Kate Bernot

Wrigleyville is like a drunk eclipse. Stare directly at its center—Wrigley Field's Captain Morgan Club or the bleachers—and risk personal injury. It's sometimes marginally safer to stay around its periphery,...

Jonah Frank is the first to admit that it's going to be hard following Tona Palomino's act. "He's the warmest and most brilliant and clever and caring guy," Frank said...

You've seen the hike in lime prices at your grocery store, and bars are feeling it, too. A disease affecting Mexican lime trees means there's less fruit, and drug cartels...

Like marathon trainers on the lakeshore path and free music in Millennium Park, Chicago's street festivals are a sure sign that summer is coming. From Rogers Park to Hyde Park,...

The first thing Jared Rouben does when we meet is suggest we talk over a lunch of charcoal-grilled chicken, refried beans and arroz amarillo. We're here to chat beer—specifically, his...

Sorry, mimosa fans, you can sit this one out. The city will welcome Chicago's Bloody Mary Competition, its first festival dedicated solely to a brunch cocktail, June 8 from 11...

Most transplants to Chicago find themselves at a Cubs game before they make it to a Sox game, but why? While there's the allure—or threat, depending on your preferences—of a...

One year after opening well-received River North cocktail bar The Berkshire Room, Benjamin Schiller and The Fifty/50 Group (Roots Handmade Pizza, The Fifty/50, Homestead) will double down on their collaboration....

As bars phase out their bourbon-heavy winter cocktail menus, we're giddy to see tequila, gin and rum making their seasonal debuts. But along with those staples, bartenders are introducing other,...

We mapped the 45-plus new restaurant and bar patios, rooftops and sidewalk cafes debuting during the spring and summer of 2014. Green flags indicate outdoor spaces open now, weather permitting....