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The Hot Summer Dining Trend Is Brunch
By Penny Pollack, Graham Meyer, and Carly Boers
Brunch Is the New Black
We’ve come a long way since Jeff Ruby, Chicago magazine’s chief dining critic, described brunch this way in 2007... Read more
III Forks Steakhouse to Open in River East
By Penny Pollack, Graham Meyer, and Carly Boers
Forks in the Road Ahead
Since last November, when the first hints arose about III Forks opening a location in River East, details have been scarce. Now, the silence has been broken... Read more
Dish Flash: Twelve Questions for Frank Brunacci
By Penny Pollack and Graham Meyer
Yesterday a press release announced that Frank Brunacci had left Sixteen, the high-end restaurant in the Trump Tower, but the release coyly left his destination unstated. Brunacci gave us the story. Read more
Southern Fare Crops up on the North Shore
By Penny Pollack, Graham Meyer, and Carly Boers
Southern Exposure
From the town of Whitesburg in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky and with an accent to match, Missy Crovetti brings a Southern influence to her new American restaurant, M... Read more
The Chef at Michael Jordan’s Steak House Will Be James O’Donnell
By Penny Pollack, Graham Meyer, and Carly Boers
Bull Market
A few months ago, the news broke that Michael Jordan was unretiring his name on the Chicago restaurant scene—the new Michael Jordan’s Steak House (InterContinental Chicago Magnificent Mile, 505 N. Michigan Ave.; 312-321-8823) is scheduled to open in mid-August in the Zest space... Read more
The File on Citadel’s Ken Griffin
By Graham Meyer
He's the billionaire founder of the Chicago-based hedge fund Citadel. He's also a philanthropist, a political player, a benefactor of the arts—and a person with a penchant for privacy. So who exactly is Kenneth Cordele Griffin? We scoured public documents, financial records, and other sources to come up with the answer Read more