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Review: Embeya
Review: Embeya 564 W. Randolph St. 312-612-5640 Rating: !!! (out of four) Off to a good start It seems like there's a new restaurant opening in the West Loop every other week these days, and Thai Dang, the chef of recently opened Embeya, is just happy to...
Tags: Coconut, Restaurants, Design and Engineering, Avec, Dining and Drinking
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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: Pump Room, Mindy's HotChocolate, Restaurants, Salads, Sprout
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Oh, the places they didn't go
When Charlie Trotter announced, just past the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day, that he would be closing his eponymous Chicago restaurant at the end of August, quite a few people vowed to get to Charlie Trotter's, one last time or even for the very...Tags: Brooklyn (New York City), Bryan Voltaggio, Graham Elliot, Restaurants, Services and Shopping
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Chicago nabs two five-star hotels, three restaurants from Forbes Travel Guide
Tribune newspapersTwo Chicago hotels and three restaurants have been awarded the top five-star designation in the annual Forbes Travel Guide ratings. The honored hotels were the Four Seasons and The Peninsula, and the restaurants were Alinea, Charlie Trotter's and L2O....Tags: Graham Elliot, Alinea, Chicago Hotels, Tour Operations Industry, Hotels and Accommodations
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Chicago ties NYC for most AAA Five-Diamond restaurants
Tribune criticThe AAA Five- and Four-Diamond Awards for restaurants and hotels were announced this morning, and Chicago wound up tied with New York with the most five-diamond restaurants in North America. All of Chicago's Five-Diamond restaurants or hotels were repeat...Tags: Arun's, Manufacturing and Engineering, Carlos', Spiaggia, Alinea
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Please be seated
You can't count on snow for Christmas. You can't count on a 7-3 Bears team making the playoffs.
But you can count on my annual save-the-tables list, which provides dozens of last-minute, primo New Year's Eve reservations for procrastinating readers....Tags: North Pond, Pump Room, Restaurants, Sepia, Avec
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Melmans, Rancics to partner on new restaurant
Tribune criticWe now know the fate of the Ben Pao space (52 W. Illinois St.), which is closing in two weeks. The Melman siblings (RJ, Jerrod, Molly) will partner with Bill and Giuliana Rancic to create an Italian restaurant in the space. Think there will be a...Tags: Chicago, Television, New York, Restaurants, Style Network (tv network)
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Some up-and-coming chefs are skipping culinary school
Cole Dickinson, the chef de cuisine at Michael Voltaggio's soon-to-open West Hollywood restaurant, Ink, got his culinary education the old-fashioned way: in the kitchen.
That might sound obvious, but it makes him something of an anomaly as the number...Tags: Restaurants, Corporate Crime, Recipes, Wages and Pensions, Juvenile Delinquency
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Stargazing: Phil Vettel handicaps Michelin-star winners
As the second Michelin Guide for Chicago prepares to hit bookstores next week, one thing is for sure: There will be change.
There has to be. Among the 23 restaurants that received one or more stars, Sixteen (one star) saw chef Frank Brunacci depart,...Tags: Avenues, Sepia, Restaurants, Sprout, Vie
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At home with Carla Corona, M Street Kitchen's pastry chef
L.A. at HomeCarla Corona: Pastry chef Carla Corona’s home kitchen is not particularly large, nor refined in its finishes, nor loaded with gonzo equipment. It’s humble. And to Corona, it’s perfect. A look at a modest kitchen that serves as a symbol... -
Are prix fixe menus worthwhile?
LakeviewThe grass is always greener on my date’s plate. Which is why I love dining at places like Chizakaya (3056 N. Lincoln Ave.), Lakeview’s Japanese pub that opened last fall. The small, shareable plates and low lights mean your companion won&#... -
Making Chicago's top chef
Tribune reporterGrant Achatz moved up the aisle of the plane, his carry-on draped over his gaunt frame. It was October at Reagan National Airport, a rare moment of calm for Chicago's top chef, whose wary eyes belong to a man older than 36, and whose life has been blessed...Tags: Television, Avenues, Hospitals and Clinics, James Beard, Ethan Hawke
Sep 28, 2012
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