In case you missed Chicago’s Restaurant Week, you’ve got another (albeit shorter) chance to get a taste of some of Chicago’s best restaurants at Chicago Chef Week, running March 18-23. More than 50 eateries will be featuring special prix fixe menus, with lunch set at $22 and dinner at $39, plus tax and tip. … Continued
Tickets to Chicago’s 2012 Baconfest sold out in less than four hours, but you still have a few chances to snag some tickets for the April 14th event. You could write a poem about bacon, or just keep reading here for details on another cool contest.
MINNEAPOLIS – Beyond those images of Mary Tyler Moore flinging her chapeau into the sky, and a sweaty Prince belting out “Purple Rain” on stage at First Avenue, Minneapolis has, traditionally, been a repository for more Swedish jokes than I care to remember (including the one about how Aquavit couldn’t make it here, despite … Continued
Celebrate the return of Mad Men this March with a drink-mixing class by Femme du Coupe. Each Thursday this month, Femme du Coupe is offering a course on making three different cocktails, all of which celebrate the television show’s bygone drinking culture. The classes include materials and interactive lessons on creating the perfect drink. The … Continued
MIAMI – For the third time in less than an hour, I’m reaching for my SPF 30 sunscreen, feeling like one of the ubiquitous retirees or black hat-clad hasidic men who’s been in the sun too long. It’s a near-record day of heat in Miami, with the mercury pushing 84, and it’s still February. … Continued
Like a lot of my fellow UW-Madison graduates, I occasionally pine for a little reminder of my carefree days among the cheese curds, fish frys and cheap beer. Thankfully, L. Woods Tap & Pine Lodge is bringing the taste of Wisconsin’s north woods supper clubs to the Chicago area each week beginning this Friday. Midwest … Continued
Two weeks ago, I ran a little contest, asking you to tell me (on video), why you think you deserve to win VIP tickets to the already-sold-out WingFest on February 26th. I’m pleased to say, we have a winner.
Every Sunday, I look through the New York Times’ Magazine, always making a note to check out the food column. I’ll typically save the issue if it’s something interesting, but I rarely get around to actually making the featured recipe(s). A few weeks ago, however, I hung on to the January 15th issue and made … Continued
SCOTTSDALE, AZ – St. Charles, IL might as well be the boonies when it comes to culinary innovation. A few years ago, Pete Balodimas and his family tried to change all that with Fahrenheit, a cutting edge restaurant some 40 miles from downtown Chicago. But the restaurant didn’t last, and Balodimas soon moved up and … Continued
Here we go again. In what must surely be the result of another series of sleepless nights for chefs Dave Beran, Grant Achatz and the entire team at Next, the fourth iteration of that always-evolving restaurant begins this week, with a tribute to el Bulli. The ground-breaking, world-class restaurant in Roses, Spain (hence, … Continued
I was expecting Day 1 (Monday) at Publican Quality Meats to be busy, but not THIS busy. By 1 p.m., there were already people lining up to buy grass-fed beef from Wisconsin and homemade boudin blanc. An assortment of salumis at one case had a few guys taking rapturous nibbles from the free samples placed … Continued