The Reader's Mike Sula headed over to Millennium park last night for the launch of the much-buzzed Alinea cookbook. Hijinx ensued. Alinea cookbook launch: burning leaves and shattered glass [Food Chain] Alinea [MenuPages]Alinea [Official Site]...
Our RSS feed is trying to kill us. Within minutes of one another, we get the following, from Serious Eats and from Chicagoist, respectively: The Fatty Melt, a beef patty sandwiched between two separate grillled-cheese sandwiches, and... The Inside-Out Burger...
Over at Chicagoist, L. Stolpman has a sit-down with Beverly Kim, executive chef at haute-Chinese South Loop restaurant Opera, who is one of the youngest and most accomplished female chefs in the country. Along with a bevy of mouthwatering...
If you do nothing else in the next week or two, be sure to allot nineteen minutes to check out the latest edition of Sky Full of Bacon, Mike Gebert's HD vidcast of all things food-related. This episode centers around...
We are now entering the portion of the day when our brain enters pre-lunch mode, and all we can think about is how much we deeply, desperately want any food that crosses our awareness (so far this morning we have...
After all the hype surrounding Chicago Gourmet, we have to cop to a tiny bit of schadenfreude when reading all the "where's the food?" complaints, but ultimately we were rooting for the food festival to pull off its freshman effort....
The TOC Blog breaks the news of who'll be helming the forthcoming no-doubt-going-to-be-awesome Eater Chicago site: Ari Bendersky (left), whose email link Tamarkin has set to give the auto-subject line "Hey sexy!" Ahem. Get an internet-room, you two. Meanwhile, we...
We're a little cranky today. Let's see if you can tell.Maybe he's responding to Mike Nagrant's declaration earlier this week that he doesn't think Pat Bruno is a good reviewer, but Bruno is deviating from form yet again this...
There are, as Mike Sula points out in this week's Reader review, no Cambodian restaurants in Chicago. So to dive into the cuisine of the south Asian country, he finds a backdoor: The festival of Pchum Ben, Ancestors' Day,...
Monica Eng's sit-down with a bunch of Chicago chefs is so full of fodder that we are actually sitting here in a state of disarray, so much is there that we want to talk about. It is glorious. Eng sits...
In honor of their publication's 40th anniversary, the snuggleable writers over at TOC have ID'd 40 Chicagoans as "Cultural Heroes." Among the enricheners of societal fabric are four food names: Top Chef Stephanie Izard, LEYE wine maven Alpana Singh, and...
Our required Tribune and Sun-Times and Reader reading aside, we are pretty huge fans of the New York Times. We have many a fond memory of sitting in the kitchen on a Sunday morning, pen in hand, attempting to fill...
As we've mentioned, David Tamarkin of Time Out Chicago has a piece up today attacking the locavore/localvore movement. It's been getting plenty of attention, but we uncovered this hidden gem in the comments section of Chicagoist's notation of the piece:Tamarkin...
• Now that the Maxwell Street market has moved again, how on earth are you going to find your favoreenie stewed-goat vendor without that touristy look of blank confusion? Enter TOC's map and guide, complete with ordering recommendations for...
That old saw about how the average American meal travels 1500 miles from farm to table? It is a giant lie! That number is totally wrong! Um, for everyone except Chicago:Researchers have done little work to calculate food miles...
This morning we noticed that a Christopher Borrelli article on a local gelateuse was a repeat of an earlier article, and we raised an allcaps eyebrow. A source emails us an explanation:"Good Eating is a zoned section. Some zones are...
To some people, "GNR" conjures visions of Axl, Slash, Stephanie Seymour in a remote desert church, and karaoke hangovers. To us, they are among the three most drool-inducing letters in the Latin alphabet (also in the running: p-i-e). They stand...
We sort of feel brain dead after doing that Gebert/Nagrant round up. Which just might be the perfect state in which to read the Sun-Times' dining reviews. Zing! Badum-chhhh! Heyo! • Hold up! Stop the presses! Pat Bruno dislikes a...
OKAY PEOPLE, IT HAS HIT. Remember how we reported on Serious Eats's City Guides? And how Mike Gebert took on SE with his own Chicago guide? And then how we shamelessly fomented a rivalry between the SE team and Gebert?...
Today's Tribune dining section, quickly posted before you leave the glow of your computer screen, the deep yet undeniably digital embrace of this blog and its love for you, to be with your real family and friends. Not that...