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Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Nov 18, 2020
Quarantinis delivered

Here’s where you can get to-go cocktails around Chicago.
- By Jenna Rimensnyder
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, cocktails, bottled cocktails, to-go, takeout, Au Cheval, Pickleback Kit, Beatrix, Cafe Ba-Ba-Reeba, Club Lucky, Daisies, Furious Spoon, Lena Brava, Kanela Breakfast Club, Kumiko, La Luna, Lost Lake, Maplewood Brewery & Distillery, Mi Tocaya Antojeria, Three Dots and a Dash, Virtue

Arts & Culture, Valentine's Day Feb 11, 2020
Drown your sorrows

A Valentine’s Day bar guide based on relationship status
- By Rima Parikh
- Tags: Valentine's Day, bar guide, relationship status, Beauty Bar, Mariano's, Cole's Bar, Berlin, Marz Brewing, Green Mill, The Owl, Three Dots and a Dash, Spyners Pub, Sluggers

Blogs, Bleader Aug 8, 2017
Video
Chicago Public Schools lays off nearly 1,000 employees, including hundreds of teachers, and other news

Also, Walter Payton College Prep was named the nation's top public high school in a new set of rankings.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Chicago Public Schools, Trenton Cornell-Duranleau, Wyndham Lathem, Andrew Warren, Kenneth Wine, San Francisco, Northwestern University, Walter Payton College Prep, Niche, Northside College Prep, Whitney Young Magnet High School, Jones College Prep, Lane Tech, Chicago Police Department, police entrance exam, Rahm Emanuel, Malia Obama, Rumer Willis, Lorde, Killer Mike, Halsey, Ben Zobrist, Three Dots and a Dash, Charlie McKenna, Lillie's Q, Dixie, restaurant closings, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 26, 2015
Farm-to-table Mexican opening in Andersonville, and other events of summer's end

Cantina 1910's restaurant and farm opens in Andersonville, Modern Mexican conference returns to Kendall, get your tiki mug the honest way, and more.
- By Michael Gebert
- Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, Cantina 1910, Diana Davila, Rick Bayless, Parachute, ModMex, Kendall College, WXRT Rockin' Lobster Bash, Windy City BBQ Classic, Three Dots and a Dash

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Mar 12, 2015
What six Chicago bartenders would drink if they were stranded on a desert island

Paul McGee and five other local drink slingers pick a favorite libation—and where in Chicago they like it best.
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Bar Issue 2015, Desert Island Drinks, Jacyara de Oliveira, Sportsman's Club, Caipirinha, La Sirena Clandestina, Bangers & Lace, Folklore, ñ, Paul McGee, Lost Lake, Old-fashioned, The Violet Hour, The Berkshire Room, Billy Sunday, Mighty Slim, The Hopleaf, Metropolitan Dynamo Copper Lager, The Long Room, Map Room, Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bar, Dianna Sanders, The Promontory, The Scorpion Bowl, Three Dots and a Dash, Hala Kahiki, Liz Pearce, The Drifter, Rhum agricole daiquiri, Sable Kitchen & Bar, Duck Inn, Rootstock Wine & Beer Bar, Peter Vestinos, The Betty, Rose'Ocho, The Matchbox, Pops for Champagne

Blogs, Bleader Jan 14, 2015
Will Chicago's tiki renaissance last this time?

Talking with a tiki enthusiast about the latest revival of the midcentury fantasy bar trend
- By Michael Gebert
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Tiki, Three Dots and a Dash, Paul McGee, Lost Lake, Trader Vic's, Rock-a-Tiki, Dion Antic, Tiki Terrace, Hala Kahiki

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

Paul McGee of Three Dots and a Dash
- Tags: Food & Drink, Best of Chicago 2014, best mixologist, Paul McGee, Three Dots and a Dash, Danny Shapiro, Scofflaw, Readers' Poll

Blogs, Bleader Mar 21, 2014
Reader's Agenda Fri 3/21: Our Spring Cocktail Challenge, Lunice, and Sixty Story Animal

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, March 21
- By Taylor Tolbert
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Spring Cocktail Challenge, Paul McGee, Three Dots and a Dash, Mark Brinker, Barrelhouse Flat, Canadian, Lunice, The Mid, Cashmere Cat, Wave Racer, Obey City, Zebo, Beau O'Reilly, Samuel Beckett, Tony Adler

Blogs, Bleader Feb 13, 2014
Happy Crab Rangoon Day, and other upcoming holidays

You're behind for Valentine's Day, but there are still events to save your butt.
- By Michael Gebert
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Three Dots and a Dash, Dusek's Board & Beer, Longman & Eagle, Katharine Anne Confections, Graham Elliot Bistro, The Publican, Three Floyds, Sunday Dinner Club, Half Acre, Red Meat Market, The Chop Shop, Fish Bar, Bites Asian Tapas, Twisted Spoke

Blogs, Bleader Feb 3, 2014
Video
Get to know your Jean Banchet Award winners

How this year's crop of top chefs have performed in Reader features.
- By Michael Gebert
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Jean Banchet, Jean Banchet Awards, Grace, Curtis Duffy, Michael Muser, Bobby Schaffer, Nicholas Romero, Valerie Cao, Embeya, Thai Dang, Acadia, Thomas Raquel, Cafe des Architectes, Leigh Omilinsky, Fat Rice, Abraham Conlon, Three Dots and a Dash, Paul McGee, the Whistler, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 23, 2013
137 tasty things from 2013

I ate it all.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Smalls Smoke Shack, Oon, Izakaya Yume, Sozai Bonzai, Ramen Misoya, Yan Bang Cai, Juno, Ben Roche, J.P. Graziano, Bacolod Chicken Haus, Parson’s Chicken & Fish, Longman & Eagle, La Palapa, Kabocha, Rub’s Backcountry Smokehouse, Brindille, Rainbow Cuisine, Sauce and Bread Kitchen, Piranha Club, Taquito Kitchen, Lazzat, The Berkshire Room, Dave’s Red Hots, Karaoke House Nina, Danny’s Egghead Diner, Three Dots and a Dash, Siena Tavern, Rickshaw Republic, Barrelhouse Flat, Billy Sunday, The Whistler, Milt’s Barbecue for the Perplexed, Drumbar, La Placita de Durango, Sumi Robata Bar, Division Street Russian Baths, The Little Goat Table, Donkey and Stick, Pepper & Salt, The Plant, Ward Eight, Reno, Tio Luis, Mitsuwa, Mott St., Grace, Oiistar, Gather, Dak Korean Chicken, Chengdu Expression, The Dawson, Publican Quality Meats, Michoacanito, Azzurra EnoTavola, Taqueria y Birrieria Morelia, Sing’s Noodle House, Sze Chuan Cuisine, The Chop Shop, Imani’s Original Bean Pie, Dusek’s, Gogi, Honey Butter Fried Chicken, Cremeria La Ordeña, Tanta, Travelle, Sofi, Blackwood BBQ, Slow City Makgeolli, Yoland Cannon’s Mississippi Delta Hot Tamales, Ben’s Bar-Be-Que, West Loop Salumi Barbecue House, Nduja Artisans, La Quercia

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Dec 23, 2013
Our favorite restaurants of 2013

From suburban ramen to west-side barbecue to tiki time in River North
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Tumblr, Characteristically Unimpressed Mike Sula, new restaurants, criticism, Mike Sula, Sam Worley, Mara Shalhoup, Chicago Reader, Matthias Merges, A10, Paul Kahan, Nico Osteria, The Radler, Lincoln Square, Rainbow Cuisine, Wanpen Phosawang, Pramote Rukprueksachart, Spoon Thai, Ramen Misoya, Gene Kato, Mount Prospect, Sumi Robata Bar, River North, Japonais, Gastón Acurio, Tanta, Three Dots and a Dash, Paul McGee, Lettuce Entertain You, bars, restaurants, Dillman's, Brendan Sodikoff, The Berkshire Room, Benjamin Schiller, cocktails, Reno, Katie Wyer, Rickshaw Republic, Homestyle Taste, Chinatown, Bridgeport, Sze Chuan Cuisine, Ben's Bar-Be-Cue, Smalls Smoke Shack, Takito Kitchen, Carnivale, David Dworshak, Ajoomah's Apron, Billy Sunday, Blackwood BBQ, Chop Shop, Dusek's, Gogi, Johnny Casserole, The Little Goat, Milt's Barbecue for the Perplexed, Oon, Parson's Chicken & Fish, Sofi, Ward Eight, Yan Bang Cai, Ahjoomah's Apron, The Chop Shop, Dusek's Board & Beer, Little Goat Diner, Sofi Restaurant, Berkshire Room, dining in 2013

Arts & Culture, New Year's Eve Dec 17, 2013
The Reader's Guide to New Year's Eve 2013

The best places to be when the ball drops
- Tags: New Year's Eve, New Year's Eve 2013, Black Ensemble Theater New Year's Eve Celebration, Black Ensemble Theater Cultural Center, Bootlegger's Ball, Chemically Imbalanced Comedy, The Crystal Gardens at Navy Pier, First Night Evanston, 1st Ward and Chop Shop, Ignite the Night, iO Theater's New Year's Eve, Kiss Kiss Cabaret New Year's Eve Hullabaloo, Mr. Olsen's New Year's Rockin' Neighborhood, New Year's Eve at the DANK Haus, Moulin Rouge, Music Box, New Year's Eve Revolution, Official Playboy New Year's Eve Soiree, Pleasure Principle, Baathhaus, Big Dipper, Crowbar, Death, Dessa, Roky Erickson, Hounds of Baskerville, Alejandro Escovedo & the Sensitive Boys, Girl Group Chicago, Jimmy Eat World, Smoking Popes, Lawrence Arms, Black Joe Lewis, Local H, Motion City Soundtrack, Mucca Pazza, Oozing Wound, Magic Milk, Jimmy Whispers, The Castle, Club Foot, Enclave, Estate Ultra Bar, The Fifty/50, Funky Buddha Lounge, Headquarters Beercade, Howl at the Moon, The Mid, the Palace, Spy Bar, Three Dots and a Dash, The Underground, Vertigo Sky Lounge, Acadia, Ada St., Avec, Big Jones, Boarding House, CH Distillery, Chilam Bilham, Coutnry Barbeque, The Drawing Room, Due Lire, Dusek's, Fork, Homestead, Hot Chocolate, La Sirena Clandestina, Le Colonial, Longman & Eagle, Lula Cafe, Mercadito, Rodan, Senza, SmallBar Dvision, Table, Donkey & Stick, Tesori, Travelle, Trenchermen, Yusho

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Oct 29, 2013
Recommended
Three Dots and a Dash: Morse code for bliss

Paul McGee's tiki bar is an island paradise amid the River North flotsam.
- By Mara Shalhoup
- Tags: Restaurant Review, Three Dots and a Dash, Paul McGee, cocktails, The Whistler, Logan Square, Bub City, lounges, Lettuce Entertain You, River North, experimental bands, DIY art, galleries, dance parties, LGBTQ dance parties, bartenders, tiki bars, bar snacks, tiki cocktails, rum, rye, gin, tequila, genever, Luau Restaurant, Jet Pilot, Poipu Beach Boogie Board, Angostura bitters, lime, cinnamon, grapefruit, alernum, absinthe, rye whiskey, whiskey, Saturn, J. "Popo" Galsini, Aloha, Mexico, modern cocktails, classic cocktails, shrimp, chicken, pineapple, mint, tamarind, bitters, passion fruit, lemon, almond, punches, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Sep 26, 2013
Coming soon: The Reader's Cocktail Challenge, live

At this fall drinks event on October 4, 20 of Chicago finest barkeeps play dealer's choice.
- By Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Booze, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Chicago Reader, Cocktail Challenge, State & Lake, Mike Ryan, Sable, Paul McGee, Three Dots and a Dash, La Sirena Clandestina, Justin Anderson, Nahm Kim, Sunda, Karl Fernandez, Old Town Pour House, Dave Michalowski, Fischman's Liquors & Tap, Danielle Lewis, GT Fish & Oyster, Jessica Tessendorf, Barrelhouse Flat, Mike Sula, Catherine De Orio, Check, Please! theboozehound.com, Todd Appel, Brandon Phillips, the Drawing Room, Vlad Masillion, RM Champagne Salon, Joel Gardner, Lula Cafe

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature Aug 28, 2013
One bourbon, one scotch, and 20 new hipster bars

A forthcoming Logan Square venture from two Violet Hour vets is about to open in a neighborhood that’s looking increasingly like Wicker Park.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Analogue bar, Henry Prendergast, Robert Haynes, Logan Square, Violet Hour, Wicker Park, cocktail lounge, Aviary, Barrelhouse Flat, Sable, The Drawing Room, Bar DeVille, Drumbar, Whistler, Weegee's Lounge, Scofflaw, Longman & Eagle, Billy Sunday, whiskey smash, Paul McGee, Three Dots and a Dash, Bonny's, Helen's Two Way Lounge, Paul Lynn Miller, Radler, Chicago Distilling Company, Land and Sea Dept., Parson's Chicken and Fish, Parts & Labor, Prindiville, West Town, Ukrainian Village, Pulaski Park, Noble Square, Whirlaway Lounge, Maria Jaimes, Rainbo, Danny's, Gold Star, The Charleston, Alfredo Nogueria

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Jan 28, 2013
The business is barbecue at Bub City

A southern-themed River North joint makes a loud, twangy case for itself.
- By Sam Worley
- Tags: Restaurant Reviews, bourbon, Billy Dec, Nashville, prime-time tv, whiskey, women's bathrooms, southern-themed restaurants, Lettuce Entertain You, Doug Psaltis, RPM Italian, Paul McGee, Three Dots and a Dash, River North, Bub City

Blogs, Bleader Sep 7, 2012
Derrick Rose, pizzaiolo, and other food news bites

Toast Charlie Trotter with a vinegar cocktail, and more
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Derrick Rose, Giordano's, pizza, TAC Quick, Andy Aroonrasameruang, ATK (Andy Thai Kitchen), Thai food, Paul McGee, Three Dots and a Dash, Danny Shapiro, Scofflaw, cocktails, Charlie Trotter's, Scot Noorman, Elizabeth, Alinea, Premise

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Here’s where you can get to-go cocktails around Chicago.

A Valentine’s Day bar guide based on relationship status

Also, Walter Payton College Prep was named the nation's top public high school in a new set of rankings.

Cantina 1910's restaurant and farm opens in Andersonville, Modern Mexican conference returns to Kendall, get your tiki mug the honest way, and more.

Paul McGee and five other local drink slingers pick a favorite libation—and where in Chicago they like it best.

Talking with a tiki enthusiast about the latest revival of the midcentury fantasy bar trend

Paul McGee of Three Dots and a Dash

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Friday, March 21

You're behind for Valentine's Day, but there are still events to save your butt.

How this year's crop of top chefs have performed in Reader features.

I ate it all.

From suburban ramen to west-side barbecue to tiki time in River North

The best places to be when the ball drops

Paul McGee's tiki bar is an island paradise amid the River North flotsam.

At this fall drinks event on October 4, 20 of Chicago finest barkeeps play dealer's choice.

A forthcoming Logan Square venture from two Violet Hour vets is about to open in a neighborhood that’s looking increasingly like Wicker Park.

A southern-themed River North joint makes a loud, twangy case for itself.

Toast Charlie Trotter with a vinegar cocktail, and more

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