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Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Dec 20, 2017
The best new Chicago restaurants of the year

Seventeen spots where you could escape the Great Garbage Fire of 2017.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, best new Chicago restaurants 2017, 17 best new chicago restaurants, Balkan Grill Company, Gary, Indiana, pljeskavica, lepinja, kupus salata, urnebes, kajmak, Momo Bogdanovich, City Mouse, Ace Hotel, Randolph Row, Randolph Street restaurants, Jason Vincent, Ben Lustbader, Patrick Sheerin, Giant, Logan Square, Fulton Market District, the Kennison, the Lincoln Hotel, Bill Walker, country club culture, Somerset, Viceroy Chicago hotel, Gold Coast, Lee Wolen, Boka, Boka Restaurant Group, Bellemore Selam Ethi, Iliana Regan, Kitsune, North Center, izakaya, midwestern cuisine, Daisies, Joe Frillman, Zoe Schor, comfort food, Split-Rail, Selam Ethiopian Kitchen, tire siga, mitmita, senafich, Gorée Cuisine, Senagalese food, Kenwood, Diana Dávila, Mi Tocaya Antojería, Quiote, mezcal, Mexican food, Andrew Zimmerman, Sepia, Proxi, global street food, small plates, Marisa Paolillo, Mango Pickle, Edgewater, Indian food, the Spice Room, Mirabella Italian Restaurant & Bar, Irving Park, Old Irving, Gene & Georgetti, David Posey, Anna Posey, One Off Hospitality, Elske, hygge, coziness, eastern-European food, Heritage Restaurant & Caviar Bar, Humboldt Park, caviar

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Sep 7, 2017
Recommended
At City Mouse, Giant conquers the Fulton Market District

The restaurant anchoring the Ace Hotel is like a satellite for Jason Vincent and Ben Lustbader’s Logan Square mothership.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Restaurant Review, City Mouse, Ace Hotel, restaurant review, Giant, Jason Vincent, Ben Lustbader, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Jul 3, 2017
Illinois House approves income tax hike, spending plan, and other Chicago news

Also, Trump has reportedly tapped 48-year-old John Lausch as the U.S. attorney for Chicago.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Illinois, Springfield, budget impasse, Illinois General Assembly, Chicago, Michael Madigan, David Harris, Bruce Rauner, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Police Department, Chicago Fire Department, John Lausch, Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions, Zachary Fardon, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Ace Hotel, City Mouse, Giant, Jason Vincent, Pat Sheerin, restaurant openings, Fulton Market

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Aug 5, 2016
Recommended
Jason Vincent goes big at Giant

After a break, the former Nightwood chef is doing huge things in a little Logan Square spot.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Restaurant Review, Giant, Jason Vincent, Mike Sula, Avec, Josh Perlman, Ben Lustbader, Sink, Swim, Scofflaw, Good Humor, Travis Bickle, Lula Cafe, Seinfeld, You Fuck My Wine, Albariño, Recommended

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 25, 2014
Critics' Picks
Best Run by a Chef Prior to a Gracious Departure

Jason Vincent, Nightwood
- By Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food & Drink, Best of Chicago 2014, Run by a Chef Prior to a Gracious Departure, Jason Vincent, Nightwood, Food & Wine, Critics' Picks

Blogs, Bleader Apr 7, 2014
From burgundy at L2O to deviants at Punch House

Things that are happening, including a dance night for deviants and an $80 steak special.
- By Michael Gebert
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, L2O, Big Jones, David Burke's Primehouse, The Aviary, Crafthouse Cocktails, Punch House, Jason Vincent, Nightwood, Shae Daher, Benjamin Lustbader

Blogs, Bleader Feb 20, 2014
Video
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.
- By Michael Gebert
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, James Beard Foundation Awards, Phillip Foss, El Ideas, Paul Fehribach, Big Jones, Jason Vincent, Nightwood, Iliana Regan, Elizabeth, Abraham Conlon, Adrienne Lo, Fat Rice, Three Floyds, Nico Osteria, Brindille, Paul Kahan, Carrie Nahabedian, Spiaggia, Sarah Grueneberg, Video

Arts & Culture, Feature Oct 2, 2013
The migration of the hipster

A Chicago history, 1898-present
- By Aimee Levitt
- Tags: Feature, hipsters, Flat Iron Building, Bridgeport, neighborhoods, New York Times, next Seattle, Richard Lloyd, Jeff Huebner, history, Real World, Ed Marszewski, Lumpen Times, Liz Phair, Urge Overkill, Veruca Salt, Smashing Pumpkins, Tom Handley, Joe Judd, Shane Bugbee, Elliot Dicks, gentrification, Clem Jaskot Jr., Phyllis' Musical Inn, bars, Gold Star Bar, Nelson Algren, Wicker Park, HotHouse, Double Door, Pontiac, Subterranean, Flat Iron Building, Myopic Books, Quimby's Bookstore, Autonomous Zone Infoshop, Buys Bee, Earwax Cafe, Urbus Orbis, commercialization, bohemia, brohemia, Sarah Crawford, Fine Arts Building, artists' colonies, coffeehouses, nightclubs, The Little Room, South Loop, artists, tea, Auditorium Hotel, Ralph Clarkson, Henry Blake Fuller, George Ade, Hamlin Garland, Lorado Taft, Jane Addams, Bertha Palmer, Jackson Park, Hyde Park, Midway Studios, Floyd Dell, Evening Post, Evening Post's Friday Literary Review, Paul Durica, Margery Currey, salons, Sherwood Anderson, Edgar Lee Masters, Carl Sandburg, Ben Hecht, Margaret Anderson, The Little Review, Richard Lloyd, Chicago winters, Towertown, Bauhaus, Bauhaus School, River North, Maxwell Bodenheim, them restaurants, Gold Coast House of Correction, Big John's Coal Scuttle, Jake Loeb, Thomas Dyja, Tree Studios, Prohibition, tearooms, Green Mask, Ballyhoo Cafe, drag shows, Dil Pickle Club, Washington Square Park, Newberry Library, Bughouse Square, Jack Jones, Tooker Place, Mae West, Ben Reitman, Chicago Tribune, alcohol, Charles Collins, Mitchell Dawson, Harriet Monroe, Clarence Darrow, Emma Goldman, Theodore Dreiser, Ring Lardner, Edgar Lee Masters, Joseph Weil, Bill Haywood, Jack Johnson, Chicago Literary Times, Michigan Avenue Bridge, douchebags, yuppies, bros, Alfreda Gordon, Chicago Sunday Times, development, beatniks, hippies, New Yorker, Emily Hahn, Slim Brundage, College of Complexes, Piper's Alley, Lincoln Restaurant, Maury's, Cholly Wendorf, Bill Smith, Steve Goodman, John Prine, Bonnie Koloc, Hairy Who, Will Leonard, University of Chicago, Old Town School of Folk Music, Bill Savage, Northwestern University, Frank Ryan, Norman Mailer, Dee Paira, Gavin Morrison, Rainbo Club, Logan Square, Jason Hammel, Logan Beach, Lula Cafe, Amalea Tshilds, Joe Bryl, Longman & Eagle, Reno, Bang Bang Pie, Parsons Chicken & Fish, Cozy Corner, Cole's Bar, Helen's, Two-Way Lounge, Whirlaway Lounge, The Whistler, Scofflaw, Weegee's Lounge, Logan Square Farmers Market, Dill Pickle Co-Op, Cafe Mustache, New Wave Coffee, Abraham Conlon, Adrienne Lo, Matthias Merges, Jared Wentworth, Paul McGee, Maria Jaimes, Fireside Bowl, The Mutiny, John McDermott, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Latinos, buying property, Bridgeport, Pilsen, Jason Vincent, Bruce Finkelman, Thalia Hall, Modern Cooperative, furniture stores, Nightwood, Co-Prosperity Sphere, public transportation, mass transit, Version Fest, Mash-Tun Festival

Blogs, Bleader Sep 27, 2013
Video
Things Nightwood's Jason Vincent hates, and other stuff to read and watch

Morsels from the local food and drink beat
- By Michael Gebert
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Jason Vincent, Food Republic, Jason Kessler, Serious Eats, New City, Food Revolution Chicago, Letherbee Gin, Megan Weinerman, Brett Engel, Video

Blogs, Bleader Apr 5, 2013
Video
Jason Vincent is a Food & Wine best new chef and other food news bites

Russian sausage, hummus law, the return of Logan Square Kitchen, and more
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Butcher & Larder, Rob Levitt, Michael Ruhlman, Alec Mikhaylov, Alef Sausage Co., Bernard's Bar, Waldorf Astoria, hummus, Jason Vincent, Nightwood, Food & Wine, Logan Square Kitchen, Zina Murray, Alinea, Video

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 Oct 27, 2011
Chefapalooza costume benefit for Green City Market

Coming up Sunday at Carnivale: Masquerade del Mercado, a costume fund-raiser for Green City Market
- By Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Green City Market, Masquerade del Mercado, Carnivale, David Dworshak, Jared Van Camp, Dale Levitski, Mark Steuer, Greg Biggers, Jason Vincent, Jeffrey Hedin, Justin White, Patrick Sheerin, Choo Lipsky, Clint Rogers, Sarah Busen

Blogs, Bleader Sep 9, 2011
This week in Food & Drink: A Dick Move, Roots Handmade Pizza, Key Ingredient chufa, and more

In this week's Food & Drink: Cocktail Challenge beef stock, Roots Handmade Pizza, Key Ingredient chufa, more Ukrainian Village spots
- By Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, the Whistler, Paul McGee, Stephen Cole, the Barrelhouse Flat, beef stock, A Dick Move, Sterling Field, Sable Kitchen & Bar, Ukrainian Village, Quad Cities, Roots Handmade Pizza, taco pizza, Key Ingredient, chufa, B.K. Park, Arami, Jason Vincent, Nightwood, Shin Thompson, Bonsoiree, burdock root, Kasia's Deli, Hoosier Mama Pie Shop, Ruxbin Kitchen

Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Sep 8, 2011
Video
Key Ingredient: Chufa

B.K. Park of Arami goes Asian with a very un-Asian ingredient
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Key Ingredient, Chufa nut, tiger nut, horcata, B.K. Park, Arami, sushi, king crab, wasabi, dessert sushi, Shin Thompson, Bonsoiree, Jason Vincent, Nightwood, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 2, 2011
This Week in Food & Drink: Key Ingredient duck tongues, Irving Park's Al Dente, Ethyl's Beer & Wine Dive, and more

In this week's Food & Drink: Key Ingredient duck tongues, Irving Park's Al Dente, Ethyl's Beer & Wine Dive, and more Irving Park restaurants.
- By Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Key Ingredient, duck tongues, Jason Vincent, Nightwood, B.K. Park, Arami, chufa, Al Dente, Irving Park, Javier Perez, Tony Mantuano, Spiaggia, Ethyl's Beer & Wine Dive, Scott Harris, broken glass pie, Sabatino's, Shokran, Smoque

Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Sep 1, 2011
Video
Key Ingredient: Duck tongues

Jason Vincent of Nightwood makes duck tongues less gross
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Key Ingredient, Duck Tongues, Nightwood, Jason Vincent, banh mi, Rob Levitt, The Butcher & Larder, less gross, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 26, 2011
This week in Food & Drink: Key Ingredient Abalone, Roka Akor, Tribute, and more

This week in Food & Drink: Key Ingredient abalone, robata restaurant and lounge Roka Akor, Tribute and other South Loop restaurants.
- By Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Key Ingredient, Rob Levitt, the Butcher & Larder, abalone, bruschetta, Nightwood, Jason Vincent, duck tongues, Roka Akor, Tribute, Brandon Baltzley, Essex Hotel, Lawrence Letrero, South Loop restaurants, Cafecito, Epic Burger

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Jul 16, 2009
Simple yet exquisite seasonal cuisine at Nightwood and Browntrout

Plus: Fianco, an Italian sleeper on Southport
- By Martha Bayne, Mike Sula, and Anne Spiselman
- Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Nightwood, Lula Cafe, Jason Hammel, Amalea Tshilds, Jason Vincent, Kevin Heisner, Matt Eisler, Pilsen, Chicago restaurants, Browntrout, Sean Sanders, Bin 36, green restaurants, Fianco, Matt Troost, maltagliata, Mike Sula, Martha Bayne, Anne Spiselman, blogsherpa, golden trout, borlotti beans, chicken liver pate

Blogs, Bleader May 28, 2009
The booze is flowing at Nightwood

Lula Cafe's new sibling in Pilsen has its liquor license and has expanded its hours.
- By Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, Jason Hammel, Amalea Tshilds, Nightwood, Lula Cafe, Jason Vincent

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Seventeen spots where you could escape the Great Garbage Fire of 2017.

The restaurant anchoring the Ace Hotel is like a satellite for Jason Vincent and Ben Lustbader’s Logan Square mothership.

Also, Trump has reportedly tapped 48-year-old John Lausch as the U.S. attorney for Chicago.

After a break, the former Nightwood chef is doing huge things in a little Logan Square spot.

Jason Vincent, Nightwood

Things that are happening, including a dance night for deviants and an $80 steak special.

This year's James Beard Awards short list gets Chicago pretty well.

A Chicago history, 1898-present

Morsels from the local food and drink beat

Russian sausage, hummus law, the return of Logan Square Kitchen, and more

Thoughts on the first 50 episodes of Key Ingredient

Coming up Sunday at Carnivale: Masquerade del Mercado, a costume fund-raiser for Green City Market

In this week's Food & Drink: Cocktail Challenge beef stock, Roots Handmade Pizza, Key Ingredient chufa, more Ukrainian Village spots

B.K. Park of Arami goes Asian with a very un-Asian ingredient

In this week's Food & Drink: Key Ingredient duck tongues, Irving Park's Al Dente, Ethyl's Beer & Wine Dive, and more Irving Park restaurants.

Jason Vincent of Nightwood makes duck tongues less gross

This week in Food & Drink: Key Ingredient abalone, robata restaurant and lounge Roka Akor, Tribute and other South Loop restaurants.

Plus: Fianco, an Italian sleeper on Southport

Lula Cafe's new sibling in Pilsen has its liquor license and has expanded its hours.

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