Features Best New Restaurants, by Dennis Ray Wheaton and Jeff Ruby In a banner year for restaurants, our critics had a tough time narrowing the standouts down to 20-but here’s the list, with our pick for the single best of this year’s class. We also choose the best new dish, highlight the coming-out of a … Read more
Features Best New Restaurants, by Dennis Ray Wheaton and Jeff Ruby Our critics waded through the past year’s rush of restaurant newcomers-some swank, others neighborly-and tabbed 20 of them as the city’s best. Owning a Piece of Jonathan, by Lucinda Hahn When their son was born with a fatal genetic disorder, the Greenbergs urged a … Read more
A new Bucktown pub offers 27 beers in a can; tallying up the Green Tie Ball; grooving on a Monday night at Webster’s Wine Bar.
Bad-boy rocker Tommy Lee in the flesh; the best night at Bacchus; cocktailing at Hotel Sofitel’s Le Bar.
A friend of mine is moving to L.A. in a couple of weeks, so a group of us girls got together last night at Piazza Bella in Roscoe Village to send her off. She picked the restaurant: “This is my new Settimana,” she said on the ride over, referencing the shuttered Wicker Park café. “I still can’t believe that place closed.” Soon, though, she’ll have to find a new, new Settimana.
Hog Wild I went to the preview party for Hogs & Honeys (1555 N. Sheffield Ave.) hosted by Chicago-Scene.com, the Web site for party-hearty voyeurs. Modeled on the New York City biker bar featured in the movie Coyote Ugly, this Weed Street District outpost is the creation of Marc Bortz, mastermind behind Circus, Dragon Room, … Read more
Features Best New Restaurantsby Dennis Ray Wheaton and Anne SpiselmanOur annual roundup of what’s hot and what’s not in the dining world, from the Asian explosion to the check-in of hip hotel dining rooms. We scoured the city and suburbs to produce the definitive list of best places to eat right now. Power Brokerby Steve … Read more
Le Lan and Boka, both good restaurants already, keep the beat alive with talented alums of a hallowed kitchen.
Features Best New Restaurantsby Dennis Ray Wheaton and Anne SpiselmanTwenty exceptional new spots reach for the stars and join the dining hit parade, producing the catchiest numbers to come out of Chicago kitchens in the past year. Plus: Seven for sushi Party Pooperby Steve RhodesAfter two quiet years in office, U.S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald went … Read more
Water Works Blue Water Grill (520 N. Dearborn St.; 312-777-1400) expects to take a step up when its new exec chef, Joel Dennis (Tru), begins on June 25th. A grad of the Culinary Institute of America, Dennis worked as Alain Ducasse’s sous-chef for four years in New York, and he realizes he’s being tapped as … Read more
