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News & Politics, News Nov 25, 2020
‘We're not asking for any more than what we are already deserved’

Boystown, the enclave billed as a place where LGBTQ+ people of all stripes are safe to be themselves, faces a racial reckoning decades in the making.
- By Adam M. Rhodes
- Tags: News, Boystown, Black Lives Matter, protest, racism, LGBT, Affinity Community Services, Reunion Chicago, Broadway Youth Center, Center on Halsted, Youth Empowerment Performance Project, Northalsted Business Alliance, Chicago Diner, Praxis Group

Music, Gossip Wolf Dec 16, 2019
Video
Eye Vybe Records doesn’t need you to pretend Christmas is fun

Plus: The FeelTrip crew wrap up their Reptilian Traxx party series, and Comfort Station throws a holiday benefit show with a dazzling lineup.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Eye Vybe Records, Alone in Logan on Christmas Eve, Cat Mullins & Them Boys, Magic Ian, Molasses Chicago, Cafe Mustache, Bric-a-Brac, Burlington, Chicago Diner, FeelTrip Records, David Beltran, Diana Bowden, Slippery Slope, No Requests, Reptilian Traxx, Steve Poindexter, DJ Hii, Druid Beat, DYB, Comfort Station, Holiday Concert Benefit, Angel Bat Dawid, Bill MacKay, Ohmme, Video

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 22, 2017
Readers' Poll
Best vegetarian restaurant
- Tags: Food & Drink, Chicago Diner, Readers' Poll

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 22, 2017
Readers' Poll
Best vegan restaurant
- Tags: Food & Drink, Chicago Diner, Readers' Poll

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 23, 2016
Readers' Poll
Best vegetarian restaurant
- Tags: Food & Drink, Chicago Diner, Chicago Diner, Readers' Poll

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 23, 2016
Readers' Poll
Best vegan restaurant
- Tags: Food & Drink, Chicago Diner, Chicago Diner, Readers' Poll

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink 2015 Readers' Poll Jun 24, 2015
Best vegetarian restaurant
- Tags: Food & Drink 2015 Readers' Poll, Best vegetarian restaurant, Best of Chicago 2015, Chicago Diner, Chicago Diner

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink 2015 Readers' Poll Jun 24, 2015
Best vegan restaurant
- Tags: Food & Drink 2015 Readers' Poll, Best of Chicago 2015, Best vegan restaurant, Chicago Diner, Chicago Diner

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 25, 2014
Readers' Poll
Best waitstaff

Lula Cafe
- Tags: Food & Drink, Best of Chicago 2014, best waitstaff, Lula Cafe, Chicago Diner, Readers' Poll

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 25, 2014
Readers' Poll
Best vegetarian restaurant

The Chicago Diner
- Tags: Food & Drink, Best of Chicago 2014, best vegetarian restaurant, The Chicago Diner, Handlebar, Chicago Diner, Readers' Poll

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 25, 2014
Readers' Poll
Best vegan restaurant

The Chicago Diner
- Tags: Food & Drink, Best of Chicago 2014, best vegan restaurant, The Chicago Diner, Native Foods Cafe, Chicago Diner, Readers' Poll

Blogs, Bleader Dec 8, 2013
Reader's Agenda Sun 12/8: The New Chicago Diner Cookbook release party, Natalia LaFourcade, and Ninotchka

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Sunday, December 8
- By Jillian Sandler
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Chicago Diner, Jo A. Kaucher, The New Chicago Diner Cookbook: Meat-Free Recipes from America's Veggie Diner, Center on Halsted, Natalia Lafourcade, Joe's Bar, Mujer Divina, Ninotchka, Gene Siskel Film Center, Ernst Lubitsch

Blogs, Bleader Sep 21, 2013
Reader's Agenda Sat 9/21: Fountain Art Fair, Chicago Food Social, and VeganMania

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Saturday, September 21
- By Tal Rosenberg
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Fountain Art Fair, Adult., Chicago Food Social, Big Star, Publican Quality Meats, Longman & Eagle, Chicago VeganMania, Jo Kaucher, Kat Barry, Chicago Diner, Arya Bhavan, Upton's, Urban Vegan

Music, Music Sidebar Jun 26, 2013
Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival 2013

The "arts" in this case include music from Cave, the Cairo Gang, and William Cepeda.
- By Shannon Nico Shreibak
- Tags: Music Sidebar, Kedzie, Diversey Avenue, Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival, Milo & Otis, Los Vicios de Papa, Cave, Dam-Funk, Jugo de Mango, Bare Mutants, All Tiny Creatures, Basic Cable, Luca Cimarusti, Lawrence Peters Outfit, Emmett Kelly, Cairo Gang, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Tobacco, Bill MacKay & LeRoy Bach, Santah, Dumpster Babies, Waco Brothers, M.A.K.U. Soundsystem, ShowYouSuck, AfriCaribe, Blue Ribbon Glee Club, Football, Netherfriends, Chicago Diner, Lula Cafe, Reno, Cards Against Humanity, Sonnenzimmer, Galer

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 19, 2013
Readers' Poll
Best Vegetarian

Chicago Diner
- Tags: Food & Drink, Best of Chicago 2013, Chicago Diner, Ground Control, vegetarian, Readers' Poll

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Jun 13, 2013
The Next level of vegan

Next's Vegan menu is predictably ambitious and fantastical, but can a vegetarian fine dining rookie hang with it?
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, vegan menus, Next Vegan, Fulton Market, vegetarian menus, vegetarian fine dining, fine dining, television, vegetables, HBO, Upton's, meat substitutes, The Wire, The Handlebar, Chicago Diner, David Beran, vegans, vegetarians, Mike Sula, mushrooms, chard, douchi, bean paste, seitan, small bites, avocado puree, presentations, Aviary, scavenging, nori dumplings, leeks, banana, cider vinegar, apple, lichen, service, showmanship, Next

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Apr 18, 2013
Where to fulfill your most intense food obsessions

Pie. Handmade noodles. Tacos. Italian subs. Bagels. Mac 'n' cheese. Tamales. Hot dogs. Pizza. Espresso. Oysters. And vegan everything.
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Hoosier Mama Pie Shop, Zocalo, Frontera, El Taco Veloz, pie, El Charro de San, L'patron, El Faro, Atotonilco, noodles, Los Gallos, Taqueria Moran, Harvest Time Foods, coffee, Quesedilla Reyna del Sur, Manolo's Tamales, El Milagro, Rosas Tamales, espresso, Superdawg, Big Guys, Gene and Jude's, Red Hot Ranch, vegan food, Chubby Wieners, oysters, subs, Italian subs, mac 'n' cheese, bagels, pizza, tacos, tamales, hot dogs, Twitter, Facebook, food obsessions, First Slice Pie Cafe, Bang Bang Pie Shop, Katy's Dumpling House, Jibek Jolu, Lazzat Euro Asian Cuisine, Intelligentsia, Wormhole Coffee, Gaslight Coffee Roasters, The Handlebar, Soul Vegetarian East, Arya Bhavan, Chicago Diner, Native Foods Cafe, Blind Faith Cafe, Shaw's Crab House, GT Fish & Oyster, The Publican, Bari Foods, D'Amato's #1 Italian and French Bakery, Gratto Pizzeria & Deli, Half Italian, Schubas, Kuma's Corner, New York Bagel & Bialy, Kaufman's Bagel & Delicatessen, The Bagel, Santullo's Eatery, Dante's Pizzeria, Pizza Metro, Art of Pizza, Bacci Pizzeria, Village Pizza, Once Upon a Bagel

Blogs, Bleader Sep 28, 2012
Chicago VeganMania is back

Chicago VeganMania includes chef demos and workshops and a Whole Foods worth of vegan nosh
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Cooking, Things I Love, Food & Drink, Chicago VeganMania, Broadway Armory, vegan, Chicago Diner, Upton's Naturals, Hug a Vegetarian Day, Tofurkey, Chicago Vegan Foods, Vegan Black Metal Chef

Music, Gossip Wolf Jul 24, 2012
Gossip Wolf: What, Lady Gaga again?

This time she dropped in at the Chicago Diner. Plus: New releases from Mayor Daley, the Odd Couple, and Airiel
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Lady Gaga, Pitchfork, Pitchfork 2012, Mayor Daley, Tony Roche, Zach Henderson, The Odd Couple, King Louie, How to Dress Well, Tom Krell, Airiel, Shelflife Records, Chicago Diner

Blogs, Bleader Jul 10, 2012
Chicago Diner set to open second location in Logan Square

The Chicago Diner is opening a second location in Logan Square
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Chicago Diner, Logan Square Kitchen, vegetarian, Dagwood, vegan, meatless, Logan Square

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 20, 2012
Readers' Poll
Best Vegetarian Restaurant

Chicago Diner
- Tags: Food & Drink, Chicago Diner, Readers' Poll

Blogs, Bleader Mar 15, 2012
This week's food and drink events

The Good Food Festival, a curling and lasagna event, Saint Patrick's Day specials, and more.
- By Daniel Gerzina
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Girl and the Goat, Kilgus Farms, Stillwater Artisanal Ales, Virtue Cider, Underground Goat, Cityscape Bar, Graystone Wines, Italiasia, Sheffield's, Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout, Good Food Festival, Localicious, Autre Monde Cafe, Big Bowl, Big Jones, Chicago Diner, City Provisions, Duke's Ale House and Kitchen, Province, Trattoria No. 10, the Bedford, Saigon Sisters, Browntrout, Uncommon Ground, Revolution Brewing Company, Half Acre, Goose Island, Templeton Rye, Sunnyside Up, Real Dirt on Farmer John, Markethouse, Lent, Bell's Ale, Green Line, Good Food Festival, Bruce Sherman, North Pond Restaurant, Mark Mendez, Vera, Rob Levitt, Butcher & Larder, Paul Virant, Vie, Culinary Historians of Chicago, Jennifer McLagan, Kendall College School of Culinary Arts, Chicago Curling Club, Twisted Butter, World Senior Curling Championship, U.S. Curling Team, Ram Brewery, Saint Patrick's Day, 25 Degrees, The Gage, Pizza Persona, The Southern, Jerry's Wicker Park, Renaissance Hotel Chicago, Dinner Tales, Blackbird, Paul Kahan, Mercadito, Patricio Sandoval, Olmeca Tequila, Chichicapa Mezcal, Double A, Firestone Walker XV, DJ Grimsborg, Mas de Gourgonnier, Daniel Hodge, H2Vino, Les Baux de Provence, Bistro Campagne.

Blogs, Bleader Jan 13, 2012
A conversation with seapunks

A chat over vegan food with Zombelle and Ultrademon
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Crickets, Music, seapunk, Albert Redwine, Ultrademon, Fire for Effect, Shan Beaste, Zombelle, Hakim Bey, the Internet, Chicago Diner, Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, lakepunk

Blogs, Bleader Nov 17, 2011
In this week's Reader: veggie mania

In this week's Reader: a collaborative guide to vegetarian and vegan Chicago, Key Ingredient haggis
- By Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Inside the Reader, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Environment, Eco, Behind Our Scenes, vegetarianism, veganism, Dan Staackmann, Upton's Naturals, Hugh Amano, Food on the Dole, Chicago Diner, Mickey Hornick, meat substitutes, seitan, Paul McGee, the Whistler, Cardinal Punch, Arya Bhavan, Ethiopian Diamond, The Handlebar, Karyn's on Green, Quesadilla, Urban Vegan, Victory's Banner

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Nov 17, 2011
Vegetarian questions and answers

Health myths, survival tips, recipes, and vices from 17 vegetarian, vegan, and veg-friendly Chicagoans
- By Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, vegetarian, vegan, health, environment, vegetarian recipe, vegetarian cookbook, Green Zebra, Soul Vegetarian East, Chicago Diner, The Whistler, The Handlebar, Karyn's on Green, Lula Cafe, Boka, Girl & the Goat, Schwa, Whistler

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