Carnivale Carnivale Includes a DJ, stilt walker, Samba dancers, a balloon drop and champagne toast at midnight at 702 W. Fulton St., Chicago. The menu features dishes from Central and South America, The Caribbean, Cuba and Spain. Reservations ...
Tonight at 7:30 PM, Barn & Company will host the inaugural dinner in its new Pitmaster Series, a three-course prix fixe rib dinner with pairings featuring the barbecue of Gary Wiviott. On the menu: a “welcome cocktail...
When a restaurant is as fastidious and dedicated as Goosefoot, a new prix-fixe-only Ravenswood restaurant from former Les Nomades chef Ch...
From the events hopper: Paul Virant's book The Preservation Kitchen comes out in April, and we'll surely cover it more extensively closer to when you can actually buy it, but in the meantime, Vie in Western Springs planned an event to mark the occ...
Chicago bloggers share their picks for the Eat Out Awards.
Adam Seger's 'Moet Red Carpet Glamour' cocktail. (Photo: Tuan Bui)It's a big weekend for Hollywood types who are on pins and needles for the annual Academy Awards show on Sunday. But I'm more excited for Adam Seger, who won Moet's first-ever cockt...
MY PRIVATE CHEF BRINGS SWEET WINTER WARMTH TO WHOLE FOODS MARKET Chef Christopher Tong of the upscale Chicago-based private gourmet dining service, My Private Chef returns to Whole Foods with a trio of delicious chocolate delights to carry ...
The Slow and Savory ReviewGrowing up, Brandy was never one much for sport, for as a young woman, her pursuits and interests mainly lay in the arts. But during one of Brandy's first visits to Chicago, she was taken to a baseball game at Wrigl...
Fiamico - Waukegan, IL VIEW SLIDE SHO...
Well, I know it’s a week past, but I thought I’d share what I made at home for Valentine’s Day. I did just a couple of simple dishes but they came out quite nice and... Yeah... there's way more deliciousness on my site...
If you’ve never had a pączki (pronounced PUNCH-kie), it’s a traditional Polish pastry made before the start of Lent to use up all the eggs, lard, sugar and fruit in the house. In fact, Fat Tuesday is sometimes referred to as Pączki Day...
For some reason I imagined Arizona as a scene out of a John Wayne movie, complete with cowboy hats, tumbleweeds and watering holes. Isn’t Arizona considered a part of the Wild West? Aren’t there deadly scorpions lingering in your sho...
Stephanie Izard, David Burke, Tony Mantuano (Spiaggia), Tony Priolo (Piccolo Sogno), Mayor Emanuel and many other prominent culinary figures were on hand at The Great Hall – Union Station to support the Greater Chicago Food Depository. The Chica...
Spring is coming, we promise. As evidence of the fact, The Peterson Garden Project will host a seed swap on March 4 from 2 to 5 PM. It's a chance to exchange some of your favorite fruits, vegetables, and herbs for next season's "wish list." Trade ...
Outside of it being the picture perfect night and in check of a great waiter who was nothing less than perfect, my little sister got terribly lost and that set the stage for the entire evening. I’ve never quite laughed so hard between the bites of...
Sliced thin, lightly breaded and fried in olive oil, then dipped in red sauce and assembled like a lasagna! &n...
By Cindy Kurman and Lee BarrieOriginally published in Streetwise magazineFor ten days beginning February 18 through February 27, Chicago celebrates Restaurant Week, with more than 200 restaurants offering special prix fixe menus at $22 for lunch a...
t's Ash Wednesday, the start of the abstemious season of Lent. You might be giving up meat on Fridays, but that doesn't mean you can't eat well. Check out these recipes from Chicago restaurants.
If you are cooking for two, like me, you are probably wondering what to do with all of those leftover Mexican Salmon Cakes. Well I have the perfect solution for you...Mexican Salmon Cake stuffed Peppers. That's what we had for dinner last nig...
The middleof February is just about the time the winter blues can take over. Fortunately,there’s a holiday ready to clear those blues right up!National Margarita Day is February 22, 2012, and Guanajuato Contemporary Mexican and Tequila Bar (73 Gre...
I had such success with the turkey breast I brined for some pastrami around Thanksgiving, plus some other basic curing projects. All successfull, and something I am finding I am good at. Past cures have been done with Tender Quick, or a sugar k...
Some of my favorite things about growing up were the traditions my parents established and practiced. My sister and I had something to look forward to on all the important and unimportant holidays. Each Easter we awoke to a pair of almost-mat...
What better way to kill time in Salt Lake before heading to the airport than hang out in an award winning brew pub? Maybe drinking in Utah to pass time sounds like the start of a joke but it's not. Squatters Beer has some of the best varieties in ...
A Turkey-Day Tale of Tom-Foolery and Cheating. (Yum!) For this story, we flash back to my freshman year at Franklin & Marshall College. I was living in a dorm at the time. It was a week or so before Thanksgiving and when we showed up...
Location: 2629 W Devon AvenueCost: About $15 per personWhen I first started med school I was assigned a "big sibling" to help me get acclimated. Just to clarify, everyone gets a big sibling (it's not like I was some lost cause or anything like tha...
I had you at bacon. So, what’s up with calling them deviled? If we’re going to bring the devil into this, shouldn’t they be called the devil’s eggs? As in sinfully delicious? Or maybe devil is a verb in this case. Did I somehow devil them...
The Monkey's Spoon will be @ bopNgrill tonight for a Korean Cuisine tasting!!
…it’s what’s for linner. It’s that in-between time when the lunch hour has passed but dinner is still far off on the horizon. Welcome to Linnertime. Rather than reaching for those salty’n sweet treats from the vending...
So this past weekend I went back to Chicago to visit bf. We had a lovely time with our families and even had time for date night and a lovely dinner at Arami for Valentine's day (pics to follow). After dinner we had an impromptu cocktail at the Vi...
We celebrated my Cuzband’s Birthday [Cousin's Husband] just before Christmas at this delightful little French Bistro – Bistro Bordeaux in Evanston. Absolutely charming, and feels authentically French, and loved that we just happened to...
-Grubbing in ChicagoWhere everyone now eats.Almost a year ago, Chicago, was blessed with yet another eating establishment that was sure to be in your regular rotation once you ate there. Even better than this was the fact 'The Pleasant House Baker...
The Next New Things – Next/El Bulli – Chicago There can be no doubt that the El Bulli meal, currently being prepared to the lucky few at Grant Achatz’s (and David Beran’s) stylish restaurant Next is an event. Perhaps too much of one, as museum ret...