Food & Drink
Friday, May 25, 2012
Food Chain Food & Drink Chicago Craft Beer Week and more in this week's food and drink events
Posted by Alison Marcotte on 05.25.12 at 04:09 PM
- Matt D
- The Hungry Brain
The third annual Chicago Craft Beer Week began May 17 and ends May 27. Celebrate the tail end in the cozy, hip Hungry Brain, which boasts both a good selection of well-priced craft beers and, tonight, the live talk show You, Me, Them, Everybody. Brandon Wetherbee and Esmeralda Leon host, with guests Red Hot Annie, Stephanie Hasz, and Desert Soap. 7-9 PM, Hungry Brain, 2319 W. Belmont, 773-709-1401, donations accepted.
Maison, a new restaurant from Custom House's Sue Kim-Drohomyrecky and Peter Drohomyrecky, opens tonight. The French-tinged menu comprises seafood, snacks like gougeres and house-marinated olives, charcuterie plates, and a generous list of entrees; the executive chef is Perry Hendrix. 333 E. Benton Pl., 312-241-1540.
Food Chain Food & Drink Eat spaghetti with your hands at Den Den
Posted by Mike Sula on 05.25.12 at 01:49 PM
- Mike Sula
- Den Den spread
Little less spicy, not particularly greasy is the MO at Edgewater's Den Den, the city's only Eritrean restaurant, which replaced Las Islas Marias late last year. That's not to say it isn't worth checking out: at the very least it provides a socially acceptable opportunity to eat spaghetti with your hands.
Food Chain Food & Drink Crib's Albert D'Angelo surfaces in Brooklyn and other food & drink news bites
Posted by Mike Sula on 05.25.12 at 07:18 AM
- Mike Sula
- You still haven't eaten here yet?
More food shockers . . .
Thursday, May 24, 2012
Food Chain Food & Drink One Bite: fuzzy green almonds
Posted by Mike Sula on 05.24.12 at 01:04 PM
- Mike Sula
- Fresh almonds
Food Chain Food & Drink From farm to fuss: Storefront Company
Posted by Kate Schmidt on 05.24.12 at 09:39 AM
- Andrea Bauer
- Cured salmon and fennel jam on brioche circles—this is "farm cuisine"?
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Piety Midwestern Defensiveness Vacation Week Food Chain Food & Drink By the pie: good stuff in central Indiana
Posted by Sam Worley on 05.23.12 at 07:17 AM
- Gabriel Amadeus
Amtrak is an unrelenting mess. And the Utah pie incident—I only made it through one bite—was like every other similar experience I'd had until then: gloppy filling, crust out of a box. I’d never had good roadside pie.
Until now.
Monday, May 21, 2012
Food Chain Food & Drink Troquet vs. Brasserie by LM
Posted by Mike Sula on 05.21.12 at 04:09 PM
- Mike Sula
- Le declivite Francaise, Troquet
That hasn't stopped chef Bradford Phillips of Troquet—the newish "neighborhood French bar" from the folks who brought you LM—from putting one on the menu. As it goes, that's about the only non-Frenchy thing to eat at this Ravenswood corner bar, the home of Wolcott's until owners Stephan and Nicole Outrequin Quaisser took it over in March. That wasn't long before they reopened the restaurant in the Essex Hotel (the ill-fated, erstwhile Tribute) after luring Phillips away from the Pump Room to command both. In scope and ambition, both menus are way scaled back from anything he was doing there, or, for that matter, anything he did at LM when he was the Outrequin Quaissers' opening chef.
Friday, May 18, 2012
Food Chain Food & Drink One Bite: makdous at Al Bawadi Grill
Posted by Mike Sula on 05.18.12 at 03:52 PM
- Mike Sula
- makdous at Al Bawadi Grill
Bridgeview's Jordanian-Palestinian Al Bawadi Grill is widely, and rightly, praised for its hardwood lump charcoal-grilled meats, sometimes at the expense of other worthy things on its big menu, namely the makdous, stuffed oil-cured baby eggplants. Traditionally these are put up in the fall pickling season, known as mouneh in Lebanon, and eaten months later. At Al Bawadi they're stuffed with crushed walnuts, red pepper, and garlic and served sectioned on the plate, tangy, spicy, and quite meaty themselves, and an ideal pickly counterpoint to the kebabs.
Food Chain Food & Drink The bitter end of Logan Square Kitchen and other food news bites
Posted by Mike Sula on 05.18.12 at 11:33 AM
- LSK Facebook
- Logan Square Kitchen
Zina Murray announced Logan Square Kitchen's impending demise with an angry rant against the city's "department of dream killers," and then another, giving no hint of her plans just four days earlier.
More food news bites, good and bad:
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Food Chain Food & Drink One Bite: breadfruit
Posted by Mike Sula on 05.17.12 at 04:06 PM
- Mike Sula
- Breadfruit
But the guy couldn't catch a break. Upon delivery they were rejected by Jamaican slaves. One taste and you can see why. There's no more aggressively boring fruit than this. Once cooked it has a texture and flavor somewhere between boiled potato and dense white bread.
