Food & Drink
Thursday, February 9, 2012
Crickets, Music, Food & Drink The venue formerly known as Pancho's
Posted by Luca Cimarusti on Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 12:59 PM
MP Shows began booking bands at Pancho's, a mostly Cuban restaurant at 2200 N. California, in October 2010, after shows at Ronny's were suddenly shut down. A couple of months ago, MP honcho Brian Peterson and former Treat owner Tamiz Ciccone bought the place, and have since overhauled the menu, beer list, and aesthetic.
Food Chain, Food & Drink This week's food and drink events
Posted by Daniel Gerzina on Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:30 AM
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At Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar tonight artist and wine buff Thomas Arvid is unveiling three new paintings to go along with a wine dinner featuring California whites and reds and dishes like ahi tuna skewers and petite fillet au poivre. Reservations required. 6:30 PM, Fleming's Prime Steakhouse & Wine Bar, 25 E. Ohio, 312-329-9463, $150 per person.
More events after the jump.
Food Chain, Food & Drink This week in Food & Drink
Posted by Kate Schmidt on Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 10:03 AM
- Jen Moran
- Deer Isle shrimp, cauliflower, cuttlefish noodles, chorizo, marcona almonds, and spoon bread
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Paranormal, Food Chain, Food & Drink The Asparamancer
Posted by Mike Sula on Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 5:07 PM
This was shot last month. Take it with a grain of salt. Everybody knows you don't consult an oracle that uses out of season produce. Video after the jump.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Food Chain, Food & Drink Jerked: Heron Valley Jerk Chicken
Posted by Mike Sula on Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 4:11 PM
- Mike Sula
- Heron Valley's whole jerk chicken
Jerk shacks come and go on the south side, but Heron Valley's been infusing allspice and chile-rubbed chicken, catfish, and shrimp with a righteous smoke for about four years on a stretch of 103rd Street temptingly close to Old Fashioned Donuts. Inside, a bulletproof barrier protects a chuffing barrel smoker that produces a tender, juicy bird, hacked and heaped in clamshell with a couple slices of dense hard-dough bread to mop the tangy jerk sauce—for a mere $10.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Food Chain, Food & Drink One Bite: Burmese pickled tea salad
Posted by Mike Sula on Fri, Feb 3, 2012 at 1:24 PM
- Mike Sula
- Junta-backed pickled tea salad
Until now.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Food Chain, Food & Drink This week's food and drink events
Posted by Daniel Gerzina on Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 12:48 PM
Yes, it’s Groundhog Day, and Jerry's Wicker Park is celebrating by offering wild boar sloppy joes with fig vinegar barbecue sauce and screening Bill Murray’s classic Groundhog Day all day and night. The sandwich will stay on the menu for the following week, but Groundhog Day apparently ends for the movie. 10 AM-2 AM, Jerry’s Wicker Park, 1938 W. Division, 773-235-1006, free.
More events after the jump.
Food Chain, Food & Drink This week in Food & Drink
Posted by Kate Schmidt on Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 10:30 AM
- Jeffrey Marini
- Quail with spiced beluga lentils at Goosefoot
Mike Sula reviews Goosefoot, the new BYO fine-dining spot from Les Nomades vet Chris Nugent, where he's currently offering an eight-course tasting menu for $90, with a 12-course option in the works. It's all delicious, he says, from "stomach-priming" first courses like chestnut soup topped with truffle foam to quail on a bed of curried lentils he "could eat a whole bowl of." But ultimately he finds it "too fastidious for its own good," and urges Nugent to let his hair down a la Schwa's Michael Carlson or Phillip Foss of El Ideas, whose similarly ambitious and technically brilliant menus are leavened by informality, music, and free-flowing booze.
In the listings are more restaurants in Lincoln Square, among them Sula's much-beloved Nhu Lan Bakery and Jimmy's Pizza Cafe, where you can follow up your New York-style slice with beignets.
Wednesday, February 1, 2012
Food Chain, Film, Food & Drink Gene and Georgetti: the movie
Posted by Tony Adler on Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:18 PM
There were antipasti and moviehouse candies available before the showing, slider-size sandwiches after (provided—rather sweetly, I thought—by friendly competitor Phil Stefani, who appears in the movie talking about how much he learned from G&G). At the buffet station, a guy carved slices of prosciutto that dropped onto a platter alongside crumbles of good aged cheese. When they weren't offering boxes of pop corn and bags of Swedish Fish or Twizzlers, servers brought drinks from the open bar.
Food Chain, Food & Drink "Only an asshole doesn't like Brussels sprouts"
Posted by Mike Sula on Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 1:47 PM
- Elizabeth Gomez
- black cod with sprouts and tempura clams, Acadia
