Category: Restaurants
Jimmy's cocktail book
Heaven on Seven chef/owner Jimmy Bannos, he of the famous red headband, kicked out a romping stomping pre-Mardi Gras party last night at his original [...]
Custom House a happy home
I am here to say with a full belly that Custom House lives up to the hype it has received. The meat-centric restaurant in the Printer's Row neighborho [...]
Morse Avenue – future restaurant row?
Neighborhood boosters in Rogers Park really want to see Morse Avenue transform into something special. The plan is to entice restaurants and cafes to [...]
Valentine Dinner Countdown Seven
This is the seventh of a week's worth of suggestions on where to take your honey on Valentine's Day. We're talking dinner here. (And yes, I realize th [...]
Tuesday, Tuesday, got the ugly building blues day
I'll always think of him as Charlie Trasher, and I'll never eat at his restaurant - even contemplating it gives me the trots.
It's easy to see th [...]
Valentine Dinner Countdown Six
This is the sixth of a week's worth of suggestions on where to take your honey on Valentine's Day. We're talking dinner here. (And yes, I realize that [...]
Valentine Dinner Countdown Five
This is the fifth of a week's worth of suggestions on where to take your honey on Valentine's Day. We're talking dinner here. (And yes, I realize that [...]
Valentine Dinner Countdown Three
This is the third of a week's worth of suggestions on where to take your honey on Valentine's Day. We're talking dinner here. (And yes, I realize that [...]
A Packer invades Soldier Field
Mike Wier is one brave developer. Wier, who sits on the board of the Green Bay Packers football team, is heading up the new Casablanca Lofts project a [...]
The Loop's hidden gems
We've been chatting here at YoChicago about how the Loop is full of little bars and restaurants and the like, that are tucked away from sight. Now tha [...]
Year of the Dog
Get your resolutions ready because Sunday begins the Chinese New Year. It's the Year of the Dog, 4704. And me, I was just getting used to writing 4703 [...]
Dinner and a ride
There's a great restuarant in Lincoln Park--literally in the park--that deserves your attention, especially at this time of year. It's called North Po [...]
Sake to you
Beginning tonight--tonight--the popular Sake and Sushi 101 class returns to Sushisamba Rio, the stylish River North restaurant at 504 N. Wells St. The [...]
In either Loop, $50 is $50
Anyone who dines at the South Loop's Opera Sunday through Wednesday in January receives a $50 gift certificate to Red Light, chef Jackie Shen's pan-As [...]
Le Deal at Le Lan
The inventive River North restaurant Le Lan, a collaboration between chefs Roland Licciono and Arun Sampanthavivat, is offering a $20.06 two-course me [...]
So long, Berghoff
You wouldn't have guessed it by the lines snaking down the sidewalk on West Adams Street lately but The Berghoff Restaurant, a Chicago icon, is closin [...]
Bucktown bistros
If it's trendy, you know it's going to show up in Bucktown/Wicker Park in droves. This year it's the wine cafe, offering lots of small plates to shar [...]
Hot chocolate choices
It's a dilemma as old as the Free Gift Wrapping With Any Purchase offer. You're shopping downtown, last minute, shivering to the bone, and all you wan [...]
Chocolate Cafe is West Loop's hidden gem
Randolph Street's "Restaurant Row" is about four blocks from my apartment in the West Loop, and sounded as good a street as any to explore possible ni [...]
Pho soup's sake
Not that a bowl of the classic Vietnamese soup, pho, isn't delectable in the dog days of summer (and it is), but when the weather turns ugly--like now [...]