Bar Novo To Offer 'Classy' Buffalo Wings
The Renaissance Hotel's new bar will offer a "truffalo wing."
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Thursday Night at the Museum: Prix Fixe at Terzo Piano
A refined new dinner option from Tony Mantuano.
Now Open in River North: e.leaven Food Company
A Chicago outpost of the Jackson Hole, WY, brunch spot lands downtown.
Gibson's Waiter: Johnny Depp Has Always Been Generous
In town for the premiere of Public Enemies, Johnny Depp and a few famous friends — Marion Cotillard, Michael Mann, the usual &mdsah; swung by Gibson's Steakhouse for dinner. They proceeded to drop over $4,000 on dinner — and another...
Profit From Your Hangover at Hub 51's Brunch
After being open nearly a year and having packed tables the whole time, tomorrow marks Hub 51's official foray into brunch territory. But just because it's 10 a.m. on a weekend doesn't mean that the restaurant wants you to keep...
Naha Enters NRN Hall Of Fame
Mazel tov to Naha and its chef, Carrie Nahabedian — the restaurant has been included in the 2009 class of inductees for the Fine Dining Hall of Fame, as determined by Nation's Restaurant News. [MPWire]...
Sunda For Lunch: Banh Mi and Combo Plates
It's the topic of seemingly endless food-person chatter that Sunda, the pan-Asian juggernaut from scene-master Billy Dec and chef Rodelio Aglibot, is packing them into the dining room even at 10pm on a Tuesday night in the middle of...
Keep Your Jacket On At Spiaggia
The July issue of Esquire addresses an important issue: When restaurants indicate that jackets are required, may a diner remove his sport coat to eat, or is he obligated to wear it the entire time? While restaurants like New York's...
Cyrano's Cafe Cited For Propane Explosion
Cyrano's Cafe (the seasonal Riverwalk sister restaurant to Cyrano's Bistrot) has been cited with a number of fire code violations after yesterday's propane gas explosion, which sent four people to the hospital. Violations include "improper installation of lines and valves...
What's New at Nacional 27
With spring come menu revamps, and it's particularly exciting to note what's in store at Nacional 27. The pan-Latin restaurant is introducing its take on Brazilian-style churrascaria service with their new "Gaucho BBQ" program, where skewers of meat and...
The Berghoff: Chicago's Oldest Restaurant (Sort Of)
Business Week has rounded up a list of America's 20 oldest restaurants. Making the chronological cut was our very own Berghoff, which was founded in 1898. While the original Berghoff closed in 2006, its 107-year history presumably qualified the...
Bayless Employee Needs Reconstructive Surgery After A Restaurant Accident
Rick Bayless twittered last night "Server just tripped UP stairs w bus tub of glasses. Severed tendons n fingers, slit wrist. Blood everywhere. Carried nextdoor 2 paramedics." He followed it up a few hours later with "Server who had...
Quartino Restaurateur Buys His Own Space
Recession? What recession? Steven Lombardo, the restaurateur behind Quartino, has purchased the restaurant's real estate from its previous owners in a deal valued at about $5.8 million dollars. The river north location has over 14,000 square feet of space, and...
More's Cocktail Cupcakes Require Carding*
We were gearing up to write a post about how More Cupcakes's cupcake happy hour — complimentary cocktail-inspired cupcakes, every Friday from 5pm-7pm — was a great workaround alternative for all you Lent observers who gave up alcohol but are...
Grand Old History at the Palmer House
A photograph of Lockwood's brownie dessert (available a la carte at lunch and on the dinner prix fixe) gives rise to a moving meditation from chef Phillip Foss on his restaurant's location inside the Palmer House Hilton. The story goes...
Talk About Your Food Porn
312 Dining Diva points out that the new brunch flyer from ajasteak gets a little risque in its egg promotion. We can't help but think that they're flagrantly mixing their innuendos. The old "how do you like your eggs" line...
$16 Brunch Deal at SushiSamba is Chicago-Only
Looks like New York is cranky that the Chicago location of SushiSamba Rio offers three complimentary cocktails included with their $16 prix-fixe brunch special, but the Big Apple's locations of the latin-Japanese fusion restaurant don't. To which we say: Neener...
Andrew Zimmern Loves Paradise Pup, Can't Stand SushiSamba Rio
Professional shock-eater Andrew Zimmern was in Chicago recently, and had "some great food, some of the best in recent memory." Specifically, he's referring to Des Plains' Paradise Pup (1724 S. River Rd., Des Plaines, 847 699 8590), which he calls...
Morton's Special Birthday Menu
Even though it's now got nearly 80 locations worldwide, Morton's The Steakhouse is a quintessentially Chicago institution. Those tourist-held stereotypes of Gordon Gekko-esque cigar-chomping, gruff-voiced businessmen tucking in to a bloody steak as they decide the fate of the CME?...