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Cook by numbers
RedEyeAll the ingredients for Gina Hutchings' dinners lately have come from the same package, but the meals she cooks are far from mac and cheese. Instead, she's eating chipotle fish tacos with jicama-radish slaw, lime and guacamole—or a mushroom-and-...Tags: Diets and Dieting, Vegetarian Diet, Recipes
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Greening up the West Loop
Change of SubjectBy Jessica Reynolds Chicago architect Scott Sarver of the firm smdp has a plan to spruce up the West Loop. Among his many ideas detailed recently in The Architect's Newspaper, he wants to cover the trench of the Kennedy Expressway...... -
30 dishes to eat while visiting Chicago
RedEyeYou've already waited in line for popcorn at Garrett. You've endured verbal abuse at The Wieners Circle. And you've devoured the Chicago classic that is the Italian beef sandwich (Al's #1 and Johnnie's being the best, depending on who you ask). So...Tags: Original Rainbow Cone, Italy, Lifestyle and Leisure, West Loop, Giordano's Enterprises Inc.
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Beyond the usual 'burger bar' label
Appreciating Three Aces in Little Italy requires two approaches: one for the burger bar identity locals know it for, and the other, a surprisingly refined Nightwood-esque restaurant waiting to be embraced by greater Chicago. The first squares with this...Tags: Italy, Lifestyle and Leisure, Restaurants, Hamburgers, Avondale
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Phil Vettel recommends
![<i>A roundup of restaurants reviewed in 2012 by critic <a href="http://bio.tribune.com/PhilVettel">Phil Vettel</a>.</i>](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2013-01/73864216-10105924.jpg "<i>A roundup of restaurants reviewed in 2012 by critic <a href="http://bio.tribune.com/PhilVettel\">Phil Vettel</a>.</i>")
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: Customs and Tradition, Tony Mantuano, Shrimp, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Trips and Vacations
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A potluck kind of year
![If only it were so easy to pithily proclaim 2012 as the Year of the (fill-in-the-blank). But there's really no one thread that neatly ties together the Chicago restaurant scene these last 12 months. A restaurant that put Chicago on the culinary map 25 years ago closed its doors. Doughnuts became "a thing." Digging up mushrooms from the forest preserve took on high status.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2013-01/73864214-02140552.jpg "If only it were so easy to pithily proclaim 2012 as the Year of the (fill-in-the-blank). But there's really no one thread that neatly ties together the Chicago restaurant scene these last 12 months. A restaurant that put Chicago on the culinary map 25 years ago closed its doors. Doughnuts became "a thing.\" Digging up mushrooms from the forest preserve took on high status.")
If only it were so easy to pithily proclaim 2012 as the Year of the (fill-in-the-blank). But there's really no one thread that neatly ties together the Chicago restaurant scene these last 12 months. A restaurant that put Chicago on the culinary map 25...Tags: Sarah Grueneberg, Alinea, Seasons Restaurant, Blackbird, Slurping Turtle
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Hold the boeuf?
There are at least three things you can count on at every Brendan Sodikoff restaurant. There will be a retro-cool, dimly lit atmosphere. There will be bread; roasted bone marrow with toast is a menu given. And there will be great soap in the restroom....
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Gilt Bar, Dining and Drinking, Shrimp
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2012 bar and restaurant review: Highs, lows and delicious trends
RedEyeWhen it comes to adventures in dining and drinking, Chicago definitely delivered this year. Hot chefs expanded their empires with new restaurants. New words made their way into our nightlife vocabulary. And, of course, there were doughnuts. And pie. And...Tags: Bonsoiree, Lifestyle and Leisure, Restaurants, Blackbird, Phil Vettel
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Summer eating list
![I don't know if teachers still do this, but at the end of each school year, I was handed a summer reading list, a sheet of required and optional books that would prepare students for the coming school year. (I still owe a measure of revenge to the teacher who saddled me with "Lord Jim.")](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/column/2012-05/69977467-16161858.jpg "I don't know if teachers still do this, but at the end of each school year, I was handed a summer reading list, a sheet of required and optional books that would prepare students for the coming school year. (I still owe a measure of revenge to the teacher who saddled me with "Lord Jim.\")")
I don't know if teachers still do this, but at the end of each school year, I was handed a summer reading list, a sheet of required and optional books that would prepare students for the coming school year. (I still owe a measure of revenge to the teacher...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Oakbrook Center, Seasons Restaurant, Entertainment, Restaurants
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Burger review: Au Cheval
Au Cheval 800 W. Randolph St. 312-929-4580 Rating: !! (out of 4) Hailing from the land of culinary refinement that is New Jersey, the Great Burgerelli spent many formative burger-consuming years perched atop a diner stool. From this vantage point, I...
Tags: Butter, Lifestyle and Leisure, Breads, Pickles, Foods and Beverages
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Nov 1, 2012
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Dec 19, 2012
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May 17, 2012
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Jun 19, 2012
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