Texas was once Mexican. Texas is Mexican again this November 14 when Heffer BBQ returns to Monday Night Foodball, the Reader’s weekly chef pop-up at the Kedzie Inn in Irving Park. I’m sure you remember back in September, the last time someone parked a 500-gallon offset smoker outside the bar and the sweet haze of […]
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It’s a night of fresh pastabilities with Gemma Foods at the next Monday Night Foodball
Nobody makes eating fresh pasta at home easier than Tony Quartaro. Since I wrote about him last summer, the former Formento’s chef installed his roving fresh pasta delivery service Gemma Foods into a permanent Grand Avenue brick-and-mortar. Now you can watch your farro mafaldine rolled out and cut in the window, take it home, and […]
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Worlds collide with Flavor Supreme and Lolo Agogo of Monday Snack Gathering at Monday Night Foodball
Did you miss the good times last Monday, when Joey Pham (@flavorsupreme), Kelly Ijichi (Mom’s Chicago), and their Monday Snack Gathering* cohort conjured magic from the depths of the Kedzie Inn’s roiling deep fryer? Chicken gyoza showered in black truffles flew around the dining room like a flock of sizzling hummingbirds. From that you’d never […]
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Watch chef Christopher Thompson create the most expensive pizza ever made with Chef Boyardee ravioli
Challenged to create a dish with Chef Boyardee Beef Ravioli in Tomato & Meat Sauce, Christopher Thompson of Coda di Volpe piles on the black truffles.
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Evanston’s Boltwood is unpredictable—and that’s not a complaint
Evanston’s Boltwood is unpredictable—and that’s not a complaint
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The audacity of Michael Sheerin’s Cicchetti
Former Blackbird chef Michael Sheerin is taking Venetian food somewhere new.
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Azzurra EnoTavola is the season’s Italian sleeper
Azzura EnoTavola offers simple, soulful Italian food from the folks behind Anteprima and Bar Ombra.
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In search of the best spaghetti and meatballs ever
Does this elusive honor belong to the version of the dish served up at Centro Ristorante?
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Stick with tradition at J. Rocco
Pick a meatball, any meatball (but probably not the shrimp kind) at J. Rocco.
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Siena Tavern spells Italian sbagliato
Another Italian food factory—this one from Top Cheftestant Fabio Viviani—occupies River North.
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Weekly Top Five: The haphazard grace of Roger Corman
Weekly Top Five: the films of Roger Corman, auteur
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Now Playing: No Strings Attached
Ben Sachs reviews the new romantic comedy starring Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher.