Top Cheffer Stephanie Izard continues her reign over all forms of media, now launching a vidcast,* The Tasty Life, that sees her traipsing around the Chicago area checking out food and beer. We kind of love it — the opening...
Steve Dolinksy, ABC's Hungry Hound and food-guy-about town, once said something that really resonated with us. Discussing the unflattering habit of those blogger types to descend en masse on a restaurant in its early days and then smear its flaws...
Tasting Table, a daily food-related email service in the vein of Thrillist and DailyCandy, focuses today's National dispach on Chicago restaurants. We don't question their choice of restaurants — you'll get a great meal at any of them — but...
If you didn't catch it on the newsstand, Esquire's March issue — all about breakfast — is finally online. The paean to the most important meal of the day is built around centerpiece roundup of the 59 Best Breakfast Places...
Make room in your RSS feeds, kids. Someone told someone, who told someone, who told Emilie at Dirty Dish, that unfairly ousted former Tribune food writer Emily Nunn is taking her next step by... starting a blog! Which, in our...
Kevin Pang, the Tribune's Cheeseburger Bureau Chief, took his very lucky honey to graham elliot for Valentine's Day. He twittered the menu, effusively: Took her to Graham Elliot last night. Amuse: Foielipops - foie gras on a stick coated with...
Yesterday we found out via her Twitter that writer Emily Nunn was laid off from her gig as a staff writer in the Good Eating section of the Tribune. This makes us sad, not only because the slow, painful death...
If there's one thing to be learned from our recent presidential election, it's that the internet has proven to be an invaluable tool in the pursuit of true democracy. Maybe we're biased because, you know, we live on the...
We're suckers for tableware — whether it's L2O's custom-ordered pale blue Riedel water glasses or Alinea's idiosyncratic serviceware from Martin Kastner at Crucial Detail, we love the feeling of excitement and inclusion that comes from using a piece that's truly...
Time Out New York publishes the second in their multi-part series about New York non-professional-chef Michael Cirino (the mastermind behind A Razor, A Shiny Knife) doing a mini-stage in the Alinea kitchen. In part one, he showed up and was...
Tonight just after midnight (or would that be tomorrow?), tune in to WGN to listen to prolific food-writer-about-town Mike Nagrant as he dishes on food with Nick Digilio. If you're far from a physical radio (do people even own those...
We've been really into Twitter lately (you should follow us!), and after we dug up Stephanie Izard's twitter account yesterday, we figured we should share with you the rest of our list of must-read tweeters — most local, but also...
The Trib's Christopher Borrelli reports on diners increasingly requesting separate itemized checks from restaurants. How is this a story? Well, you see, we're in a recession. And there's some anecdotal evidence from Jonathan Fox at La Madia and Ina...
Time Out New York gets the inside scoop on working in the kitchen at Alinea — via A Razor, A Shiny Knife's Michael Cirino, the guy behind the recreations of the Achatz-Keller dinners. How does Cirino know what it's...
So we all watched the Chicago edition of "No Reservations" last night, right? Right? If you didn't, here's a handy guide to faking it around the water cooler, dinner table, IM conversation, or foodblog comments section. First! Catch up on...
Tonight at 9, the entire city will grind to a halt (or at least set their TiVos) for the long-awaited Chicago episode of Anthony Bourdain's show "No Reservations," in which the tall gangly gastronome throws his hat in with some...
In honor of chef Sam Kass's sudden thrust into the celebrity spotlight, let's revisit a June 2008 Tribune article that features "Rethinking Soup," a weekly feature at the Hull House Museum for which Kass provided the sustenance. At the time,...
Credit where credit's due: Time Out Chicago totally called that Sam Kass would be taking his knives to the White House kitchen. Full points for assessing the playing field and knowing the odds. In related news, we would like to...
While we spent our time fretting over the spelling in the headline of a recent article on Barry Sorkin, pitmaster at barbecue mecca Smoque, we should have been paying more attention to the paradox presented in author Michael Nagrant's opening...
The Stew picked up more details on the Alinea movie that everyone's buzzing about. Grant Achatz says he was willing to work with producer R.J. Cutler because he "understands it’s not just about a man’s victory over Stage 4...