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Summer Eating List
Summer is the sweet season for restaurants. Fresh produce is abundant, daylight lasts longer and restaurants are busier and bigger (with the addition of outdoor seats) than at any other time of the year. So once again I'm trotting out my Summer Eating...
Tags: Breads, Chinese Restaurants, Bars and Clubs, Dining and Drinking, Restaurants
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Father's Day dining options
Time to show dear old dad some of the love you showed mom last month (you did remember mom last month, right?). Here are more than two dozen Father's Day dining options, including one event taking place the night before Father's Day, and one that will...
Tags: Father's Day, Salads, Bars and Clubs, French Toast, Dining and Drinking
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Taste of Chicago reveals lineup for Celebrity Chef du Jour
RedEyeThe Taste of Chicago is bringing back its Celebrity Chef du Jour series with a fresh line-up of big-name local chefs. Featured chefs for the fine-dining experience include Rick Bayless, Carrie Nahabedian, Giuseppe Tentori, Gale Gand, The Hearty Boys and...Tags: Top Chef Masters (tv program), Naha, Frontera Grill, Jill Scott, Celebrities
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Giuliana Rancic talks about RPM Steak
RedEyeGiuliana and Bill Rancic made a move into the Chicago dining scene last year by pairing up with the Melman siblings (Hub 51, Paris Club) and chef Doug Psaltis to open RPM Italian. This fall or winter, the team plans to open another restaurant, RPM Steak,...Tags: Foods and Beverages, RPM Italian, Lifestyle and Leisure, Dining and Drinking, Restaurants
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The Berkshire Room to open at Acme Hotel
APRIL 29 UPDATE: Benjamin Schiller is leaving Boka Restaurant Group to become beverage director for The Fifty/50 Group, taking responsibility for the cocktail menus at seasonal rooftop venue Homestead (reopening in late May, pictured) and in-the-works...
Tags: West Town, Wicker Park, Bars and Clubs, Lifestyle and Leisure, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Pastry chef Amanda Rockman leaving Balena, The Bristol
Tribune criticAmanda Rockman, whose pastry wizardry at Balena (1633 N. Halsted St., 312-867-3888) and The Bristol (2152 N. Damen Ave., 773-862-5555) earned her a Chicago Tribune Dining Award earlier this year, will leave her two-restaurant gig in two weeks. Rockman's...Tags: Chicago Tribune, The Bristol, Chicago Restaurants
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Valentine's Day dining options abound
Valentine's Day is one week away, and as some of you have already discovered, restaurant reservations are going fast. That's the bad news. The good news is that Valentine's Day is one of the biggest days of the year for reservation no-shows. So if the...
Tags: Holidays, Dining and Drinking, Casablanca (movie), Restaurants, Libertad
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Reservations please
Here's something you may not know about Open Table, the predominant online restaurant reservations system: When you book a table through the Open Table website, the restaurant is charged $1 per seated guest — so if you show up as a foursome, that'...
Tags: Restaurant and Catering Industry, Computing and Information Technology Industry, Dining and Drinking, Computer Hardware, New Products
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Next's tickets system expands
Alinea, Chicago's most acclaimed restaurant, has used Open Table in the past to manage — though not take — reservations, but co-owner Nick Kokonas isn't shy about anticipating and working toward the service's demise. Kokonas, partners with...
Tags: Grant Achatz, The Rolling Stones (music group), Avec, Marketing, Dining and Drinking
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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: Graham Elliot, Frontera Grill, Avenues, Dale Levitski, Topolobampo
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Our Laguna: Classic car show impresses again
Some vehicles are in a class of their own. Laguna Beach Rotary Club's ninth annual Classic Car Show on Sunday at the Festival of Arts Grounds and the Village Entrance parking lot featured 188 classics in 30 classes — ranging from antiques to hot...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Ford, Bentley, Justice System, Automotive Equipment
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Charlie Trotter gets ready to hang it up
Charlie Trotter says he first thought of closing his namesake restaurant after his plane sat on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. “I realized really how fragile the world is,” he reflects. “I love what...
Tags: Graham Elliot, Restaurant and Catering Industry, Belly Shack, Entertainment Events, Avenues
Jun 13, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Jun 13, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
May 14, 2013
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Apr 10, 2013
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Mar 20, 2013
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Feb 11, 2013
|Story| Chicago Tribune
Feb 7, 2013
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Nov 15, 2012
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Nov 15, 2012
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Nov 8, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
Oct 11, 2012
|Story| Coastline Pilot
Aug 30, 2012
|Column| Chicago Tribune
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