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Posted inFood & Drink

Get it hot, sweet, and wet on Monday Night Foodball, featuring Hot Mix Beef

by Mike Sula March 2, 2022March 2, 2022

I can’t name two more worldly bon vivants than Eric May and Titus Ruscitti. May, caterer, executive director of Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, and former head chef at Ox-bow School of Art; and Ruscitti, food writer and taco scholar, have eaten prodigiously all over the world—and in every corner and crevice of the […]

Paulina's Pigskin at Monday Night Foodball
Posted inFood & Drink

Here’s season two of Monday Night Foodball

by Mike Sula January 14, 2022January 14, 2022

Monday Night Foodball has been on a holiday hiatus for more than a month, and I’m soooooo bored. I can’t spend another Monday night pacing the empty, echoing void of the Kedzie Inn, balancing imaginary plates of curried lamb ddukboki, Cambodian fried chicken sandwiches, and pimento cheese hash brown jalapeno poppers, plaintively calling out your […]

Iconic Chicago Restaurants Map
Posted inFood & Drink

The Iconic Chicago Restaurants Map

by John Greenfield August 18, 2021September 7, 2021

Along with Chicago’s many beaches and tons of interesting things to do—plus the fact it’s relatively cheap to live here and generally fairly easy to get around without a car—our city’s diverse, affordable, and appetizing eating scene is one of the main things that makes this a terrific place to live. I first came up […]

Posted inFood & Drink

In Bertha Garcia’s hands the elusive chorizo verde is a symphonic sausage

by Mike Sula October 10, 2019August 18, 2021

Green chorizo is now on the menu at Xocome Antojeria.

Posted inBlogs

Generous is the word at Albany Park’s Karam Grill

by Mike Sula October 16, 2018August 18, 2021

Look beyond the grill at this newish Middle Eastern spot.

Posted inBlogs

The return of the great Cafe Marianao to the north side

by Mike Sula June 3, 2018August 18, 2021

Bia’s Cafe Mariano in Irving Park is a tribute to the patriarch of the great Logan Square Cuban loncheria.

Posted inFood & Drink

Morena’s Kitchen is Dominican food for the soul

by Mike Sula February 13, 2018August 18, 2021

The pica pollo at this tiny Belmont Cragin storefront gives a reason to get up in the morning

Posted inBlogs

Shake Shack isn’t too bad at all

by Mike Sula December 22, 2014August 18, 2021

The burger chain New Yorkers starve in line for isn’t worth the wait—but it’s pretty good.

Posted inBlogs

The Jerk Taco Man: A culinary collision of great import

by Mike Sula July 8, 2014August 18, 2021

The west side is home to a great innovation in the taco arts.

Posted inBest of Chicago

Best Taco Scholar

by Mike Sula June 25, 2014August 18, 2021

He has more than 60 spots (and counting) left to publish.

Posted inBlogs

Support sustainability in beermaking, and other food news

by Michael Gebert March 31, 2014August 18, 2021

Your chance to talk some sense and sustainability to the FDA today, and other food news.

Posted inBlogs

Fall cocktails, south-side tacos, and other things to eat, drink, and read

by Michael Gebert October 4, 2013August 19, 2021

Events, happenings, and a hell of a lot of tacos

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