 19, 2021

Stolen tip, squirrel ragu, and more.

Posted inBlogs

Smoking a turkey breast hunter-beef style

by Mike Sula January 21, 2013August 18, 2021

In which I cure a turkey breast with Pakistani hunter-beef spices.

Posted inBlogs

The siren beckons, Chaihanna closes, and more on this week’s restaurant scene

by Kate Schmidt October 4, 2012August 19, 2021

On the local restaurant scene this week: La Sirena Clandestina, Brazilian brunch, and the closing of the area’s only Uzbek restaurant

Posted inBlogs

Korean bars and other food news bites

by Mike Sula May 4, 2012August 19, 2021

Nella’s back, BLT American BIstro shutters, local blogs win national awards, and more food news bites.

Posted inBlogs

One Bite: three fungus tang at Cho Jung

by Mike Sula April 19, 2012August 19, 2021

A delicious fungal soup at the region’s greatest little Korean mom-and-pop

Posted inBlogs

One Bite: bun mam, aka Vietnamese gumbo

by Mike Sula January 18, 2012August 19, 2021

The mean bun man at Argyle Street’s Nha Hang Viet Nam

Posted inBlogs

Win $1,000 for your best Thai appetizer

by Mike Sula June 27, 2011August 19, 2021

Leela Punyaratabandhu of SheSimmers is hosting a Thai cooking contest

Posted inBest of Chicago

Best food blog

by Chicago Reader June 23, 2011August 19, 2021

Eater Chicago voted best food blog

Chicken balti royal pie and Scotch egg at Pleasant House Bakery
Posted inFood & Drink

A few of food writer Mike Sula’s favorites

by Mike Sula June 16, 2011August 19, 2021

From royal pies to end-of-the-world banana jerky, 2011 has been good so far

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