Grant Achatz Delivers Candid Memoir in 'Life, on the Line'
TRUE GRIT: The star chef’s compulsively readable new book includes vivid moments and unsentimental writing.
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Foodie Kids—a.k.a. 'Koodies'—Infiltrate Dining Scene
NO KIDDING: The brat pack wants organic PB&J with a side of foie gras
Dish Flash: Five Questions for Stephanie Izard
The Girl & the Goat chef is planning on opening an old-school diner called The Little Goat, a super-casual restaurant inspired by Mel’s Diner of TV fame and the diners she went to as a kid.
Weekend Photos: Chicago Poetry Brothel at the House of Blues
Think Dungeons and Dragons, except way sexier: If performing a poem for a live audience is scary, then doing so as a scantily clad Vaudevillian—essentially, role-playing a Victorian-era character while baring one’s soul—makes it less so…
Drinking Among Co-eds: The Chaser Strolls Down Memory Lane at McGee’s
One of my favorite ways to spend a night out is to begin with something glamorous—the kind of party where your eye shadow glimmers in the soft light of the chandeliers and you fill up on endless Champagne top-offs while exclaiming that the flower arrangements are really altogether spectacular—then switch gears, ditching the heels for flats and wrapping up with something at the opposite end of the spectrum…
Review: L2O
L2O 2.0: Chicago’s most fascinating restaurant at a curious crossroads
Northdown Café and Taproom to Open in Lake View
Lucks Out in Lake View
It all started 11 years ago, when Adam Lucks and his sister Valeri were walking past Jinx Café on Division Street and saw that it was for sale…
Can you spell ‘Whistler’? The Logan Square Bar Hosts Its First Bee Tonight
Nerds of Chicago, unite! Logan Square’s hipster haven The Whistler—known for its craft cocktails, offbeat live music, poetry readings, art installations, and more—adds its first ever spelling bee to the mix tonight at 8 p.m…
The Hot List: 10 places everyone's talking about and dining at in March (in order of heat)
Chicago’s most-buzzed-about restaurants this month
Nightlife Photos: Table Hockey Tournament @ Lottie’s Pub
The Hawks were away, but Chicagoans still played—table hockey, that is—Thursday night at Lottie’s Pub, in Bucktown…