Chef Matthias Merges’s restaurant is the latest to open in the Hotel Zachary, across from Wrigley Field.
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How Mordecai chef-owner Matthias Merges helped transform modern fine dining
A phone call to PolyScience in Niles resulted in the popularization of immersion circulators in restaurant kitchens.
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Is Matthias Merges and Graham Elliot’s Gideon Sweet the second coming of Yusho?
The Randolph Street restaurant is a reunion of sorts for the celebrity chefs, but it’s in some ways also a rebirth.
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Emanuel declares Chicago a ‘Trump-free zone’ after Sessions announces plan to end DACA, and other news
Also, Latino students are on pace to become the majority at CPS in a few years.
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More than 1.2 million people could be getting partial refunds for red light tickets, and other Chicago news
Also, CPS is expecting about 8,000 fewer students for the 2017-2018 school year.
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Black Lives Matters sues Chicago Police Department over reform consent decree, and other news
Also, Lin-Manuel Miranda might star in a Chicago Hamilton performance during the last week of August.
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Chris Kennedy: J.B. Pritzker does not ‘deserve’ to be governor, and other Chicago news
Also, the city removed 12 red-light cameras after a study showed they were not preventing crashes.
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Old Irving Brewing will ease your postelection pain
Trevor Rose-Hamblin’s beer and Matthias Merges’s food could fuel the revolution—or at least spirited talk of one.
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Talking Taste Talks Chicago with Lula Cafe chef Jason Hammel
The upcoming food-centric conference features parties, meals, panel discussions, and chef demos.
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Five new beer-centric spots opening in the fall
Moody Tongue Brewing Company is opening a tasting room, and lots more brewing around town.
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Shop for a farmer and more at the Good Food Festival
Chicago’s Good Food Festival hold its 11th annual open house and conference aimed at connecting food producers with consumers and business contacts.
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What happens when all-star chefs get in bed with Big Food?
Culinary icons from Paul Kahan to Rick Bayless, Grant Achatz to Matthias Merges, Ina Pinkney to Homaro Cantu have forged unlikely relationships with brands such as Nestlé, Kraft, and Lean Cuisine. The results might surprise you.
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A10, the much-anticipated Hyde Park restaurant, is for now a B minus
A10, Matthias Merges’s much-anticipated Hyde Park restaurant, gets a B minus for now.
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Our favorite restaurants of 2013
Our favorite restaurants of 2013: From suburban ramen to west-side barbecue to tiki time in River North
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Reader’s Agenda Mon 11/11: Logan Square Chef’s Dinner, Bruce Vilanch, and Colin Meloy
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Monday, November 11