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- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Jul 3, 2020
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Bye Bye Blackbird
Farewell to one of Chicago's most iconic restaurants.
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Oct 25, 2019
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Eat antique beef at Publican Quality Meats
One seven-year-old cow. Six chefs. Six dishes.
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Oct 8, 2019
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Cooking for Good Times is Paul Kahan's last cookbook
It's a party at Paul's.
- Blogs, Bleader Sep 4, 2018
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Pretty Cool Ice Cream is the anti-Happy Place
Pastry chef Dana Salls Cree's novelty ice cream shop is a genuine antidote for end-time anxiety.
- Blogs, Bleader May 17, 2018
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How Mordecai chef-owner Matthias Merges helped transform modern fine dining
A phone call to PolyScience in Niles resulted in the popularization of immersion circulators in restaurant kitchens.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 5, 2018
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Gubernatorial candidate Jeanne Ives’s ad offends both sides of the aisle, and other Chicago news
Also, attorney general candidate Scott Drury believes Madigan thought he was wearing a wire during a meeting.
- Food & Drink, Key Ingredient May 24, 2017
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Chef Ryan Pfeiffer pays tribute to his culinary mentor, Tim Bucci
The Blackbird chef still applies the lessons of his first instructor.
- Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Jan 25, 2017
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Hygge meets the midwest at Elske
Fine-dining power couple David and Anna Posey stake a claim on the lonely end of Randolph Street.
- Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Dec 9, 2016
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A former Schwa chef delivers audacious fine dining at Entente
Brian Fisher upends expectations in an unlikely spot: Lakeview.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 2, 2016
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Chicago area forecasted to have the weakest real estate market in the U.S. in 2017, and other news
Also, there have been more than 700 murders in the city so far this year.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 14, 2016
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Watch Blackbird chef Ryan Pfeiffer make a dish with a British condiment that ‘looks like shit but tastes good’
Challenged to create an entree using Branston Pickle, Pfeiffer takes a cue from the classic French chef Auguste Escoffier.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 17, 2016
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A sandwich designed for vampires at Revival Food Hall’s Danke
Chef Scott Manley has created a bloody good seasonal sandwich.
- Food & Drink, Fall Preview Sep 2, 2016
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Five new beer-centric spots opening in the fall
Moody Tongue’s tasting room and much more brewing around Chicago
- Food & Drink, Fall Preview Sep 2, 2016
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The most-anticipated fall restaurant openings
The return of Burt's Place, Iliana Regan's Kitsune, and more new spots
- Blogs, Bleader May 26, 2016
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This video recap of the 2016 Key Ingredient Cook-Off will make you ravenous
Ryan Pfeiffer of Blackbird and Abraham Conlon of Fat Rice were this year's Key Ingredient Cook-Off winners.
- Blogs, Bleader May 16, 2016
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Get tickets to the Reader's Key Ingredient Cook-Off happening this Friday, May 20
Chefs from Fat Rice, Topolobampo, Blackbird, and more of Chicago's best restaurants are cooking custom dishes in the West Loop.
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Oct 15, 2015
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1871 Dairy brings Chicago milk back from the dead
Illinois's dairy heritage has been resurrected by a former pencil pusher who just wanted healthy milk for his family.
- Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Sep 28, 2015
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Johnny's Grill in Logan Square is a greasy spoon no more
Acclaimed pastry chef Sarah Jordan classes up the joint—mostly for the better.
- Blogs, Bleader Jan 27, 2015
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Long-form food writing isn't dead meat
There's still good, meaty writing about food happening—you just have to look for it a little.
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 3, 2014
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Math-metal riff masters American Heritage go out with a bang (and a whimper)
Today's 12 O'Clock Track, "Blackbird," appears on the final American Heritage album, Prolapse, which came out last week.
- Blogs, Bleader Aug 8, 2014
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Happy tenth to the city's best restaurant . . . in the suburbs
Paul Virant's Vie turns ten.
- Blogs, Bleader Jul 9, 2014
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Performing food writers, old steak-house waiters, and other things happening now
Gael Greene at Blackbird, Lollapalooza at Quartino, and other things to eat, do, and read
- Blogs, Bleader May 9, 2014
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Reader's Agenda Fri 5/9: Key Ingredient Cook-Off, Let's Get Working, and Young Fathers
What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, May 9
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 19, 2014
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Restaurants in running for Beards, media not so much
The James Beard Foundation Awards announcements yesterday showed a scene that's strong on one side, not very strong on the other.
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Mar 5, 2014
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What happens when all-star chefs get in bed with Big Food?
Culinary icons from Paul Kahan to Rick Bayless, Grant Achatz to Matthias Merges, Ina Pinkney to Homaro Cantu have forged unlikely relationships with brands such as Nestle, Kraft, and Lean Cuisine. The results might surprise you.