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- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Oct 31, 2019
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Phillip Foss in El
The restless innovator and Michelin-starred chef bares his soul in a new graphic novel.
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Aug 9, 2017
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Schwa, now with fewer drugs and more adult responsibility
Once infamous for its excesses, the influential restaurant from mercurial chef Michael Carlson has transformed into a fertile proving ground for Chicago’s next generation of young culinary talent. Now that it’s all grown up, has Schwa lost its edge?
- Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Oct 13, 2016
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Smyth is right at home among Chicago’s temples to high gastronomy
The fine-dining sibling to the Loyalist is worth a splurge.
- Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Feb 2, 2016
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Ravenswood's Band of Bohemia needs some practice
The "culinary brewhouse" from a team of Alinea and El Ideas vets is long on technique, short on soul.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 4, 2015
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Elizabeth gets companions, 5 Loaves gets a shock, and more food news
Elizabeth's doughnut and pop-up space, help out a south-side gem, El Ideas smells like teen spirit, and Nico Osteria wishes it was in Tijuana eating barbecued iguana.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 24, 2015
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How a chef cures meats for Chicago's first-ever Charcuterie Week
It's Charc Week, and here's how Scott Manley of Table, Donkey & Stick made his entries in the multi-restaurant celebration of cured meats.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 30, 2014
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Jean Banchet nominees show a scene that's doing just fine, thank you
The Jean Banchet awards are announced, and show that our scene is still about where real people eat.
- Blogs, Bleader Mar 18, 2014
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Phillip Foss's Meatyballs rides again
The El Ideas chef takes his meatball sandwich truck on the road again after two and a half years of fine dining.
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 20, 2014
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Meet the Chicago chefs who just got short-listed for the Beard Awards
This year's James Beard Awards short list gets Chicago pretty well.
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 15, 2013
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In the kitchen at El Ideas, the night before Michelin
Go inside the kitchen at newly Michelin-starred EL Ideas in our slide show.
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 15, 2013
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Go choco-nutty and offal-licious, pork hock and vegan strippers in Portland, and more things coming up
El Ideas has a guest, 1,000 pounds of chocolate await you, Cleetus wants you to try his beer, and more.
- Blogs, Bleader Apr 11, 2013
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This way for durian: Announcing the Key Ingredient Cook-Off
Coming May 3: Twenty-six Chicago chefs, five ingredients, primo booze, and bucks for the Healthy Schools Campaign
- Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Oct 31, 2012
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Into the woods, darkly, at Elizabeth
Iliana Regan's Elizabeth Restaurant is the setting for a delicious, sometimes eerie fairy tale
- Blogs, Bleader Oct 16, 2012
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Christopher Kimball vs. Michael Ruhlman
Throw off the yoke of Cook's Illustrated
- Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 20, 2012
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Best Fine-Dining Restaurant to Reinvent Fine Dining
El Ideas
- Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Jun 13, 2012
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Modernist dining and daring cocktails at Andersonville's Premise
The neighborhood lost a great hangout when In Fine Spirits closed. But it gained something just as good.
- Blogs, Bleader May 10, 2012
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James Beard Award winners and other food news bites
Eataly scouts locations, Hot Chocolate, reboots, reporters infiltrate Blommer, and more
- Blogs, Bleader Feb 2, 2012
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This week in Food & Drink
In this week's Food & Drink: Chris Nugent's new spot, Goosefoot, and other Lincoln Square restaurants
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 29, 2011
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133 tasty things from 2011
I ate it all
- Blogs, Bleader Dec 29, 2011
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This week in Food & Drink: Best restaurants 2011
Our critics' eight favorite restaurants from 2011, along with ten honorable mentions
- Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Dec 29, 2011
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Our favorite restaurants of 2011
From three iterations of Next to the humble pies of Bridgeport
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 28, 2011
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"The Rise and Fall of Meatyballs"
On the wages of food trucking—financial and personal—from Phillip Foss
- Blogs, Bleader Nov 25, 2011
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This week in Food & Drink
In this week's Food & Drink: El Ideas, Key Ingredient grass jelly, 12 gastropubs
- Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Nov 23, 2011
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At Phillip Foss's El Ideas, balls to all that
The chef ditches food trucking and says hello again to fine dining
