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You’ve probably got South America on the mind this week. What with John Manion’s new Argentine-inspired restaurant that just opened in the West Loop and all. And the Olympics. Those, too. But back to that first, more pressing matter: the restaurant is called El Che Bar, it’s equal parts sexy and funky, and it’s your new destination for braised lamb ribs,
A great lunchtime renaissance is upon us. It involves Antique Taco. It involves Smoque BBQ. It involves you browsing records while sipping a banana-liqueur-fortified milkshake topped with a cookie from Mindy Segal. It involves the company behind such places as Longman & Eagle, Dusek’s and the Promontory corralling all these things and more into one
It’s already the middle of August; soon, it will be September. The leaves will change. Warm breezes will take a turn for the brisker. And before you know it, you’ll have missed your chance to pleasantly while away an hour or two at the Polish Triangle, enjoying housemade breakfast sandwiches, pork shoulder Cubans and Bow Truss coffee... Unless, of
From the two Charlie Trotter vets who brought you the casual basement tavern known as The Loyalist, comes... Hold. Hold. ... Something really fucking fantastic right upstairs from it. To be less blunt: it’s called Smyth, and it’s the homey, tasting-menu-only counterpart to that very fine basement tavern. It’s open now in the West Loop. The inside is
By now, you’ve probably heard that our fair city’s premier (and, well... only) culinary incubator/fine-dining establishment, Intro, is debuting its latest chef on Thursday. His name is Jonah Reider. He’s 22 years old. And the last kitchen he ran was a critically acclaimed four-seat tasting-menu restaurant called Pith. It was based out of his college dorm
On Monday night, Hillary Clinton and the former host of The Celebrity Apprentice will take the stage to present their visions for America’s future. And you... You’ll be sitting on a patio eating fried ice cream. Who’s to say which activity will be more productive. All we know for certain is that you’ll be doing your thing at Tuco and Blondie, a boisterous
Plenty of fine Italian establishments produce pastas and wood-fired pizzas. Very few also produce cheese curds and fries smothered in braised pork and Dijon gravy. And by very few, we mean just this one place in the whole wide world. It’s called Terra & Vine, it’s master sommelier Alpana Singh’s multifaceted new Italian restaurant and bar, and it
Frankly, it’s been far too long since we brought you photos of unbelievably delicious-looking hamburgers. And for that, we sincerely apologize. Allow us to make it up to you with this lovely slideshow from Chicago’s first Bareburger—the oft-spoken-of burger operation from New York that’s finally decided to lay roots in our humble Midwestern hamlet. It’s
Land of strange sodas. Chocolaty chicken? Sure. You should bring a date. This uncontrollable urge to pen a haiku brought to you by Entente, a decidedly Zen destination for strange sodas, mezcal on tap and pumpkin tres leches. It’s taking reservations now, it opens next Friday in Lakeview, and this slideshow is nice. Given the stuff above, you may not be
Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name and they’re always glad you came. Other times you want to go where everybody knows your name and they’re always glad to ply you with oxtail donut holes and cocktails seven hours in the making. This slideshow is in the “other times” camp. It’s an annotated, virtual glimpse into the goings-on at
