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Restaurants to visit for Chicago Chef Week
Another month, another week of discounted dining. In January we had Chicago Restaurant Week; starting Sunday, and running through March 22, we have Chicago Chef Week, which will feature 75 restaurants offering three-course lunches for $22 and three-course...Tags: Takashi, CLTV, Salads, Dining and Drinking, Belly Shack
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Cater2.me wants to feed you at work
Lunch is serious business for Cater2.me, a corporate catering startup that has joined the fray of companies jostling to feed Chicago's office workers. The company, founded by two friends who met at the University of Pennsylvania, already operates in...
Tags: Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, Chicago Restaurants, Allergies, Lifestyle and Leisure
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'Check, Please!' narrows field for new host
At last, after great deliberation and much wringing of hands, David Manilow made a decision. White smoke rose from a pipe outside the window of his Lincoln Park office. He adjusted the zipper on his navy blue garment, splayed his hands on a conference...
Tags: Consumer Goods Industries, John Lennon, Elections, Celebrities, Dining and Drinking
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Charlie Trotter's auction goes online
Charlie Trotter’s auction is being rebooted online. In December the legendary chef cut short the live auction of his shuttered self-named Lincoln Park restaurant’s contents after only about a third of the 1,500-plus lots had gone up for bid....
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Restaurants, Charlie Trotter, Auction Service, Lifestyle and Leisure
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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: Takashi, Feta Cheese, Arts and Culture, Salads, Music
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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...Tags: Tom Colicchio, Arts and Culture, Dining and Drinking, Charlie Trotter, Bonsoiree
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Michelin snubs: Spots the popular guide ignored
The 2013 Michelin Guide, published last week, awarded stars to 19 Chicago restaurants, and bestowed Bib Gourmands (signifying good restaurants that offer good value) to 19 more. And congratulations to each and every one. But recognizing 38 restaurants...Tags: Dale Levitski, Dining and Drinking, Food Network (tv network), Nellcote, Water Tower
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Hole Foods
Cupcakes are cool. But doughnuts are hot.
A handful of new and relatively new shops are producing the kind of high-quality, limited-quantity, chef-driven doughnuts that truly can be called artisanal products.
Much as cupcake specialists revolutionized...Tags: Pistachios, L2O, Dining and Drinking, Restaurants, Bacon
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Charlie Trotter's pressure cooker
Everyone knows Charlie Trotter as the chef of Charlie Trotter's. It's his name, his restaurant, and he's the boss. But that title “chef” has many meanings, and Trotter has embodied just about all of them during his 25 years at Charlie Trotter'...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Mindy's HotChocolate, Everest, Lifestyle and Leisure
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Scaling the heights
Can a four-star meal begin with fried smelts and end with a Butterfinger bar? My last dinner at Sixteen says yes. These are uncertain times for four-star dining in Chicago. Since last September, four previous top-rated restaurants have closed up shop...
Tags: Avenues, Veal, Dining and Drinking, Foie Gras, Carlos'
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'03 lawsuit challenged work conditions
There are so many opportunities here of rare, rich experiences which I need to thank Chef Trotter for. From the housewives, doctors, and others who come to work as guest chefs to famous chefs like Tetsuya, Toque and Alain Ducasse. I've always learned...
Tags: Travel, Cook County Government, Dining and Drinking, Trips and Vacations, Justice System
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Charlie Trotter preaches excellence to the extreme
Graham Elliot was an aspiring young cook in the late '90s carrying steaks to a party of 20 in the Charlie Trotter's Studio Kitchen when the restaurant's brilliant, mercurial owner stopped him in the hallway and grabbed one of the pieces of meat. "He...
Tags: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Arts and Culture, Dining and Drinking, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Mindy's HotChocolate
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