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Best of Chicago, Food & Drink, Jun 20, 2012
Readers' Poll
Best Chef

Grant Achatz (Alinea, Next, the Aviary)
- Tags: Food & Drink, Grant Achatz, Alinea, Next, the Aviary, Rick Bayless, Frontera Grill, Topolobampo, Xoco, Readers' Poll

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 26, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Friday 2/26

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.
- by Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Lit & Lectures, Film, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Food, Books, North Face, Music Box, Mixteco Grill, Cuna, Questionable Scarf Party, Windy City Story Slam, Double Door, Birchwood Kitchen, Abby Sher, Fiorentino's Cucina Italiana, Silver Spoon, Akram Khan Company, Museum of Contemporary Art, MCA, Xoco, Gene Siskel Film Center, The Wedding Song

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 5, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Friday 2/5

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- by Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Food, Explode Into Colors, Subterranean, Birchwood Kitchen, Dana Hall, Green Mill, Seth Troxler, Smart Bar, Arco de Cuchileros, Le's Pho, Beeswax, Gene Siskel Film Center, Xoco, The Hurt Locker, La Bombonera, The Brother/Sister Plays, Steppenwolf, Old Town Social, Little Boy Needs Ride and Notes to Molly, Prop Thtr, Kuma's Corner

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 19, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Friday 3/19

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- by Whet Moser
- Tags: Style, Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Visual Art, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Food, The Aldermen Project: 50 Alderman/50 Artists, Jeremy Scheuch, Lauri Apple, Derek Erdman, Phineas X. Jones, Jon Gitelson, Aaron Wooten, Johalla Project, Big Star, Paul Kahan, Scout Niblett, Schubas, Palette Bistro, Larry McCray, Buddy Guy's Legends, Cafecito, Dogtooth, Gene Siskel Film Center, European Union Film Festival, Bijan's Bistro, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Aja, Uncle Vanya, Xoco, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Urban Style Emporium, Loreta Corsetti Millinery Atelier, Silver Spoon, HSDC, Nederlands Dans Theater

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Blogs, Bleader, Feb 20, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Saturday 2/20

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- by Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Food, Chicago Underground Duo, Hideout, Lokal, Parade, Jacques Tati, Gene Siskel Film Center, Xoco, Facets, Day of the Dead, Kith & Kin, Agami, Leo's Coney Island, Jump Rhythm Jazz Project, Eleven City Diner, The Cabinet, Redmoon Theater, Habana Libre

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Blogs, Bleader, May 8, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Saturday 5/8

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- by Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Food, Canasta, Schubas, Josephine Foster, Hideout, Jane's, Vandermark 5, Velvet Lounge, Double Li, The Good the Bad the Weird, Music Box, Cafe Orchid, The Absolute Best Friggin' Time of Your Life, Second City E.T.C., Piper's Alley, Adobo Grill, Avenue Q, Bank of America Theatre, Xoco, Banners & Cranks Festival of Cantastoria, Cesar's Tacos

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 31, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Sunday 1/31

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- by Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Food, Michael Attias, Magda Mayas, Fred Lonberg-Holm, Frank Rosaly, Dana Jessen, Hungry Brain, El Tinajon, No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson, Steve James, Gene Siskel Film Center, Xoco, The Fantastic Mr. Fox, Chilam Balam, the Vic, Rhinoceros Theater Festival, RhinoFest, Prop Thtr, Kuma's Corner

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 29, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Thursday 4/29

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- by Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Lit & Lectures, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Food, Books, Jason Collett, Schubas, Que Rico, Jeremy Pelt Quintet, Chicago Curry House, Jazz Showcase, Skeletonwitch, House of Blues, Xoco, The Man Who Saved New Orleans, ETA Creative Arts Foundation, Stomp, Bank of America Theatre, Atwood Cafe, Cathleen Falsani, The Thread: Finding a Sacred Place in Cyberspace, Manya Brachear, Saint James Cathedral, St. James Cathedral, Everything Strange and New, Facets Cinematheque, Facets, Indian Grill

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Blogs, Bleader, Apr 6, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Tuesday 4/6

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- by Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Orquestra Contemporanea de Olinda, Rumba, Xoco, Love Is All, Empty Bottle, Andrzej Grill, Joyland vs. CellStories, Joyland, CellStories, Quimby's, Lokal, No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson, Landmark's Century Centre, Erwin

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Blogs, Bleader, Jan 26, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Tuesday, 1/26

Recommended events paired with nearby restaurants.
- by Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Food, Behemoth, House of Blues, Xoco, best chicago restaurants, A Face in the Crowd, Gene Siskel Film Center, Crofton on Wells, The White Ribbon, Landmark's Century Centre, New Tokyo, Dreamgirls, Cadillac Palace Theatre, Cibo Matto, Cook County Social Club, iO, Vines

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 24, 2010
Dinner & a Show: Wednesday 3/24

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- by Whet Moser
- Tags: Chicagoland, Food Chain, Film, Music, Food & Drink, Performing Arts, Arts, Food, Golden Triangle, Beat Kitchen, Terragusto, Eighth Blackbird, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, The Gage, Shigeyama family, kyogen, International House, University of Chicago, Maravillas, Helsinki Forever, Gene Siskel Film Center, European Union Film Festival, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Xoco

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Food & Drink, Restaurant Reviews, Nov 5, 2009
New Too

Eleven more recent openings
- by David Hammond, Julia Thiel, Mike Sula, and Martha Bayne
- Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Blue Ocean, Ch'ava Cafe, Ciao Amore Ristorante, Dolce, Folklore, Tango Sur, Havana, Knew, Think Cafe, Omar Rodriguez, La Mediterranee, Mercadito Chicago, Rustico Grill, Xoco, Rick Bayless

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 25, 2013
Image Video
Pipeworks experiments on its imperial stout with Raspberry Truffle Abduction

Pipeworks Brewing combines alien abduction and raspberry truffles: two great tastes that . . . oh, never mind.
- by Philip Montoro
- Tags: Beer and Metal, Music, Food & Drink, Beer and Metal, beer, metal, Pipeworks, Pipeworks Brewing, Abduction, stout, Raspberry Truffle Abduction Imperial Stout, raspberries, cacao, Gerrit Lewis, Beejay Oslon, Binny's, Adam Vavrick, Cruciamentum, Xoco, Image, Video

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Blogs, Bleader, Dec 15, 2009
Rick Bayless's Frontera Raided ~~by USDA~~; Bruce Sherman's North Pond Is Next

Someone raided Frontera today and plans to visit North Pond—all because of a mention in our story about underground sausage makers, whom those chefs do not patronize.
- by Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Media, Politics, Food & Drink, News, Food, Clout City, North Pond, Frontera Grill, Topolobampo, Xoco, Rick Bayless, Bruce Sherman, E & P Meats, USDA, blogsherpa, bullshit

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News & Features, Feature, Nov 12, 2009
The Food Issue: The Best New Restaurants of 2009

From Browntrout to Zebda
- by Mike Sula, Anne Spiselman, Martha Bayne, and David Hammond
- Tags: Feature, Browntrout, Chilam Balam, Cibo Matto, Han 202, Nightwood, Taxim, Xoco, Zebda, Abuelo's Mexican Grill, Birchwood Kitchen, Ciao Amore Ristorante, Elate, Fianco, Jam, Los Moles, Rootstock Wine & Beer Bar, Shokran

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Blogs, Bleader, Mar 1, 2012
This week in Food & Drink

In this week's Food & Drink: Tavernita, Cocktail Challenge Kraft cheese powder packet, River North Mexican
- by Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Tavernita, Ryan Poli, Patricio Sandoval, Alfredo Sandoval, Barcita, Steve Carrow, Naha, Kraft macaroni and cheese, Derek Alexander, Longman & Eagle, baby formula, Cantina Laredo, Dos Diablos, Rick Bayles, Topolobampo, Frontera Grill, Xoco, Tortas Frontera

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Blogs, Bleader, Nov 18, 2009
Top Chef

The Daily Beast picks the best restaurants to have opened since Labor Day, and Mike Sula's pick is no big surprise.
- by Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Media, Food & Drink, Food, Rick Bayless, Xoco, Daily Beast, Tina Brown, Best New Restaraunts

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Grant Achatz (Alinea, Next, the Aviary)

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Eleven more recent openings

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Pipeworks Brewing combines alien abduction and raspberry truffles: two great tastes that . . . oh, never mind.

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Someone raided Frontera today and plans to visit North Pond—all because of a mention in our story about underground sausage makers, whom those chefs do not patronize.

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From Browntrout to Zebda

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In this week's Food & Drink: Tavernita, Cocktail Challenge Kraft cheese powder packet, River North Mexican

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The Daily Beast picks the best restaurants to have opened since Labor Day, and Mike Sula's pick is no big surprise.