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Summer Eating List
Summer is the sweet season for restaurants. Fresh produce is abundant, daylight lasts longer and restaurants are busier and bigger (with the addition of outdoor seats) than at any other time of the year. So once again I'm trotting out my Summer Eating...
Tags: Jack Weiss, Stephanie Izard, Arami, Lettuce, River North
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Taste of Chicago restaurants announced
Tribune criticThe City of Chicago today released the names of the 35 restaurants that will be participating in this year's Taste of Chicago, held July 10-14 in Grant Park. There are a lot of familiar faces in the lineup, including Eli's Cheesecake (which has never...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Pizzas, Chicago Restaurants, Foods and Beverages, Original Rainbow Cone
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Eating strategically for health
Restaurant Michael in Winnetka feels a bit like stepping back into the famed Le Francais dining room in Wheeling, except it's cozier, a touch more casual, with brighter lighting and upbeat jazz gently playing on the speakers. It all makes sense because...
Tags: Spiaggia, Lifestyle and Leisure, Chicago Restaurants, Wicker Park, Restaurants
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Phil Vettel recommends
A roundup of restaurants reviewed in 2012 by critic Phil Vettel.
Acadia ✭✭✭ 1639 S. Wabash Ave., 312-360-9500. Ryan McCaskey's gamble to place a luxury restaurant in the South Loop is, so far, paying off. People are crowding into...Tags: Grant Achatz, Music, Chicago Hotels, Les Nomades, Sprout
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Go alfresco
Summer's here, and the time is right for eating in the street. Or near the street. Or in a bottle-service cabana high above the street.
Chicagoans love outdoor-dining season, all the more so because of its short duration. There are precious few days in...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Sandwiches, Arts and Culture, Perennial Virant, Music
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Taste of Chicago returns
It's safe to say that nobody knows what to expect from this year's Taste of Chicago.
Stripped down to five days from its usual 10, the number of food vendors trimmed to 40 (compared with 59 in 2011) and separated from its traditional Fourth of July...Tags: Grant Park, Lifestyle and Leisure, Taste of Chicago, Pizzas, Millennium Park
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Chefs to serve as culinary diplomats
Move over, all you Hillary Clinton and Henry Kissinger wanna-bes. Here come Chicago’s Rick Bayless, Tony Mantuano and Art Smith, along with 87 other renowned chefs, willing to perform a little kitchen diplomacy on behalf of the U.S. Department of...Tags: Spiaggia, United Nations, National Government, Food Industry, Henry Kissinger
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8 new summer brunches
RedEyeBeach trips and picnics are summer fun staples, but there’s nothing like lazing away an afternoon at brunch. Forgo your regular haunt and consider checking out the new brunch service at these eight restaurants. As an added bonus, five have outdoor...Tags: Graham Elliot, Lifestyle and Leisure, Tomatoes, Breads, Waffles
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Chef Susan Feniger pops into town for dinner, book signing
Tribune reporterChef Susan Feniger heads to town Aug. 16 to celebrate her latest cookbook “Susan Feniger’s Street Food” (Clarkson Potter) with a book signing/demo at Williams-Sonoma on Michigan Avenue and a pop-up restaurant at Tony Mantuano’s...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Restaurants, Kitchen Products and Supplies, Michigan Avenue, Dining and Drinking
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Lady Gaga sightings in Chicago -- lots of restaurant visits but, curiously, not a lot of clubs
What do Chicago restaurants Spiaggia, Table Fifty-Two, Girl and the Goat and Topolobampo have in common? They all feature former “Top Chef” and “Top Chef Masters” contestants in their kitchens. And, not coincidentally, they’...
Tags: Stephanie Izard, River North, NBC (tv network), Sarah Grueneberg, Lady Gaga
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Taste of Chicago: Same as it ever was
Buoyed by near-perfect weather, Taste of Chicagoreturned to Grant Parkon Wednesday to a substantial lunchtime crowd that looked very much like opening-day Taste crowds from years past. Concerns that this 32nd Taste of Chicago would be poorly attended,...
Tags: Graham Elliot, Lifestyle and Leisure, Tomatoes, Stephanie Izard, Taste of Chicago
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Fine dining stakes claim in Berwyn
To corrupt an old saying, the good Lord never closes a condo without opening a bungalow.
Berwyn is on the rise. The financial crisis has turned the near west suburb into a hot spot of affordable housing, and young couples and families are crowding in....Tags: Spiaggia, Autre Monde, Lifestyle and Leisure, Pancakes, Salads
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Jul 11, 2012
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