Aren't those pictures up there pretty? They're from our new Flickr pool, and they are, from left, a luscious-looking burger from Feed taken by ehfisher, some New Tokyo takeout from D. Majette, and a spinach salad at Mia Francesca...
Do you chronicle your every bite with your trusty pocket cam? Is your talent for gluttony matched only by your facility with an F-stop? Does your cell phone see more photo action around meal time than any other time?...
As far as we're concerned it's been a highly successful Beard Week here at MenuPages Chicago. Okay, so the Media awards aren't until Sunday, and the Chef/Restaurant awards are all the way over on Monday night, but we're calling this...
So, here we are. Posting will be light for the rest of the week, as we're taking a long weekend in service of some much-needed indulgence of vices. Here's a hint: Gambling is legal, there are lots of naked ladies,...
Here at MenuPages Chicago, we add new restaurants to the site every day, whether they're just-opened or just-acquired-a-fax-machine. Here's a selection of what's new and notable this week. • Delicious Cafe (de.li.cious) • Feast Gold Coast • Pizzeria Brandi...
The recent spate of lawsuits against reviewers on a certain MenuPages competitor website that I will not name has given me a perfect opportunity to babble about the part of my job that is vetting user reviews. Unlike many user-review...
Part and parcel with our facelift — okay, they're unrelated, but as long as we're telling you about new and cool things — you can now follow the MenuPages Chicago blog on Twitter. All our blog posts get up...
Amidst all this Hope and Change and Inauguration and A New Day for America, you might have noticed that it is also A New Day For MenuPages. Mais oui, kids, the old orange-and-blue site design that's been kicking around...
I made a few New Years resolutions as the clock struck twelve last Wednesday. Have better posture, call my mom more often, counteract all that charcuterie and pho by getting off my lazy butt and exercising, and so on. I've...
Well, kiddos, we're out for the holidays. (That is, assuming we can get out in the face of all this snow — what's up, canceled flights!) Over the next two weeks you might see sporadic posts — an FYI...
monday to saturday, slicess, lxneless texaus of chicken, liked with spiaght nut improted creda ice chheese topped with eightmustarmn sauce rice or potato.A menu item from Roditys Restaurant, as it was entered into the MP systembefore we ran it through...
We were talking to our boss the other day, and out of nowhere he said "Hey, what's the deal with The Publican?" "What do you mean?" we replied, because The Publican kind of transcends the notion of having a deal....
While we are perhaps excessively materialistic every other time of year, Thanksgiving is a time to take stock of the spiritual pantry, such as it is. It's all fine and good to say we're thankful for the Alinea cookbook...
We just spent a very long time writing a very long post and then Firefox crashed and we lost everything and we still feel kind of sick from yesterday's battle with The Mystery Throat Illness Of Doom (did you miss...
A little over a year after we lamented the lack of a website for the multi-locationed Mac Kelly's Greens n' Things, we were surprised to see a comment show up on the post:finally a web site www.mackellysintheloop.comKids: Don't let anyone...
What's new over on the main MenuPages Chicago site? Just one of the loving American couplesthat spends V-day at Spiaggia. • First and foremost, feast your eyes on the menu for Farmerie 58, the surprise addition to the Fall restaurant...
You read that right. As if our hot dogs, pizza, and Italian beef — oh, and the Taste — weren't enough, Chicago is putting itself on the haute culinary map this weekend with the inaugural Chicago Gourmet, a weekend-long...
We'll be slow on posting for the rest of today and most of tomorrow, for exciting surprise reasons that will be revealed unto you if you are patient and lovely. Which you totally are. If you're craving content, go re-read...
The Sun-Times appears to have taken today off in terms of restaurant reviews. We can sort of see where they're coming from — we're out of the office as of about four seconds after hitting "publish" on this post,...
Your talented editor Helen has asked me to write a post letting all you devoted readers know that her computer is down. She did not ask me to write a post about the Chicago food scene, but I feel...
