Best New Banh Mi
Winnetka boasts palatial homes, boutique stores, and pricey coffee, but a bangin’ banh mi shop? Just steps from the Home Alone house, this Vietnamese-Chinese joint that Kevin Diep opened last...
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Best Place to Blow Your Kid’s Mind
Each Sunday afternoon at Chicago Magic Lounge, a feat of pure impossibility is deftly performed: keeping a bunch of fidgety kids entertained for a full hour. The genre of children’s...
The Ramen Lord
At Chicago’s buzziest new restaurant, Mike Satinover is obsessed with one goal: making the perfect bowl of Japanese noodles.
20 Jewish and Chinese Chicagoans Eat Well on Christmas —Thanks to Each Other
Christmas bustles like few other days in Chinatown. With restaurants closed elsewhere, it’s almost become a cliché: we Chinese sitting shoulder to shoulder with our Jewish brethren, shoveling lo mein into...
How Jeanette Andrews Cracked the Impossible Bottle
The magician spent a year sequestered in her studio apartment pursuing a singular obsession: fitting solid objects through the mouth of a glass container.
Katsu, Whose Chef Could Turn Sushi Into a Story, Will Close This November
Chef Katsu Imamura and his wife Haruko have run one of the finest and most faithful Japanese restaurants in town for 29 years.
It’s still OK to put ketchup on hot dogs
*This article was originally published in October 2014. We are republishing it today as part of our Craving: Sausages coverage, because the ketchup-on-hot-dogs debate is ever-present in Chicago. Perhaps you...
Fried pizza at Fiamme
What we're talking about when we talk about pizza is, really, the crust. Toppings matter, of course, but the baseline for critiquing pizza is on the merits of the dough...
Chorizo-beef date burger at Avec
The French Laundry has its Oysters and Pearls, Alinea has the Truffle Explosion, Nobu has miso black cod. Each is a signature dish forever tied to its restaurant. Avec has...