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Just because the Bears didn’t make the playoffs this year (again, and in spectacularly Bear-like fashion) doesn’t mean you won’t be tuning in for next week’s games and the Super Bowl. No. It just means you may require a greater incentive to do so. Enter: 10 of the most splendid chicken wing creations in the city, from Korean to Chinese to good old
XO Marshmallow is a name that might sound familiar. If it doesn’t, perhaps it should. It’s from a duo of marshmallow people (who are apparently actual types of people) who struck Kickstarter gold once upon a time and are now turning that success into the world’s first marshmallow café. It’s aptly named XO Marshmallow Café and it opens Tuesday, but you can
Toast and whiskey. The two make a strange pair. Interesting, sure. Unexpectedly delicious, even. But definitely, certifiably strange. Allow us to elaborate by introducing Slightly Toasted, a cozy café, bar, pop-up restaurant and generally hospitable place for eating fancy toast and drinking fine whiskey, opening Monday in the West Loop. See what we’re
Thank you for tuning into the live reading of A Tale of Two New Casual Restaurants, which is a tale of two new casual restaurants, Vidalia and Pizzeria Bebu, now open in Ravenswood and Lincoln Park, respectively. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of whatever the opposite of wisdom is, it was the Friday before the Super
Picture your typical Mexican restaurant. Tacos and margaritas between terracotta walls, right? Now, tear up that picture. Maybe not the part with the tacos, though. The margaritas can probably stay, too. Those are great. Otherwise... tear up that picture. And feel free to put the rainbow-tiled kitchen and painted agave plants of Mi Tocaya Antojeria in
Most doctors say you should drink no more than four cups of coffee a day. No doctors say that you can’t drink them all at once. At least that’s what we’re going with for today... Step right up to Fairgrounds Craft Coffee and Tea, a fancy new Bucktown coffee shop where matcha is poured over strawberry ice cream, sage kombucha is on tap and coffee comes in
Sometimes, you just need a cup of coffee. Other times, you need the Grateful Dead’s American Beauty album on vinyl. Then, there are those very specific times when you need both. Enter: Purple Llama, now open and satisfying both your caffeine and music needs in one Wicker Park coffee/record shop. Here’s the slideshow. You’ll notice the whole purple thing
If you walk into Potter’s today, you’ll notice it looks a lot like it did the last time you walked in. Dim lighting, leather chairs, backlit photos of old Chicago. But it smells a little different. Like, this-place-is-almost-100%-burgers-now different. That’s because Potter’s has just transformed into Potter’s Chicago Burger Bar. And with that
Change is good. Change keeps you on your toes. Change gives you vodka on tap and fat steaks slathered in bone marrow butter. At least in the case of Gemini, it does. Yes, after closing in January, Lincoln Park’s beloved Gemini Bistro reopens Wednesday with a shorter name and a few other notable changes that we’ll get into right after you look at this
Fine, we’ll just say it... Here’s a place that’ll let you order as much sushi as you can possibly handle for one set price. The catch: you have to eat everything you order, including the rice, or you’re paying for the leftovers. So that’s new. Also, challenge accepted. At Sushi Taku, a new BYOB-for-now sushi spot in (where else) Wicker Park that’s now
