Theaster Gates’s Washington Park restaurant may be setting the stage for a soul-food comeback.
Tag: Miss Lee’s Good Food
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Best Dinner at Grandma’s
Don’t worry about filling up; it’s an inevitability, given the heaps and heaps of well-cooked, deeply flavored soul food.
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This Week in Food & Drink: A Soul-Food Legend Revived, Two North-Side “Urban” Taquerias, Key Ingredient Fish Eyeballs, and More
This week in Food & Drink: Ruby’s Restaurant and other soul food spots, two new “urban” taquerias, Key Ingredient fish eyeballs, underground dining society Tuesday Night Dinner, Fireston Walker Double Jack Double IPA, and more.
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Restaurant Listings: Ace’s, Ethel’s, and More Soul Food
Food for the Soul Nine survivors Ace’s Soul Food Cafe 432 E. 63rd | 773-675-8469 $ BREAKFAST, LUNCH, DINNER: SEVEN DAYS The cooks at H&A Restaurant, a legendary Chicago “soul station,” had a way with fried chicken, greens, and hot dinner rolls. But H&A, around since 1945, closed a few years ago. For months the […]
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New Year’s Resolution: Going to Restaurants
Opening up my little black book of restaurants.
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Foods of my labors
Last week I spent a fair amount of time doing laborious data-scrubbing of our restaurant listings; by way of making lemonade from lemons, here are some of the more intriguing restaurants I discovered. I can’t recommend them personally, but that’s sort of the point: they’re the places that piqued my interest enough to go on […]
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More on Chicago soul food
Soul food savants Rob Lopata and Peter Engler weigh in on biscuits, corn bread, and hoecakes.