Food and Drink
Our guide to having the best time at the annual extravaganza of meat and music, this year featuring headliners Kane Brown and Jon Pardi.
Chicago chef Toni Roberts will compete later this year for a spot on the national team for the ultimate test of culinary skill in Lyon, France, in 2027.
From corner bodegas to prix fixe, these top Chicago spots offer a modern take on the tangy sweet and richly satisfying island cuisine.
Filipino cooking, which masterfully tightrope-walks sweet, savory and sour, is getting its due here. Credit belongs in part to an incubator for aspiring chefs.
Donald Trump’s trade policies and 51st-state talk don’t play well at Canada birthday gathering at an Andersonville pub, where only two Canadian craft beers were being served, down from 11 last year. “They’ve been great neighbors for decades, and I hope it stays that way.”
After 18 years in Wicker Park, the innovative cocktail bar shutters following damage to its building. “Despite extensive efforts and negotiations, we were regretfully unable to reach a resolution with our landlord,” the leadership team stated.
Named the best pizza in the country at one point, the husband-and-wife-run shop went viral before viral was even a thing, then closed. Now it’s back.
Conocida por sus cupcakes puertorriqueños empapados, la panadería está siendo nuevamente aceptada por la comunidad después de lanzar un menú de sándwiches que presenta pan “sobao”.
Beyond Hunger is ensuring that older adults and home-bound residents in need on the West Side are getting fresh fruit and vegetables to their doors in an area long considered a food desert and where crime is a persistent concern.
This pasta dish is a golden, fresh combination of salty cured pork, fragrant saffron, summery zucchini and short, curly pasta.
The key to this dish’s flavor and, well, greenness is an unbashful volume of fresh herbs — 2 cups, to be exact in this recipe. The suggested list of herbs is lengthy yet flexible, open to whim and availability.
Best known for soaked Puerto Rican-style cupcakes, the bakery is being newly embraced by the community after launching a sandwich menu that features pan sobao, or “kneaded bread.”
Readers share their tips for some under-the-radar restaurants that include Polish, Moroccan, Venezuelan, Thai cuisine and more.
Gale Street Inn, a Jefferson Park institution, closes for good without any advance word to customers
“I’m tired, it’s hard,” owner George Karzas said after suddenly shutting down the Northwest Side restaurant that’s been around since 1963. He said staffing was a big factor.
The beloved Chicago restaurant claims Weber’s new pellet smoker called “Weber Smoque” will confuse customers.
The ingredients can be tweaked to your taste. For instance, feel free to substitute wild rice or bulgur for the quinoa. Or add more tender greens to the mix, such as arugula or spinach.
This quick meal in a skillet — seasoned with curry powder and dried thyme — features chicken thighs and fresh green beans.
Marinated overnight, the spareribs are first baked in the oven, cooked fairly low and fairly slow. Then you baste them with a super flavorful barbecue sauce, and you can finish them in the oven or on the grill.
