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Home » Pleasant House Bakery

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Lone Wolf, your local source for sgroppino and Three Floyds beer

by Julia Thiel March 17, 2014August 18, 2021

A West Loop bar offers a pleasant place to wait for a table.

Breakfast at Mr. Spanky's
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Best Harbinger for the Future

by Kate Schmidt June 19, 2013August 19, 2021

“Local” and “sustainable” are such marketing shibboleths these days that they sometimes seem meaningless.

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High tea, photo cubes, and other thrifty gift ideas

by Kate Schmidt December 12, 2012August 19, 2021

More local gift ideas for under $25

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On the restaurant scene: a garden for a gray day and more

by Kate Schmidt October 19, 2012August 19, 2021

On the restaurant scene: a look back at Carnivale’s rooftop garden, upcoming brunches featuring produce grown on-site

Posted inBlogs

Jonathan Zaragoza to command kitchen at Masa Azul

by Mike Sula August 20, 2012August 19, 2021

The Prince of Chivo starts cooking at the tequila-focused restaurant Masa Azul in mid-September

Posted inArts & Culture

This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:

by Joey Jachowski and Drew Hunt March 19, 2012August 19, 2021

Chicagoans recommend Pleasant House pies, Jodorowsky’s The Incal, and streaming college basketball

Posted inBlogs

133 tasty things from 2011

by Mike Sula December 29, 2011August 19, 2021

I ate it all

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This week in Food & Drink: Best restaurants 2011

by Kate Schmidt December 29, 2011August 19, 2021

Our critics’ eight favorite restaurants from 2011, along with ten honorable mentions

Posted inFood & Drink

Our favorite restaurants of 2011

by Chicago Reader December 29, 2011August 19, 2021

Mike Sula and the CriticKiller2012 pick the year’s best new restaurants and ten honorable mentions

Posted inBlogs

The Chicago Food Film Festival

by Julia Thiel November 21, 2011August 19, 2021

Two videos from this weekend’s second annual Chicago Food Film Festival

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Best chef downshift, vegetable division

by Chicago Reader June 23, 2011August 19, 2021

Art Jackson, Pleasant House Bakery

Millet hand pie and millet tabbouleh
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This week in Food & Drink: Favorite things, Key Ingredient millet, Nightwood’s nocino, and more Pilsen restaurants

by Kate Schmidt June 17, 2011August 19, 2021

In this week’s Food & Drink: Mike Sula’s food favorites of the year to date, Paula Haney takes on Key Ingredient millet, hard-to-find walnut liqueur nocino is found at Nightwood, more Pilsen restaurants

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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