Two Market, Two MarketMatthew Van Valkenburgh and Yamandu Perez, the owners of Zak’s Place in Hinsdale, are coming to the city for their next venture, Two, scheduled to open in midsummer... Read more
(Rib-)Eyeing a Steak House Void Wilmette Chop House opened yesterday after a quick turnaround in the space that housed the short-lived Bluette...Read more
The Stuff Dreams, and Branzino, Are Made OfTodd Stein has upscale-Italian credentials to spare. Further polishing the proverbial boot, his next step will be to run the kitchen at Piccolo Sogno Due...Read more
Bottle Rocket
The owners of Dunlay’s, D.O.C. Wine Bar, The Smoke Daddy, and Frasca are gutting the space vacated by Leo's Coney Island, and adding a bar, woodwork, and street-front windows to create Crosby’s Kitchen which they aim to open mid-June... Read more
Special Relativity
“The first time we ever spoke, I said I was an anti-chain person,” Alexander Brunacci told us. True to form, Brunacci’s second restaurant, instead of becoming a sister to Franks ’n’ Dawgs, will be more of a cousin... Read more
Gin UpScofflaw is a gin-leaning cocktail bar owned by four partners—Andy Gould, Mandy Tandy, Kris Nagy, and Danny Shapiro —and scheduled to open March 12, with food from Mickey Neely. Like any good bar employees, Shapiro and Neely proved to be good conversationalists... Read more
