A West Loop bar offers a pleasant place to wait for a table.
Tag: Pleasant House Bakery
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Best Harbinger for the Future
“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
More local gift ideas for under $25
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On the restaurant scene: a garden for a gray day and more
On the restaurant scene: a look back at Carnivale’s rooftop garden, upcoming brunches featuring produce grown on-site
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Jonathan Zaragoza to command kitchen at Masa Azul
The Prince of Chivo starts cooking at the tequila-focused restaurant Masa Azul in mid-September
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This week’s Culture Vultures recommend:
Chicagoans recommend Pleasant House pies, Jodorowsky’s The Incal, and streaming college basketball
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This week in Food & Drink: Best restaurants 2011
Our critics’ eight favorite restaurants from 2011, along with ten honorable mentions
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Our favorite restaurants of 2011
Mike Sula and the CriticKiller2012 pick the year’s best new restaurants and ten honorable mentions
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The Chicago Food Film Festival
Two videos from this weekend’s second annual Chicago Food Film Festival
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This week in Food & Drink: Favorite things, Key Ingredient millet, Nightwood’s nocino, and more Pilsen restaurants
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
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A few of food writer Mike Sula’s favorites
From royal pies to end-of-the-world banana jerky, 2011 has been good so far