Ina Pinkney

I get asked two questions regularly: 1) What's your favorite breakfast place? and 2) What do you have for breakfast when you're home? The first question is easy to answer....

People ask me if I ever write about places I don't like. I tell them it's not my job to hurt anyone. Recently, I began to worry about covering two...

Adding weekday breakfast to a restaurant's schedule is a very difficult decision and undertaking. Just because cooks are in the kitchen prepping ingredients for lunch or dinner does not mean...

Road trip! It was time to hit the road and find some interesting places beyond the city. When I asked people to recommend places for me to visit, mostly they...

June 2014 marked my first Breakfast with Ina column, which makes this my 25th! When people I see in the lobby of the Lyric, at the grocery store, at the...

I've said it before, and it's worth repeating: I can tell a lot about the experience I'm about to have at a restaurant as soon as I open the door....

In the rapidly changing restaurant industry, one of the fastest growing niches is fast casual. Table service, of course, is the traditional way: You are seated, and your order is...

Ask people what their favorite meal is, and they will most likely say it's breakfast. Me too. And yet, people accept mediocre food and service at this meal when they...

Sometimes a restaurant's personality is evident as soon as I walk in; other times it reveals itself in the course of my visit. The first two reviews are the former...

The breakfast scene keeps changing for the better, and I have three more wonderful recommendations for you this month. I'll begin with a Humboldt Park intersection that was forgotten and...