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City Life
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Public Service Announcement
Jul 31, 2020
Not only in my dreams
What our listings coordinator is musing about this week
By Salem Collo-Julin
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livestream
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listings
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concerts
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artist talk
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artists
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dreams
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sleeping
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nightmares
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Derrick Clifton
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Mr. Clean
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airplanes
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Duchamp
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Loser
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sleep
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Mike McPadden
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Lumpen Radio
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Eye 94
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Mikki Kendall
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books
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My Bodyguard
Arts & Culture
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Art Feature
Feb 25, 2020
Recommended
The mix master
Nigerian-born, London-based fashion designer Duro Olowu curates one of the MCA’s largest shows ever filled with local treasures.
By Isa Giallorenzo
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Art Feature
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Duro Olowu
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Seeing Everything
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
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Naomi Beckwith
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Ikram Goldman
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Sally Singer
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Michelle Obama
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Block Museum of Art
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South Side Community Art Center
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National Museum of Mexican Art
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DuSable Museum of African American History
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Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art
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Henri Matisse
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Rene Magritte
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David Hammons
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Barbara Kruger
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Ana Mendieta
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Fred Wilson
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Dawoud Bey
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Simone Leigh
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Kerry James Marshall
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AfriCOBRA
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Chicago Imagists
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Duchamp
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Girogio de Chirico
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Salvador Dali
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Recommended
Food & Drink
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Restaurant Review
Jun 27, 2012
Red Door is a great hangout with a few hang-ups
Bucktown gastropub is pared down to the point of both elegant simplicity and stark discord
By Sam Worley
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Restaurant Reviews
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Bucktown
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gastropub
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Troy Graves
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Meritage
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Duchamp
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hospitality
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booze snow cones
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small plates
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Bohemian Blue cheese
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pub fare
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Red Door
Blogs
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Bleader
Nov 15, 2011
Beyond the bitters: last night's "Manhattan Experience"
The results of last night's "Manhattan Experience," a cocktail mix-off.
By Kate Schmidt
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Food Chain
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Food & Drink
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Woodford Reserve
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Quay
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bourbon
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craft cocktails
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manhattans
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Shawn Hazen
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Lauren Viera
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Drew Goss
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West Town Tavern
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Tim Williams
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Pour Souls
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Kris von Dopek
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Duchamp
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Johnny Avens
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Roof
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Orlando De Leon
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the Underground
Blogs
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Bleader
Nov 4, 2011
Stuart's Fancy Drinks
revisited
Some sample cocktail recipes from Thomas Stuart's 1896
Stuart's Fancy Drinks and How to Make Them
.
By Kate Schmidt
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Food Chain
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Food & Drink
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Thomas Stuart
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Stuarts Fancy Drinks and How to Make Them
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pre-Prohibition cocktails
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Plymouth Gin
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Kris von Dopek
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Duchamp
Blogs
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Bleader
Nov 3, 2011
This week in Food & Drink
In this week's Food & Drink: Key Ingredient turtle, the reinvented Pump Room, Cocktail Challenge nopales
By Kate Schmidt
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Food Chain
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Food & Drink
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Key Ingredient
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Edward Kim
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Ruxbin
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Beverly Kim
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Aria
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turtle
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Kristine Subido
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Wave
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balut
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the Pump Room
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Ian Schrager
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Jean-Georges Vongerichten
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ABC Kitchen
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Bradford Phillips
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Blackbird
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LM Restaurant
,
Kady Yon
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Boka Restaurant Group
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Public Chicago
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Duchamp
,
Kris von Dopek
,
Luke LeFiles
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Hot Chocolate
Food & Drink
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Cocktail Challenge
Nov 3, 2011
Slideshow
Cocktail Challenge: nopales
A cactus cocktail from Duchamp's Kris van Dopek
By Kate Schmidt
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Cocktail Challenge
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Duchamp
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cocktail challenge
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Slideshow
Food & Drink
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Restaurant Review
Dec 30, 2010
Awash in ampersands: Bangers & Lace and Blokes & Birds
The British invasion continues
By Julia Thiel
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Restaurant Reviews
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Bangers & Lace
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Blokes & Birds
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Bar DeVille
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Nightwood
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Duchamp
Food & Drink
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Restaurant Review
Jun 3, 2010
Alfresco!
Our annual, invaluable guide to outdoor dining
By
Reader
staff
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outdoor dining
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alfresco dining
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restaurant reviews
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Chicago restaurants
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A Tavola
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Anteprima
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Athena
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Bad Dog Tavern
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Big Star
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Birchwood Kitchen
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Bistro Campagne
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La Bocca Della Verita
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Boka
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Bonsoiree Cafe & Delicacies
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Bourgeois Pig
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Cafe Fresco
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The Chicago Firehouse
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Chief O'Neill's
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Cooper's
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La Creperie
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Crust
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Deleece
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Dick's Last Resort
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Duchamp
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Dunlays on the Square
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Enoteca Roma
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Epic
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Feed
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The Fireside
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Flatwater
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Folklore
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Fontana Grill & Wine Bar
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Fulton's on the River
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Got Spaghetti?
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Halsted's Bar & Grill
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The Handlebar
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Heartland Cafe
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Jam
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Juicy Wine Company
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Jury's
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LM Le Restaurant
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Longman & Eagle
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Lutz Continental Cafe & Pastry Shop
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M. Henry
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Market
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May Street Cafe
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Moody's Pub
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Nightwood
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90 Miles Cuban Cafe
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90 Miles Cuban Cafe
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NoMi
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Old Oak Tap
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The Orbit Room
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Las Palmas
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Park Grill
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Pasta d'Arte
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Pegasus
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Piccolo Sogno
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Prosecco
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The Purple Pig
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The Red Canary
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Resi's Bierstube
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Roof
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Rootstock Wine & Beer Bar
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Rose Angelis
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Sheffield's
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The Southern
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SushiSamba Rio
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Tapas Barcelona
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Taxim
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Tepatulco
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The Terrace at Trump
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Terzo Piano
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Trattoria Isabella
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Tre Kronor
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Twisted Spoke
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Volo Restaurant Wine Bar
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Zed 451
,
Zella
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Bonsoiree
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Cucina Madonna
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694 Wine & Spirits
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LM Restaurant
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NoMi Kitchen
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Briciola
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Copper House
,
Grandview Tavern & Beer Garden
,
Pasta d'Arte Trattoria Italiana
Food & Drink
,
Restaurant Review
May 6, 2010
Prix Fixe
A dozen dinner deals
By Kate Schmidt, Mike Sula, Anne Spiselman, Ted Cox, Mara Tapp, Martha Bayne, and David Hammond
Tags:
Restaurant Reviews
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Between Boutique Cafe & Lounge
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Jose Victorio
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Blue 13
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Chris Curren
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Browntrout
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Sean Sanders
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C-House
,
Cafe Matou
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Nicole Pederson
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Charlie Socher
,
Brandon Canfield
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The Dining Room at Kendall College
,
Duchamp
,
Michael Taus
,
Erwin
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Erwin Drechsler
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Eve
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Troy Graves
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Andy Motto
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Quince
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Sabor Saveur
,
Yanitzin Sanchez
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Deleece
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Between Peruvian Cafe & Lounge
Food & Drink
,
Restaurant Review
Nov 13, 2008
Food Issue 2008: Best New Chicago Restaurants - Honorable Mention
Eleven more notable new restaurants
By
Reader
staff
Tags:
Restaurant Reviews
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Big Jones
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Blue 13
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The Bristol
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Duchamp
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Marion Street Cheese Market Cafe
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Mexique
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Mixteco Grill
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Nia
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Perennial
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Real Tenochtitlan
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Veerasway
,
Polanco
Blogs
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Bleader
Oct 2, 2008
Seven new reviews
Ten new restaurant reviews in Food & Drink this week.
By Mike Sula
Tags:
Food & Drink
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Food Chain
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Old Oak Tap
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Urban Belly
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Duchamp
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Cipollina
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Madame Tartine
,
Marion Street Cheese Market Cafe
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Tapas las Ramblas
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