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Best chef downshift, vegetable division

by Chicago Reader June 23, 2011August 19, 2021

Art Jackson, Pleasant House Bakery

Posted inBest of Chicago

Best one-woman kitchen

by Chicago Reader June 23, 2011August 19, 2021

Noon Hour Grill

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Best place in Chicago to sample salumi from Mario Batali’s papa

by Chicago Reader June 23, 2011August 19, 2021

694 Wine & Spirits

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Best som tam

by Chicago Reader June 23, 2011August 19, 2021

TAC Quick

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Best intersection to watch people do stupid shit on their bikes

by Chicago Reader June 23, 2011August 19, 2021

Damen/North/Milwaukee in Wicker Park

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Best weekly live-music gig

by Chicago Reader June 23, 2011August 19, 2021

Robbie Fulks at the Hideout

Posted inBest of Chicago

Best place to hear work by Wandelweiser Group composers

by Chicago Reader June 23, 2011August 19, 2021

Elastic

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Best place to park for a Sox night game

by Chicago Reader June 23, 2011August 19, 2021

31st Street, between Wells and Parnell

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Best joke in a cemetery

by Chicago Reader June 23, 2011August 19, 2021

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s tombstone

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Best grocery store whose name perfectly matches its products

by Chicago Reader June 23, 2011August 19, 2021

Green Grocer

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Best bartender

by Chicago Reader June 23, 2011August 19, 2021

Jason Turley at Bar Deville

Posted inBest of Chicago

Best venerable restaurant alongside the el

by Chicago Reader June 23, 2011August 19, 2021

Daley’s Restaurant

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Best Chicago writer who also owns a bar

by Chicago Reader June 23, 2011August 19, 2021

Michael Harvey

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Best band-on-band synergy

by Chicago Reader June 23, 2011August 19, 2021

Birth and Den

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Best new evidence that Chicago ain’t ready for reform

by Chicago Reader June 23, 2011August 19, 2021

The new soccer field in Lincoln Park

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