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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 11, 2012
Fall farmers' markets and other food and drink events

The last week of farmer's markets and plenty of fall harvest celebrations make up this week's food and drink events
- by Meg Pier
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Ground Up Chicago, Harvest Feast Chicago, Spence Farm Foundation, Frontera Grill, Hot Chocolate, Perennial Virant, 676 Restaurant & Bar, Scrumptious Pantry, herbs, Merz Apothecary, Meals on Wheels, Chef's Table, The Purple Pig, The Aviary, Dominick's Pizza, Foodielicious, Fischman, Kwak, Oktoberfest, Kwaktoberfest, Moonshine Brewing, Brewer's Brunch, bloody Mary, BIN 36, Harvest Festival, Andersonville, farmer's market

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Blogs, Bleader, Aug 9, 2012
A place to don your tricorn and more in this week's Food & Drink

In this week's Food & Drink: Ye olde South Loop tavern, Key Ingredient huitlacoche
- by Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Kendal Duque, South Loop, City Tavern, Sepia, Chicago Firehouse, Key Ingredient, huitlacoche, Elissa Narow, Perennial Virant, Ray Stanis, Nellcote

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Food & Drink, Key Ingredient, Aug 6, 2012
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Key Ingredient: huitlacoche

Elissa Narow of Perennial Virant goes for the gray with corn smut
- by Julia Thiel
- Tags: Key Ingredient, huitlacoche, Elissa Narow, Jeffrey Sills, Sprout, corn smut, Mexican food, Mexican truffle, cheesecake, Perennial Virant, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 26, 2012
Graham Elliot Bistro: the brand goes on, and more in this week's Food & Drink

In this week's Food & Drink: Graham Elliot Bowles's latest homage to self, Key Ingredient chicken gizzards
- by Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Graham Elliot Bowles, G.E.B., Graham Elliot Bistro, Graham Elliot, Grahamwich, Jacob Saben, Key Ingredient, Jeffrey Sills, chicken gizzards, Sprout, Elissa Narow, Perennial Virant, Vie, huitlacoche

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Food & Drink, Key Ingredient, Jul 23, 2012
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Key Ingredient: chicken gizzards

Sprout's Jeffrey Sills takes a read of the entrails
- by Julia Thiel
- Tags: Key Ingredient, chicken gizzard, Jeffrey Sills, Blair Herridge, Browntrout, innards, sambal, Elissa Narow, Perennial Virant, Vie, Sprout, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 12, 2012
Food Truck Day and other food and drink events

A cooking demonstration, a food and bike tour, restaurant anniversaries, and more
- by Alison Marcotte
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food & Drink, Food Chain, Food Truck Day, Fischman’s Liquor, Jerry's, Green City Market’s BBQ Benefit, Irish Fest, Cooking Channel, Association House of Chicago, Oak Street Beach Food & Drink, El Cid Restaurant, Macy’s Great American Chefs Tour, Chicago Foodways Roundtable, Fork and the Road, Cure-ious Tour, Kitchen Sink Cafe, Perennial Virant, Women on Wine, JW Marriott Chicago, Southport & Irving, Heritage Wine

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Blogs, Bleader, May 16, 2012
In this week's Food & Drink: Balena plays two

In this week's Food & Drink: Chris Pandel and Boka Restaurant Group's Balena, Key Ingredient pu-erh tea
- by Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Balena, Chris Pandel, Nellcote, Jared Van Camp, Boka Restaurant Group, Boka, Perennial Virant, Girl & the Goat, GT Fish & Oyster, Landmark, Amanda Rockman, pu-erh tea, panna cotta, Toni Roberts, the Wit, State and Lake, Roof

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Blogs, Bleader, May 10, 2012
Luxe meets louche at the Stones homage Nellcote

In this week's Food & Drink: Jared Van Camp's Nellcote, Cocktail Challenge stinging nettles
- by Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Nellcote, Jared Van Camp, the Rolling Stones, Exile on Main Street, Randolph Street, Randolph Row, Old Town Social, Johnny Costello Jr., GT Fish & Oyster, stinging nettles, Erin Hayes, Perennial Virant, Mike Page, Vie, the Preservation Kitchen

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Food & Drink, Cocktail Challenge, May 9, 2012
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Cocktail Challenge: stinging nettles

GT Fish & Oyster's Johnny Costello Jr. goes all barista with the foraged perennial
- by Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Cocktail Challenge, Johnny Costello Jr., Perennial Virant, Erin Hayes, foraging, Dave Odd, stinging nettles, GT Fish & Oyster, Slideshow

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Blogs, Bleader, May 8, 2012
Paul Virant signs the Preservation Kitchen cookbook

Tuesday at the Book Cellar, Vie chef Paul Virant signs and discusses his new cookbook, The Preservation Kitchen
- by Julia Thiel
- Tags: Books, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Paul Virant, The Preservation Kitchen, Vie, Perennial Virant, preserves, pickles, Book Cellar, The Preservation Kitchen: The Craft of Making and Cooking with Pickles, Preserves, and Aigre-doux

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Blogs, Bleader, May 3, 2012
This week's food and drink events

A mystery-meat pinata, a pig roast, a Paul Virant book signing, and more
- by Daniel Gerzina
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Nellcote, The Rolling Stones, Paul Kahan, Jose Garces, Common Threads, Dank Haus, Green Festival, Navy Pier, Smoke Daddy, Cinco de Mayo, Ev Darst, Poor Elvis, The Dirty Generals, You Black Kettle, Powell Brew House, Corazon Brew, Auxiliary Art Center, National Salsa Month, Dance Academy of Salsa, Chicago mambo All Stars, Cantina Laredo, Filini, Radisson Blu, Eric Hay, Perennial Virant, Paul Virant, The Preservation Kitchen, The Book Cellar, D.O.C. Wine Bar, Molly's Cupcakes.

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Food & Drink, Cocktail Challenge, Apr 25, 2012
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Cocktail Challenge: fish sauce

Erin Hayes makes a savory cocktail to match the potent Asian condiment
- by Asher Klein
- Tags: Cocktail Challenge, Erin Hayes, Danny Shapiro, fish sauce, tom yum curry, coconuts, Perennial Virant, Slideshow

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 29, 2011
133 tasty things from 2011

I ate it all
- by Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Tamales Garibay, the Florentine, H Mart, Prince Creperie Cafe, the Sodfather, Chez Violette, MingHin Cuisine, Butcher & Larder, Leopold, La Taberna Tapas, Ruby's, Bistronomic, Paris Club, Leader Bar, Frontier, Ing, Lure Izakaya Pub, Birrieria Zaragoza, Cafe des Architectes, GT Fish & Oyster, Next Restaurant, Paris 1906, Tour of Thailand, Childhood, Underground Meats, Nostrano, Aviary, the Molecular Collective, Paul McGee, the Whistler, Goose Island Madame Rose, La Chaparrita, the Bedford, Pleasant House Bakery, Golden Pacific Market, Aroy Thai, Harvesttime Foods, Scottish Festival and Highland Games, Rancho Mateo, Humboldt Park Puerto Rican Fest, Lemonhart 151, Mike Ryan, Sable, Union Sushi & Barbeque Bar, Rustic House, Black Sheep, NoMi Kitchen, Autre Monde, Wisconsin State Fair, Telegraph Wine Bar, Al Dente, Roots Handmade Pizza, Masa Azul, Lao Hunan, Michael Jordan's Steak House, the Pump Room, Tozi Korean BBQ, Cai Fine Dining and Banquet, Maude's Liquor Bar, Phoenix tofu, Three Aces, Harvard Sportsmen's Club, Wat Dhammaram Songkran, 2007 Black Slate Porrera, Vera, Almawal, El Ideas, Snack Planet, JoongBoo Market, Nha Hang Viet Nam, Nathan Sears, Baconfest, Mick Klug Farm, Ripasso, jicama stick, Victor Mejia, Tortas Frontera, Matty Eggleston, Perennial Virant, Barrelhouse Flat, Ben Schiller, Jason Turley, Bar DeVille

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 29, 2011
This week in Food & Drink: Best restaurants 2011

Our critics' eight favorite restaurants from 2011, along with ten honorable mentions
- by Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Mike Sula, Next, Phillip Foss, Andrew Brochu, El Ideas, Boka Restaurant Group, GT Fish & Oyster, Giuseppe Tentori, Perennial Virant, Paul Virant, Brendan Sodikoff, Maude's Liquor Bar, Vera, Mark Mendez, Elizabeth Mendez, Tony Hu, Lao Hunan, Art Jackson, Pleasant House Bakery, Al Dente, La Taberna Tapas, Snack Planet, Telegraph Wine Bar, Key Ingredient, John Anderes, Jason Hammel, Lula Cafe, ash, Erling-Wu Bower, the Publican, gold leaf, the Burger Point, Burger & the Butcher, Cai Fine Dining & Banqjet, Del Toro

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Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature, Dec 29, 2011
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Our favorite restaurants of 2011

From three iterations of Next to the humble pies of Bridgeport
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, 2011 in review, El Ideas, GT Fish & Oyster, Lao Hunan, Maude's Liquor Bar, Next Restaurant, Perennial Virant, Pleasant House Bakery, Vera, Next, Vera Chicago, Slideshow

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 9, 2011
Ready, set, roll your eyes: It's Michelin Guide time

Le sigh: French tire maker Michelin dropped its 2011 Bib Gourmand list this morning.
- by Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Michelin Guide Chicago 2011, Ann Sather, Arami, Avec, Belly Shack, Bistronomic, the Bristol, Browntrout, Ceresâ€™ Table, Cumin, De Cero, Deca, DeColores, Fogon, Frontera Grill, Gemini Bistro, Gilt Bar, Girl & the Goat, Green Zebra, GT Fish & Oyster, Han 202, Hopleaf, Jaipur, Jin Thai, Kabul House, La Creperie, La Petite Folie, Lao Sze Chuan, Los Nopales, Lula Cafe, M. Henry, Maudeâ€™s Liquor Bar, Mexique, Mixteco Grill, Mundial Cocina Mestiza, Nana, Nightwood, Opart Thai House, Owen & Engine, Paramount Room, Perennial Virant, the Publican, the Purple Pig, Raj Darbar, Riccardo Trattoria, Sen, Smak-Tak, Smoque BBQ, Sol de Mexico, Spacca Napoli, Taste of Peru, Thai Village, Twin Anchors, Urban Belly, West Town Tavern, Xni-Pec, Yolo

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Blogs, Bleader, Oct 6, 2011
In this week's restaurant listings: recommended in Lincoln Park

In this week's restaurant listings: affordable recommended restaurants in Lincoln Park.
- by Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Food, Lincoln Park, Alinea, Charlie Trotter's, Boka, Perennial Virant, Big Stuff, Caminito Argentinian Grill, the Counter, Floriole Cafe & Bakery, Red Flame

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Food & Drink, Cocktail Challenge, Jul 28, 2011
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Cocktail Challenge: wasabi

Perennial Virant's Matty Eggleston puts the fresh stuff on ice
- by Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Cocktail Challenge, Matty Eggleston, Perennial Virant, fresh wasabi, cocktails, Stephen Cole, The Violet hour, cream of tartar, Slideshow

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Blogs, Bleader, Jul 15, 2011
Food & Drink in this week's Reader: an off-the-grid brewery in the making, beer guides, Rustic House, Cocktail Challenge, and more

Food & Drink in this week's Reader: an off-the-grid brewery in the making, beer guides, Rustic House, Cocktail Challenge, and more
- by Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Environment, Food, Eco, New Chicago Brewing Company, the Plant, Jesse Edwin Evans, Samuel Evans, John Edel, Back of the Yards, Bubbly Dynamics, beer nerds, John Laffler, Goose Island Brewing Company, Jim Magas, Jess Straka (dba Anhalt), new Chicago breweries, brewery tours, weird beers, rare beers, Rustic House, Michael Carlson, Schwa, Key Ingredient, Cocktail Challenge, Daniel de Oliveira, GT Fish & Oyster, Perennial Virant, Matty Eggleston, Logan Square Kitchen, Half Acre Beer Company, Gaztro-Wagon, beer dinner, 4 Wheel Kitchen, food trucks, Asado Coffee, Square Donutz, pop-up restaurant, T's Bar, new Chicago restaurants, Etno Village Grill, Northdown Cafe and Taproom, Tolotzin Mexican Restaurant

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Food & Drink, Restaurant Reviews, Jun 30, 2011
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Perennial Virant's rustic farm-to-table minimalism

Creative, clean flavors—at a cost
- by Martha Bayne
- Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Perennial Virant, Paul Virant, Vie, Boka Restaurant Group, Matty Eggleson, Kady Yon, Girl & the Goat, GT Fish & Oyster, Recommended

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