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Pizza City USA Tours, Open for Business
If you’ve been following my Instagram at all in the past year or so, you’ll see an inordinate amount of pizza. Slices, pies, wedges and all sorts of oven...
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Open Outcry Brewing Beer, Making Neapolitan Pizza in Beverly
The annual South Side Irish Parade steps off Sunday, but if you want something other than Guinness to go with your fish and chips, Beverly’s Open Outcry Brewing Company...
Ice, Ice Baby – S. Side Business Crafting Cool Cubes
If you’ve ever been to a great cocktail bar, you may have noticed how perfectly geometrical the ice cubes are. They just barely fit into the glass. In Chicago, there...
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Top 5 Pho in Chicago
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Chicago Pho Crawl, Ranking 31 Bowls in 31 Days
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Top 5 Italian Beefs in Chicago (City)
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Top 5 Italian Beefs in Chicago (Suburbs)
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Top 5 Cuban Sandwiches in Chicago
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Top 5 Fried Chickens in Chicago
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Top 5 Things I Ate/Drank in Louisville
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Top 5 Italian Red Sauce Joints in Chicago
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Top 5 Tacos in Chicago
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Top 5 Banh Mi in Chicago
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Lillie’s Q, Smoque, Bring Texas-style Brisket to Chicago
Memorial Day weekend means picnics of course, and for some, barbecue to go. I’ve been sampling some of the city’s best recently, including Texas-style brisket, which is smoked to...
Homemade Tortillas, Salsas & More at Minna’s
Most Mexican restaurants purchase their tortillas, since making them one at a time requires extra labor, expense and skill. But there’s a three year-old Mexican diner on the city’s...
Global Flavors Influence New Pilsen Restaurant
Pilsen continues to see signs of new development. From the stately Thalia Hall, to restaurants reaching beyond the neighborhood’s tradition of Mexican and Czech immigration. One of those new restaurants...
BBQ Spot Reinvents Itself, Makes Huge Improvements
Rub’s Backcountry Smokehouse is a distant memory now that the BBQ Supply Co. is fully in charge along Western Avenue in the West Rogers Park neighborhood, near the city’s...
Chinatown Cafe Offers “Bubble Waffles”
Waffles are usually thought of as a breakfast food, but not in Hong Kong, where “bubble waffles” are a popular snack these days. Since they opened a few weeks...
Traditional Szechuan Far From Chinatown
Good Szechuan-style cooking can easily be found in Chinatown, but an even better option is at a family-run restaurant on Chicago’s Northwest Side where the grandfather is in the...
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Digging in Down Under
Here is a story I wrote for The Chicago Tribune’s Travel section about my food-filled trip to Sydney and Melbourne in 2017. Click here to read it.
Eating Osaka (The Globe and Mail)
I spent three days eating my way through Osaka, then wrote about it all for Canada’s Globe and Mail. Click on the images below to read the story.
