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Manager Vanessa Bucio readies food orders for pickup at Topolobampo.

The reluctant carryout chef: Rick Bayless had little use for takeout, until it became his only option.

December 1, 2020 at 8:51 p.m.

Part of our continuing look at how Chicago area restaurants are coping during the coronavirus pandemic. If any group of restaurants were equipped to handle a pandemic-fueled crisis like the...

Porto is a restaurant dedicated to the coasts of Galicia and Portugal and will feature conservas, seafood from Spain and a wood fire.

2 Chicago restaurants make Esquire’s Best New Restaurants list

November 17, 2020 at 5:54 p.m.

Two Chicago restaurants — Porto in West Town and Pizza Fried Chicken Ice Cream in Bridgeport — have been named to Esquire magazine's list of 2020's Best New Restaurants in...

Delivery fees charged to Chicago restaurants by third-party delivery companies such as Grubhub and Uber Eats would get capped under a proposal introduced to the City Council on Monday.

Chicago City Council to consider capping delivery app fees

November 17, 2020 at 4:22 p.m.

Delivery fees charged to Chicago restaurants by third-party delivery companies such as Grubhub and Uber Eats would get capped at 10% of the order's cost as long as indoor dining...

More than 20 chefs will prepare hundreds of ‘Chefsgiving’ dinners for those in need. You can help

November 12, 2020 at 8:34 p.m.

For the fifth straight year, chef Bill Kim will team with Inspiration Kitchens to prepare meals to those in need. For the event dubbed "Chefsgiving," Kim and 20 other Chicago...

Chef Brian Jupiter sits at Ina Mae Tavern & Packaged Goods.

Meal packages for displaced restaurant workers available Friday at Ina Mae Packaged Goods

November 12, 2020 at 8:16 p.m.

Sysco Chicago is partnering with Brian Jupiter and other Chicago chefs to provide meal packages to displaced restaurant workers. From noon to 2 p.m. Friday, Jupiter's Ina Mae Packaged Goods...

Server Norma Ruiz brings food to customers Imelda Caballero, center, and Guadalupe Cisneros at 5 Rabanitos restaurant on West 18th Street in Chicago's Pilsen neighborhood on Nov. 5, 2020.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot announces $10 million grant program for bars and restaurants struggling with COVID-19 shutdown

November 6, 2020 at 1:48 a.m.

Mayor Lori Lightfoot announced a $10 million federally funded grant program on Thursday intended to help independent Chicago bars and restaurants struggling with shutdowns brought on by the coronavirus pandemic....

Get Avec’s famed chorizo-stuffed dates — and other One Off faves — shipped to you for making at home

November 2, 2020 at 10:48 p.m.

One Off Hospitality (Avec, The Publican, Big Star, more) has combined some of the favorite dishes from the group's restaurants into a selection of from-scratch meal kits available to ship...

Four-star Ever restaurant pivots to carryout — get Curtis Duffy’s cooking for $55 instead of $285

November 2, 2020 at 8:50 p.m.

We know that Curtis Duffy can compose a crab medallion with osetra caviar and cashew powder over cucumber gelee stenciled with coconut milk. But can he make braised short ribs?...

Craving: Chicago’s best wings — for football watching and election results obsessing

November 2, 2020 at 7:03 p.m.

There's never a bad time for chicken wings, and, in fact, football season is a pretty good time to enjoy some saucy drums and flats — not to mention stress...

Indoor dining at Piccolo Sogno, Oct. 28, 2020, in Chicago's West Town neighborhood.

Chicago restaurants spent thousands on air filtration and other safety measures for indoor dining — only to be left out in the cold

October 30, 2020 at 3:20 p.m.

Anybody interested in buying a like-new air-purifying system? How about some custom-made, acrylic table dividers? Barely used. It might not actually be for sale (yet), but pandemic-weary restaurateurs say they're...

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