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Sidewalk chefs serve up taste of Pimlico
After 25 Preaknesses, Annette Thomas has her routine, and recipes, down pat. Thirty pounds of ribs, both pork and beef, marinated overnight in vinegar and soy sauce, then grilled in front of her house on Saturday. Fifty pounds of red-skin potatoes &#...
Tags: Foods and Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure, Salads, Immigration, Preakness Stakes
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Phil Vettel: Two stars for Boarding House
The first thing that catches your eye when entering The Boarding House is the chandelier. Except it's not really a chandelier, but an art installation consisting of 9,000-plus (official count: 9,063) suspended wine glasses. "One glass for every wine I'...
Tags: Foods and Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure, Bacon, Kale, Parsnips
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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: Chicago Hotels, Sixteen, Chicago Restaurants, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, L2O
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Ria chef gets it right
Taste, as a jazz musician once noted, is manifested in the notes one declines to play. In that regard, Danny Grant is a taste master.
The original chef de cuisine and now executive chef at Ria, the magnificent dining room within the Elysian hotel and...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Caviar, WGN, Charlie Trotter, Foie Gras
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Let's break out the old crystal ball
Time once again for my annual exercise in humiliation, as I try to predict the star recipients in the 2013 Michelin Chicago Guide, which hits bookstores Wednesday. This is the third year that Michelin has published a Chicago guide, and if there's one...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Sixteen, Sprout, Topolobampo, Chicago Restaurants
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Indian-born adviser to Leo Burnett, colleagues navigates digital world
Tribune staff reporterOn a warm September day in Chicago, Rishad Tobaccowala counseled a roomful of Leo Burnett executives on how to sell high-tech gadgets -- told in terms of hot dogs. Tobaccowala, who has spent 30 years at Leo Burnett and affiliated agencies,...Tags: University of Chicago, Invention and Innovation, Chicago Hotels, Chicago Restaurants, Google Inc.
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A year after closing restaurant, chef pops up ... where?
Chef moves where? Readers will sometimes write in about a restaurant that’s been gone for 10 or more years, wondering what happened. Maybe they don’t get out much, but even frequent restaurant-goers can get so distracted with all the new...
Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Restaurants
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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: Foods and Beverages, Lifestyle and Leisure, Sixteen, Chicago Hotels, Heather Terhune
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Critic's Choice: Hearty breakfasts worth a wake-up call
Los Angeles Times Restaurant CriticI'm always receiving emails or texts from friends needing to know (right away!) where to go for breakfast in this or that neighborhood. The first meal of the day is ideal for catching up with friends or meeting up with a colleague or out-of-town visitor....Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Jams and Jellies, Father's Office, Restaurants
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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: Lifestyle and Leisure, Foods and Beverages, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, L2O, Restaurants
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Waldorf Astoria preserves Elysian luxury
![As they say across the pond, "The King is dead! Long live the King!"](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-02/68362115-24193140.jpg "As they say across the pond, "The King is dead! Long live the King!\"")
As they say across the pond, "The King is dead! Long live the King!"
Such is the case for the former Elysian Chicago, a five-diamond hotel recently ranked No. 1 in the country by the readers of Conde Nast Traveler. Hilton bought the Gold Coast hotel late...Tags: Gold Coast, Chicago Hotels, Chicago Transit Authority, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Michelin Group
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City health inspections tough even for toniest of restaurants
Close watchers of Chicago's food scene may have been surprised to learn that Alinea — one of the most highly regarded restaurants in the city and the world — failed its routine health inspection a month ago.
But what may seem like a big...Tags: Chicago Restaurants, Consumer Goods Industries, Restaurants, River North, Soups
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