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Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Jul 25, 2019
Whither the gator dog at Doggone’s?

A descendant of a New Orleans minichain surfaces in Logan Square.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Restaurant Review, Doggone's Chicago, Logan Square, Hot Doug's, encased meats, sausage emporium, gourmet hot dogs, Chance the Snapper, Humboldt Park alligator, alligator sausage, Skip Murray, Dat Dog, New Orleans, Franks ’N’ Dawgs, Doug Sohn, Swamp Dog, Nola Dog, Louisiana Smoke Dog, Murray Dog, andouille fries, etouffee fries

Blogs, Bleader Dec 9, 2016
Cafe Tola is building an empanada empire

Lakeview's tiny empanada emporium goes for big flavor in Hot Doug’s former digs.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, Cafe Tola, Looncheria y tacos, Hot Doug's, empanadas, Tacos, tortas, burritos, Mexican food, Big Star, Doug Sohn, Frida Kahlo

Music, Gossip Wolf Nov 1, 2016
Eat chili to help the Arts of Life Band release their first album

Plus: Postpunks Ganser continue a busy 2016 with a new EP, Konstantin Jace of Moritat spins 78s all month at the Peninsula, and more.
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, The Arts of Life, The Arts of Life Band, Charitable Chili Cook-Off, Doug Eigenberg, Chicago Fire, Hot Doug’s, Doug Sohn, Indiegogo, album, Ganser, This Feels Like Living, The Pop Ritual, Empty Bottle, Valentine’s Day, postpunk, Konstantin Jace, Moritat, 78s, Peninsula, Bryan Snow Jr., Space Snow, Lyrical Lemonade, Young Chicago Authors, Izerrick Aigbokhan, Smylez, King Louie, Live & Die in Chicago, RIP, obituary

Blogs, Bleader Apr 6, 2016
I don't miss Hot Doug's

The unending hype surrounding Doug Sohn's shuttered sausage emporium is ludicrous.
- By Ian Belknap
- Tags: Food & Drink, The Contrarian, Hot Doug's, Doug Sohn, Chicago Cubs, Wrigley Field

Blogs, Bleader Mar 17, 2016
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Catch the last Breakfast at Ina's this Saturday

The JCC Chicago Jewish Film Festival is hosting the final screening in the foreseeable future this Saturday.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Do This, Film, Food & Drink, Ina Pinkney, Breakfast at Ina's, Chicago Jewish Film Festival, Mercedes Kane, Doug Sohn, Layla Malia, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 9, 2015
Hot Doug returns (again!) for a hot dog festival

A hot dog festival, a barbecue festival, and more things happening in Chicago.
- By Michael Gebert
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, MFK, Zagat, Sarah Freeman, Nick Kokonas, Windy City Smokeout, Lillie's Q, Smoque, Hot Doug, Doug Sohn

Blogs, Bleader May 19, 2015
Is Hot 'G' Dog a worthy successor to Hot Doug's?

Emphatically yes. And there's no line—yet.
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Hot G Dog, Hot Doug's, Doug Sohn, Octavio Garcia, Juan Carlos Garcia, hot dogs, sausages

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Nov 13, 2014
Thirty of Chicago's most important moments in food

Nearly two centuries of Chicago's culinary milestones, from its first lunch counter to its first Olive Garden
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Food Issue 2014, Chicago culinary timeline, William Sianis, Billy Goat Tavern, Garrett's Popcorn, George Apostolou, gyro, Parkview Restaurant, Rich Melman, RJ Grunt's, Lettuce Entertain You, Taste of Chicago, Charlie Trotter's, Juan C. Figueroa, jibarito, Borinquen Restaurant, Green City Market, Hot Doug's, Doug Sohn, Alinea, foie gras, Paul Kahan, Big Star, Olive Garden

Blogs, Bleader Oct 3, 2014
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A tribute to Hot Doug (with video)

It is Hot Doug's last day, sic transit gloria mustard.
- By Michael Gebert
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Hot Doug's, Doug Sohn, Key Ingredient, Eddie Lakin, Edzo's Burger Shop, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 15, 2014
Worlds collide with the Hot Doug's-Butcher & Larder sausage collaboration

Butcher and sausage maker collaborate to make something "completely ridiculous and over the top."
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: One Bite, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Hot Doug's, Doug Sohn, Butcher & Larder, Rob Levitt, sausage, truffles, bratwurst, foie gras, pork rinds, chicaharrones

Arts & Culture, Lit Feature Jun 6, 2013
The Reader's guide to the Printers Row Lit Fest

Judy Blume, Art Spiegelman, D.T. Max, Haki Madhubuti, and more: Our critics pick favorites for the annual book blowout.
- By Jena Cutie, Aimee Levitt, Kate Schmidt, Julia Thiel, and Kevin Warwick
- Tags: Lit Feature, American Heritage Dictionary, Jenniffer Weigel, D.T. Max, New Yorker, Manus Carlsen, Helene Grimaud, Grant Achatz, David Foster Wallace, Jennifer Day, Chicago Tribune, Printers Row Journal, Judy Blume, mysteries, Art Spiegelman, Ivan Brunetti, comics, graphic novels, Columbia College, Printers Row, Printers Row Lit Fest, Sharon FIffer, Gillian Royes, Libby Fischer Hellmann, Jamie Freveletti, oral history, history, books, novels, Third World Press, Haki Madhubuti, Hot Doug's, Doug Sohn, Tavi Gevinson, bloggers, blogs, fashion, Alan Sepinwall, Slate, Grantland, Salon, Paste, television, writers, authors, Phil Rosenthal, The Wire, Mad Men, Breaking Bad, HitFix, What's Alan Watching?

Blogs, Bleader Oct 24, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Wed 10/24

What's on the Agenda for Wednesday, October 24, 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Chicago History Museum, Second City, Tomb Talks and Ghost Stories, Congress Theater, Logan Square, Justice, Audio Video Disco, Miles Raymer, The Lincoln Lodge, Eat This! Stories for the Love of Food, Doug Sohn, Hot Doug's, Victoria Wiedel, Center Square Journal

Blogs, Bleader May 2, 2012
Help write the book on Hot Doug's

Doug Sohn is soliciting contributions for a Hot Doug's book
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Shameless SEO, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Doug Sohn, Hot Doug's, hot dogs

Blogs, Bleader Mar 2, 2012
News Bites: Your latest local food news roundup

A new Filipino chicken spot in Uptown, the Wheel House opens, a new Rick Bayless location opens
- By Daniel Gerzina
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Kristine Subido, Wave, W Lakeshore Hotel, Wheel House, Kuma's Corner, Jack Stankovic, Mark Bazer, Hot Doug's, Doug Sohn, the Local Beet, CSA Guide, Leela, Bangkok, Bang Rak Market, Wild Game Dinner, Harvard Sportsman's Club, Rick Bayless, Tortas Frontera, Chase Tower's Urban Market.

Blogs, Bleader Dec 16, 2011
Key Ingredient turns 50 (episodes)

Thoughts on the first 50 episodes of Key Ingredient
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Food & Drink, Key Ingredient, Jason Hammel, Lula Cafe, gjetost, Michael Gebert, James Beard award, Grant Achatz, Alinea, John des Rosiers, Inovasi, Curtis Duffy, Avenues, Grace, geraniums, Mindy Segal, Hot Chocolate, Mark Steuer, the Bedford, bananas, Michael Carlson, Schwa, Shawn McClain, Green Zebra, blood, Malort, Greg Biggers, Cafe des Architectes, azuki bean paste, Jared van Camp, Old Town Social, Nellcote, Stephanie Izard, Girl and the Goat, confectioner's sugar, Erling Wu Bower, the Publican, Asian carp, Bryce Caron, Blackbird, Cary Taylor, the Southern, fish eyeballs, Doug Sohn, Hot Doug's, chicken feet, fresh blood, Shawn McClain, Green Zebra, rabbit lungs, Jeffrey Hedin, Leopold, duck Tongues, Jason Vincent, Nightwood, bamboo woms, Luke Creagan, Pops for Champagne, cod milt, Duncan Biddulph, Rootstock, bull's testicles, David Posey, Blackbird, natto, Brian Enyart, Topolobampo, balut, Kristine Subido, Wave, John Anderes, Telegraph, ash, Andrew Zimmerman, Sepia, lamb fat

Blogs, Bleader May 13, 2011
This Week in Food & Drink: Next—Paris 1906, the Doughnut Vault Taste Test, Key Ingredient Vienna Beef Hot Dogs, and More

This week in Food & Drink: the Alinea group's Next, the intern and the food critic on the Doughnut Vault, Smoque's Barry Sorkin turns Vienna Beef hot dogs into dragon turds for Key Ingredient, and Sepia's Josh Pearson creates the Propawhat Margarita out of the bee resin propolis for our new cocktail challenge.
- By Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Next Restaurant, Grant Achatz, Nick Kokonas, Dave Beran, Escoffier, Le Guide Culinaire, Paris 1906, the Doughnut Vault, Old Fashioned Donuts, Key Ingredient, Beard awards, Hot Doug's, Doug Sohn, Smoque, Barry Sorkin, Vienna Beef hot dogs, dragon turds, Cleetus Friedman, City Provisions Deli, bourbon, Josh Pearson, Sepia, propolis, margaritas, Cristiana DeLucca, the Drawing Room, Vegemite

Food & Drink, Key Ingredient May 12, 2011
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Key Ingredient: Smoque's Barry Sorkin turns Vienna Beef hot dogs into "dragon turds"
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Key Ingredient, Barry Sorkin, Smoque, Doug Sohn, Hot Doug's, Vienna beef hot dog, jalapeno peppers, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 6, 2011
This Week in Food & Drink: GT Fish & Oyster, Hot Doug Does Chicken Feet, Cocktail Challenge Seaweed, Raw Milk Farmstead Cheese, and More

In this week's Food & Drink: GT Fish & Oyster, Hot Doug takes on chicken feet for Key Ingredient, Cocktail Challenge seaweed, raw milk farmstead cheese, and more
- By Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Boka Restaurant Group, GT Fish & Oyster, Giuseppe Tentori, Benjamin Schiller, Kady Yon, Rowan Jacobsen, Shadows on the Gulf, Bruce Sherman, North Pond, Pasticceria Natalina, Natalie Zarzour, Scott Harris, Francesca's, Glaze, Panza, Hot Doug, Doug Sohn, chicken feet, Carlos Gaytan, Mexique, Barry Sorkin, Smoque, Vienna Beef hot dogs, Fons Smits, Ludwig Farmstead Creamery, raw milk cheeses, Benjamin Schiller, kombu, seaweed, DiSotto Enoteca, Fork, Marion Street Cheese Market Cafe

Food & Drink, Key Ingredient May 5, 2011
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Key Ingredient: Hot Doug makes a masterpiece of chicken feet
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Key Ingredient, Hot Doug's, Doug Sohn, Carlos Gayton, Mexique, chicken feet, Barry Sorkin, Smoque BBQ, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 29, 2011
This Week in Food & Drink: Garlic Mustard, Cafe des Architectes, Key Ingredient Dried Shrimp, a New Cocktail Challenge, and More

This week in Food & Drink: what to do with the invasive plant garlic mustard, Key Ingredient dried shrimp, Cafe des Architectes under new chef Greg Biggers, a new cocktail challenge, and more.
- By Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Environment, Eco, Garlic mustard, invasive plants, Mike Ryan, Sable, Iliana Regan, foraging, Key Ingredient, dried shrimp, Carlos Gaytan, Mexique, Doug Sohn, Hot Doug's, chicken feet, Cafe des Architectes, Greg Biggers, Martial Noguier, Bistronomic, Defaced Barware, Pete Guigni, the Bedford, Mark Steuer, Gabe Klein, Chicago Department of Transportation, food trucks, Rahm Emanuel, On the Fly, Smartkarts, Smartkafes, licensing, Scott Waguespack, Jim Graziano, J.P. Graziano, Green City Market, Rob Levitt, Butcher & Larder, Share Our Strength, child hunger, bake sale, raffle

Blogs, Bleader Dec 3, 2009
This Week's Food and Drink Events

Doug Sohn on the Guy Fieri Road Show, the launch of Life & Limb beer, the latest show from the Drinking & Writing Brewery, and more.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Guy Fieri Road Show, Doug Sohn, World of Chocolate, AIDS Foundation of Chicago, Faith & Whiskey, Prohibition repeal party, Chicago Foodways Roundtable, Chicago's Second Greatest Fire, Drinking & Writing Brewery, Uncommon Ground, Fresh, the Gage, Glenlivet, Dogfish Head, Sierra Nevada, Life & Limb, Limb & Life

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Dec 3, 2009
What's New

Reviews of Edzo's Burger Shop, Belly Shack, LM, and six more recently opened restaurants
- By Kate Schmidt and Mike Sula
- Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Edzo's Burger Shop, Edzo's Burger Shop review, Hot Doug's, Eddie Lakin, Doug Sohn, Maxwell Street-style Polish, Tru, Nacional 27, Bill Kim, Yvonne Cadiz-Kim, Belly Shack, Belly Shack review, Chino-Latino, street food, Le Lan, Blackbird, Tru, Nomi, Matt Fisher, Tallulah, Bradford Phillips, LM, LM review, Stephan and Nicole Outrequin Quaisser, Aja, Ajasteak, Duroc spare ribs, BenjYehuda, Merkts spreadable cheddar, Jacky's on Prairie, Blind Faith Cafe, Jacky's Bistro, Pelago Ristorante, Raffaello, Red Brick, Sabor Saveur, Mexique, Yanitzin Sanchez, Urban Belly

Blogs, Bleader Oct 28, 2009
This Week's Food and Drink Events

Freaktoberfest, Zombie Doug's, David Sax's signing of Save the Deli, and more.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Freaktoberfest, Cigars and Stripes, Zombie Doug's, Lula Cafe, Doug Sohn, Hot Doug's, David Sax, Save the Deli, Manny's Deli, Festival of Wood and Barrel Aged Beers, Smart Museum of Art, "Heartland, " "Soul of the Heartland: Chicago Religion, Nature, and Food, " Martin Marty, Daniel Block, Surly Brewing Company, Sheffield's

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Oct 1, 2009
Hot Diggity

Twelve hot dog stands
- By Martha Bayne, David Hammond, Mike Sula, Katie Buitrago, Michael Gebert, Jenny B. Davis, Tom Keith, and Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Chicago-style hot dogs, The Dog Joint, hot dog stands, Drew's Eatery, Express Grill, Felony Franks, Gene & Jude's, Hot Doug's, Doug Sohn, Jim's Original, Morrie O'Malley's Hot Dogs, Superdawg, Vienna Beef Factory Store & Deli, Wiener and Still Champion, The Wiener's Circle, Vienna Beef, The Wieners Circle

Blogs, Bleader Apr 30, 2009
This week's food and drink events

Toast of the Town, Battle of the Belgians, Mole de Mayo, and more.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, Bruce Kraig, Chicago Foodways Roundtable, Vie, Sepia, Robie House, Taste Food and Wine, Doug Sohn, Jake Melnick's Corner Tap, Hot Dog: A Global History, Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust, Eric Aubriot, Mole de Mayo, Blue Sky Bakery, Battle of the Belgians

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