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Summer eating list
I don't know if teachers still do this, but at the end of each school year, I was handed a summer reading list, a sheet of required and optional books that would prepare students for the coming school year. (I still owe a measure of revenge to the teacher...Tags: Sprout, Les Nomades, Ombra, Bars and Clubs, Dining and Drinking
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Where to celebrate Mother's Day
Mother's Day is a little more than a week away, so if you haven't made brunch/dinner plans, it's time to get cracking. Here are a few suggestions to get you started. Allium. Mother's Day brunch seatings from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Expansive buffet with...
Tags: Brunch, RPM Italian, Vie, Ann Sather, Oakbrook Center
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Ready, reserved
I have this problem. I made more New Year's Eve reservations than I can use. More than 100 of them, actually. Which is why, for the 12th straight year (and the 17th time in the past 19 years), I'll be giving them away to nimble-fingered readers who ask....
Tags: Disc Jockeys, Nellcote, Lula Cafe, Nightwood, Bistronomic
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Restaurant Week continues as dozens extend their dining deals
Tribune criticChicago Restaurant Week ends Sunday, but a few dozen restaurants will extend their $22 lunch, $33 and/or $44 dinner offers for a few more days, or more. This will be the fifth straight year this has happened; Chicago restaurants, happy with the extra...Tags: Bars and Clubs, Michael Jordan, Nellcote, Chicago Restaurants, Dining and Drinking
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Best in chow
What you hold in your hands is our favorite issue of the year. We get to revisit our sauce-stained notebooks and offer raised glasses to the restaurants and chefs we felt best defined Chicago's dining scene these past 12 months.
This marks our third...Tags: West Loop, Yusho, Chicago Restaurants, Dining and Drinking, Breads
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Phil Vettel recommends
A roundup of restaurants reviewed in 2012 by critic Phil Vettel.
Acadia ✭✭✭ 1639 S. Wabash Ave., 312-360-9500. Ryan McCaskey's gamble to place a luxury restaurant in the South Loop is, so far, paying off. People are crowding into...Tags: Sprout, Charlie Trotter's, CLTV, Nellcote, Water Tower
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A potluck kind of year
If only it were so easy to pithily proclaim 2012 as the Year of the (fill-in-the-blank). But there's really no one thread that neatly ties together the Chicago restaurant scene these last 12 months. A restaurant that put Chicago on the culinary map 25...Tags: Charlie Trotter's, Nellcote, Chicago Hotels, Auction Service, Doughnuts
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Other places to find doughnuts
Balena. Pastry chef Amanda Rockman updates the classic affogato (espresso and gelato) combo by adding two plump, cinnamon-sugar-dusted doughnuts to the mix, cleverly re-establishing the coffee-and-doughnuts connection. $8. 1633 N. Halsted St., 312-867-...Tags: Doughnuts, Lifestyle and Leisure, Bars and Clubs, Dining and Drinking, Foods and Beverages
May 17, 2012
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Jun 7, 2012
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