During the pandemic, Shin Thompson and Liga Sigal established themselves as masters of carryout curry—specifically karē, the alluring, enveloping, Snuggie-in-a-bowl that is Japan’s great gift to global comfort and reassurance. Maybe you’re skeptical. What’s so hard about packing a thick, warmly-spiced, root veggie-stocked edible lava in a plastic jewel box and sending it on its […]
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The Moonwalker Cafe brings a rare and porky specialty from Guerrero to Monday Night Foodball
Whenever there was a wedding or baptism to celebrate in San Luis de la Loma, Ana Mellin made the relleno de puerco. In the tiny town just up the coast from Acapulco, she and her cousins roasted banana leaf-swaddled, whole hogs for funerals too. The celebratory pig, stuffed with pineapple, plantains, tomatoes, potatoes, carrots, and […]
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The year in pivots
Chicago restaurants ate shit this year. A lot of shit was still pretty great.
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Bokuchan’s ghost curry holds up in transit
It’s Shin Thompson’s pivot to Japanese soul food, from a virtual kitchen.
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Logan Square still hasn’t reached its saturation point for cocktail bars—and Deadbolt is proof
A polished but unpretentious cocktail bar has replaced Helen’s Two-Way Lounge at the corner of Fullerton and Milwaukee.
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What’s up with poke, man?
The Hawaiian seafood salad has hit our midwestern shores like so much Spam.
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Eat your ramen furiously at Furious Spoon
Shin Thompson join the ramen wars with a snug ramen-ya.
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Previewing the ramen for lliana Regan’s Wunder POP this spring
First look at the ramen bar that will launch the pop-up series at Iliana Regan’s Wunder POP.
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Eastern promises at Kabocha
Kabocha, Shin Thompson’s “Japanese brasserie,” delivers half the time.
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Eastern promises at Kabocha
Kabocha, Shin Thompson’s “Japanese brasserie,” delivers half the time.
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Over-romanticizing the peasantry at Table, Donkey and Stick
Grimm-inspired alpine restaurant Table, Donkey and Stick serves as a cautionary tale.
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Boom, bust, and Berwyn on this week’s restaurant scene
On the restaurant scene: Moto descendant Baume & Brix opens, the modern Korean Bonsoiree closes, Berwyn’s Autre Monde reopens
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Key Ingredient: bamboo worms
Luke Creagan of Pops for Champagne goes gourmet(ish) with fishing bait
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This week in Food & Drink: Key Ingredient burdock root, Bistro Voltaire, and seven more French bistros
In this week’s Food & Drink: Key Ingredient burdock root, River West’s new Bistro Voltaire, and seven additional French bistros