May 27th, 1940 was a day of impossibly vivid colors at Dunkirk. The cool azure of the sky above contrasting grotesquely with the shock red blood of the soldiers who battled below it. King Leopold III, without the consult of his advisors, his people, or the prime minister of...
There are just some days you feel like stuffing the shit out of your face and Sun Wah provides such a haven, where the Peking duck basically rapes your face, but leaves you wanting more. Having these on display is equivalent to any red light district in the world. ...
The phrase ‘underground dinner club’ conjures images of smoke-filled gated mansions you need a password to access. A masked string quartet plays chamber music as a fiendishly grinning, impeccably dressed, crowd is served a Cornish game hen stuffed inside of a duck stuffed...
Shortly after hearing that Top Chef: Chicago winner Stephanie Izard’s new joint, the highly anticipated Girl and the Goat, had opened, I rushed to get my reservation and still waited about three weeks for an 8 PM spot. The hype machine in Chicago dining spools up mighty...
Growing up, if someone had had the chutzpa to tell me I'd one day live within a 2 mile radius of not one, not two, but TWO gourmet hot dog restaurants, I'd have called him a liar and nut-punched him. Who gives little kids unobtainable dreams like that? Now, us north-siders...
I can definitively say three things about Chef Laurent Gras after dropping the GNP of a depressed Caribbean country at l2o: he has what approaches a pathologically unhealthy fascination with emulsions, he could convince me to be a pescetarian if it didn't sound so gay and,...
I don't often get too excited about burgers these days but when I heard what they were serving up at Kuma's Corner my heart began to race. I heard story about the heart stopping burgers at this discrete metal bar I got excited...like a little kid on Christmas morning. Could...
