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
Elliot owns the restaurants Graham Elliot, Grahamwich, and the upcoming G.E.B., as well as appearing on the show MasterChef. Elliot recently named Andrew Brochu the chef at Graham Elliot... Read more
“Manor has been gutted. People who have been inside of there won’t even recognize it,” says Chris Curren, the chef of Stout Barrel House & Galley (642 N. Clark St.; no phone yet), a restaurant scheduled to open in April in the former nightclub space, from LGN Group, known for boîtes such as Manor, Stay, and RiNo... Read more
