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Mercadito Owners to Open Tavernita in River North
By Penny Pollack, Graham Meyer, and Carly Boers
Six Questions for Alfredo Sandoval: Sandoval, Larry Silver, and Felipe and Patricio Sandoval (Alfredo’s brothers) are opening Tavernita (151 W. Erie St.; no phone yet), the fifth restaurant for the partnership, this summer... Read more
Dish Flash: Eight Questions for Homaro Cantu
By Penny Pollack and Graham Meyer
Ing (951 W. Fulton Market; 855-834-6464), the new restaurant from the Moto chef Homaro Cantu, is named both as an acronym for “imagining new gastronomy” and after the verb suffix that signals, appropriately enough, the progressive tense. Read more
Hubbard Inn Opens Thursday in River North
By Penny Pollack, Graham Meyer, and Carly Boers
A Clean, Well-Lighted Place When brainstorming the vibe of Hubbard Inn, an 8,000-square-foot, two-floor European-inspired restaurant opening for dinner Thursday, the proprietors found a lodestar... Read more
Dish Flash: Tribute Coming Soon to the Essex Inn
By Penny Pollack & Graham Meyer
When the chef Paul Wildermuth died unexpectedly on November 13th at the age of 46, he was part of a team working to open a new restaurant in the South Loop called Tribute (Essex Inn, 800 S. Michigan Ave.; no phone yet). ... Read more
Contributors
By Graham Meyer
February 2011: Jan Parr, Geoffrey Johnson, Bryan Smith, Seth Weitberg Read more
A First Look at Bistro One West
By Penny Pollack, Graham Meyer, and Lena Singer
Pollack’s Dinner at Bistro One West in 111 Words Bistro One West (1 W. Illinois St., St. Charles; 630-444-0600) has a comfortable dining room tucked inside a building that’s a tad hard to find in the dark... Read more
Dish Flash: Five Questions for Martial Noguier
By Penny Pollack & Graham Meyer
Although Eve sunsetted over New Year’s weekend, the new restaurant in the space slated for February 1st is Bistronomic (840 N. Wabash Ave.; 312-944-8400), the brainchild of the chef Martial Noguier (One Sixtyblue, Café des Architectes), who is partnering with Matt Fisher—who owned Eve—and John Ward. (The 312 Dining Diva got someone to spill the beans about it.) For a while now, Noguier has wanted to have an inexpensive modern bistro with good, uncomplicated food like what was on Café des Architectes’ neighborhood menu. He talked to us on December 29th about his plans for Bistronomic. Read more