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New Year's Eve
Dec 18, 2014
More than 50 of the best New Year's Eve 2014 events
Ring in 2015 with everything from a balloon drop to a Mexican feast to a beach party.
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2015
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Food & Drink
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Food & Drink News
Oct 27, 2011
Soup and Bread Cookbook
Building community one pot at a time
By Julia Thiel
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Food & Drink News
Food & Drink
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Food & Drink News
May 19, 2011
The new Bite Cafe, the Original Five BBQ, Bivona Ristorante, and other recent openings
By Ted Cox, Kevin Warwick, Julia Thiel, Izidora Angel, Mike Sula, Kate Schmidt, and Sam Worley
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Antico
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Avocado Cafe & Eatery
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Bite Cafe
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Bivona Ristorante-Pizzeria
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Gosu
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Kingfisher
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The Original Five BBQ
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Uptown Pie Company
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The Avocado Cafe & Eatery
Food & Drink
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Food & Drink News
Apr 28, 2011
Under new toque Greg Biggers, seasonality and sweetness reign at Cafe des Architectes
By Mike Sula
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Cafe des Architectes
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Greg Biggers
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Martial Noguier
Food & Drink
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Food & Drink News
Apr 28, 2011
Eight spots for spring
By Mike Sula, Kathie Bergquist, Martha Bayne, Ira Glass, and David Hammond
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Browntrout
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Chalkboard
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Girl & the Goat
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Green Zebra
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Lula Cafe
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Markethouse
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Nightwood
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Vie
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Homegrown Cafe
Food & Drink
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Food & Drink News
Apr 21, 2011
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What's New: Antico
The neighborhood restaurant refined.
By Ted Cox
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Antico
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Bucktown
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restaurant review
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neighborhood restaurant
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Trinna Schramm
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Alinea
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Brad Schlieder
Food & Drink
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Food & Drink News
Apr 14, 2011
What's New: Fish Bar
Michael Kornick and David Morton go nautical at this Lakeview spot next to their DMK Burger Bar.
By Mike Sula
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Michael Kornick
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David Morton
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Fish Bar
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DMK Burger Bar
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seafood
Food & Drink
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Food & Drink News
Apr 7, 2011
What's New: Homaro Cantu's Ing brings Motodelic Asian fare to the former Otom space.
By Mike Sula
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Chef Homaru Cantu
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Ing Restaurant
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Moto
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Otom
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Chef Thomas Bowman
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Chef Grant Achatz
Food & Drink
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Food & Drink News
Mar 10, 2011
Restaurant Listings: Ace's, Ethel's, and More Soul Food
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Ace's Soul Food Cafe
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Captain's Hard Time Dining and Josephine's Cooking
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Ethel's Soul Food
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Daley's Restaurant
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Macarthur's
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Miss Lee's Good Food
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Pearl's Place
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St. Restaurant #2 Country Cooking
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Turner's Family Soul Food
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Captain's Hard Time Dining & Josephine's Cooking
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St. Restaurant #2 Country Kitchens
Food & Drink
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Food & Drink News
Mar 3, 2011
Morsels: Homaro Canto's Ing Opens
Bringing nanobeers and hand-pulled noodles. Plus: Fish Bar and Carnival at SushiSamba Rio
By Kate Schmidt
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nanobrews
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Homaru Cantu
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Ing
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Fish Bar
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Garrett Kern
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Chef Thomas Bowman
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David Morton
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Michael Kornick
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Burger Bar
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SushiSamba Rio
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Carnival
Food & Drink
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Food & Drink News
Mar 3, 2011
Fourteen New Restaurants
Public House, Big Stuff, the southwestern Abiquiu Cafe, and more
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Abiquiu Cafe
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Big Stuff
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Broken Plate Bar and Grill
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Caminito Argentinian Grill
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DiSotto Enoteca
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MC Bistro
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Public House
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Red Lion Lincoln Square
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Rewster's
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Seadog Sushi Bar
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Silom 12
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694 Wine & Spirits
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Westminster Hot Dog
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Wolcott's
Food & Drink
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Food & Drink News
Feb 3, 2011
Valentine's Day Specials (2011)
Where Cupidity reigns
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specials
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Balsan
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The Bento Box
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Big Jones
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Bistro Bordeaux
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Blokes & Birds
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Boka
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The Bristol
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Ceres' Table
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Chizakaya
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The Gage
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Girl & the Goat
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Graham Elliot
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Hearty
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Jacky's on Prairie
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Henri
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Los Moles
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Marigold
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Mercadito Chicago
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Morton Arboretum
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Nana
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People Lounge
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Prairie Fire
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Province
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Ria
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Saigon Sisters
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Shokran
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Sixteen
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SushiSamba Rio
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Swissotel Chicago
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Taxim
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312 Chicago
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Uncommon Ground on Devon
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Uncommon Ground
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Vie
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West Town Tavern
Food & Drink
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Food & Drink News
Jan 6, 2011
On the Rocks: Le Passage
Belgium comes to West Town, Patty’s Diner closes, and more
By Kate Schmidt
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Jeffrey Hedin
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Jennifer Galdes
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Sarah Stegner
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Sarah Stegner Resolution Club
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Charles Joly
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mixologist Charles Joly
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On the Rocks
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best Chicago diner
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Leopold
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Prairie Fire
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Le Passage
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The Drawing Room
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Patty's Diner
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Opera
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Adobo Grill
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Spring
,
Eve
Food & Drink
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Food & Drink News
Dec 2, 2010
Hellos and Good-Byes
Drinks Over Dearborn gives up the ghost; new spots for craft brews and Belgian fare
By Kate Schmidt
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Kyle McHugh
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Drinks Over Dearborn
Blogs
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Bleader
Sep 1, 2010
The Draft Shared-Kitchen Ordinance in All Its Glory
A draft shared-kitchen ordinance has dropped.
By Mike Sula
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Politics
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Food & Drink
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Clout City
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shared kitchens
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kitchen incubators
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Alexis Leverenz. Kitchen Chicago
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Zina Murray
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Logan Square Kitchen
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Splice Kitchen
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Tonia Ojuluwayo
,
Walter Burnett
Blogs
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Bleader
Aug 25, 2010
Kaplan's Liquors Kicks Out the Dummies
Bridgeport's Kaplan's Liquors, aka Maria's, is reopening as Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bar this Friday.
By Mike Sula
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Music
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Food & Drink
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Kaplan's Liquors
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Maria's
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Maria Marszewski
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Ed Marszewski
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Mike Marszewski
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Paul McGee
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the Whistler
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Bobby Conn
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Julie Pomerleau
,
Joe Bryl
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Bridgeport
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Best of Chicago
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dummies
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marionettes
Blogs
,
Bleader
Jul 12, 2010
Taste of Hysteria
A restaurant at Midway Airport thinks it's too good for Gulf shrimp.
By Mike Sula
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Food & Drink
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Colleen Rush
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Rick Tramonto
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Everett Rand
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Taste of Chicago
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Oak Street Beach Cafe
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Oak Street Beachstro
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Gulf seafood
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Midway Concessions
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Midway Wholesalers
Food & Drink
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Food & Drink News
Apr 29, 2010
Food Truck Roadblock
Pretty much every chef in Chicago has an idea for a food truck—but two of them have just served potential legislation to the City Council.
By Mike Sula
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Food & Drink News
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Chicago food trucks
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Chicago street food
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street food
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eloteros
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fruteros
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food trucks
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Vi Daley
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Phillip Foss
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Chicago health department
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Kitchen Chicago
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Flora Lazar
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Flora's Confections
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Green City Market
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Pickled Tongue
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Meatyballs
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pushcarts
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City Council
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Vee-Vee's African Restaurant
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Time Out Chicago
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Troy Marcus Johnson
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Chicago All Fired Up
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La Cense Beef Burger Truck
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Kogi BBQ
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Cary Taylor
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Jeff Pikus
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Brendan Reilly
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Tom Tunney
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Norma Reyes
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Mark Psilos
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Matt Maroni
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Scott Waguespack
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mobile food dispensers
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Rita Gutekanst
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Limelight Catering
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Gaztro-Wagon
News & Politics
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Feature
Mar 25, 2010
Video
The Culinary Solution
Figuring if you can't beat 'em, eat 'em, a local fishmonger surprises ten hotshot chefs with a delivery of Asian carp.
By Mike Sula
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Video
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Our Town
Mar 18, 2010
Green Carts, Shared Kitchens, Backyard Chickens, and Whole Hogs
Reporting from the FamilyFarmed Expo
By Martha Bayne
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Our Town
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FamilyFarmed Expo
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FamilyFarmed
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CSAs
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food policy
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community-supported agriculture
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Green Carts
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Karen Karp
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Sabrina Baronberg
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Kathleen Merrigan
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Sarah Eichberger
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food security
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Heartland Alliance
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community gardens
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shared-use kitchens
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Kitchen Chicago
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Alexis Leverenz
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Logan Square Kitchen
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Zina Murray
,
Jim Javenkoski
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Chapter 4-4-020
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food license
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snout-to-tail
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artisanal charcuterie
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Rob Levitt
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Mado
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Paul Kahan
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Blackbird
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Avec
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the Publican
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Ehran Ostrreicher
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E & P Meats
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Greg Gunthorp
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Gunthorp Farms
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Mike Sula
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whole-animal cooking
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offal
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backyard chickens
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Angelic Organics Learning Center
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Martha Boyd
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drinking locally
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Half Acre
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Koval Distillery
,
Metropolitan Brewery
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Goose Island
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Greg Hall
,
Adam Seger
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Nacional 27
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North Shore Distillery
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Joy Neighbors
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White Owl Winery
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Brian Ellison
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Death's Door Spirits
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Washington Island
Food & Drink
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Food & Drink News
Mar 18, 2010
The Dark Side
Standouts at Goose Island's Stout Fest 2010
By Philip Montoro
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Goose Island
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Stout Fest 2010
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Bourbon County Stout
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Dark Lord
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Dark Lord Day
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Rind Grind
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Irish Rose
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Blueberry Bourbon County Stout
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Greg Hall
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Tom Korder
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Goose Island's Night Stalker
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Revolution Brewing
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Black Power Oatmeal Stout
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Big Hugs
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the Roundhouse
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Captain Fantasy
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Lombard Rock Bottom
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Abduction
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Pipeworks
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Goose Island Brewpub
,
Revolution Brewing Company
Food & Drink
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Food & Drink News
Mar 11, 2010
Fresh From the Farm
Our guide to this year's CSAs
By Sam Worley
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Food & Drink
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Food & Drink News
Jan 7, 2010
One Bite: Birria
The birria at Restaurant Traspasada deserves some notice.
By Anne Spiselman
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birrierias
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Birrieria Zaragoza
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Restaurant Traspasada Inc. No. 2
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goat soup
Food & Drink
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Food & Drink News
Dec 17, 2009
New Year's Eve 2009: Dining
Menus and specials, from Adobo Grill to Zocalo
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Dec 3, 2009
This Week's Food and Drink Events
Doug Sohn on the
Guy Fieri Road Show
, the launch of Life & Limb beer, the latest show from the Drinking & Writing Brewery, and more.
By Julia Thiel
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Food & Drink
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Guy Fieri Road Show
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Doug Sohn
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World of Chocolate
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AIDS Foundation of Chicago
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Faith & Whiskey
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Prohibition repeal party
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Chicago Foodways Roundtable
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Chicago's Second Greatest Fire
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Drinking & Writing Brewery
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Uncommon Ground
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Fresh
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the Gage
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Glenlivet
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Dogfish Head
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Sierra Nevada
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Life & Limb
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Limb & Life
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