With Big Jones stepping up its game, and Garden & Gun arriving any day in the mailbox, it seems like Low Country's the new something this year. And we're one hundred percent fine with that. Boils, shrimp and grits, baked oysters, black-eyed peas? Yup. It's enough to make us...
Vincent's Koffeeshop is back, this time with a slightly smaller menu, but with some new shee. Walking chili, deep-fried oreos, poutine? Yup. We'll be all over that. We showed up last month and found a low-lit, nag champa-smelling joint playing real, actual, not-bullshit,...
According to Tasting Table, GT Fish and Oyster is offering half-off oysters after 10PM every night except Saturday. That's a deal if we've ever heard of one. Oysters ain't cheap, so we'll gladly take 'em for less than two bucks. Even if we have to go to River North to get...
The Trib reports that the Fish Guy is open again. We stopped in a few nights ago and can report that, yes, this is true: Fish Guy's slangin' bay scallops again. The updated joint is a bit sleeker, a bit whiter, and now features a stainless steel bar and bench running the length...
Food and weed, together again! Michael Gebert at Grubstreet posts here about Vincent's foray into weed-friendly events. Now, this is the kind of shee we can get behind. Andersonville's Vincent is morphing into an Amsterdam-style coffee shop Sunday night, the first in a...
If the quality of a restaurant's food is inversely proportional to how crappy it's website is, then the greatest restaurant in the world just opened up. Behold! Tamales Garibay! Now that's a shitty website. Now, we're dubious about tamales. Prepared properly, they can be...
Thinking about starting up a food truck? Don't say Phillip Foss didn't give you fair warning if the thing falls apart Black Star's comeback album. Quoth Foss: "Years back while living the single life on Maui I developed a little gambling problem. I would almost recommend this or...
Next launched its first E-Cookbook yesterday based on the restaurant's opening menu, Paris 1906. They intend to do this every three months, whenever they release a new menu. Sounds like something Gluttons could get into if the app wasn't exclusively sold for Apple products....
Eater Chicago gets a preview of Tony Montuano's new Bar Toma, located in the old Bistro 110 space across from the Water Tower. Their pics don't convey a ton (unless you love plywood and unpainted drywall) but one can see there will be a lot going on here: gelato station,...
If this is all we got, it's definitely a slow news day....
The Chicago Michelin Guide announced it's new Bib Gourmand winners this morning. The seventeen new winners join all of last year's, save for a handful that are no longer around or apparently are not Gourmand-y enough anymore. Among this year's new winners Lao Sze Chuan, Owen...
Raw food joint, Cousin's Incredible Vitality, closed its doors the other day, claiming on its website that it will remain that way unless people step forward and invest in it. A poster on LTHForum notes that people who people who subscribed to Cousin's Live Food Box Program are...
And its balls out, fam. Chef Foss via the Chicagoist: "Though humbling & heart breaking to inform, The Meatyballs Mobile will only occasionally 'pop up' going forward. There are many reasons, but the bottom line is that I can no longer burn the candle at both ends as...
Beer festivals can typically be summed up in several layers of prejudice: hella beards, protruding bellies, overbearing flatulence and the pure fucking geekery over water, malt, yeast and hops. Nevertheless, we dare to say that there is a single festival here in the White City...
We were ready to give Chilam Balam's Chuy Valencia the Permanent Douchebag award when this Top Chef casting video crossed our desk the other day. It opens with him moronically talking about his "haters," rambles into him claiming Chilam Balam "mindfucks" people, and ends with...
Nationwide synchronized toasting isn't just for Irish bars anymore. Legendary Belgian beer importer, Vanberg & Dewulf, celebrates it's 30th anniversary by hosting the Coast to Coast Toast on November 15th at Toast headquarters, The Publican. A six-course prix fixe dinner...
Thursday night's Fall Harvest Cider Dinner at C-House brings together three things we love: Dupont Ciders, food from C-House, and a chance to heckle former Goose Island brewer, Greg Hall, for pissing in a pint glass at Bangers and Lace last spring. Hall is the special guest....
Days after Zagat tabbed Les Nomades as Chicago's top restaurant, chef Chris Nugent announces that he's leaving to open a joint at 2656 W Lawrence, where Rendezvous Cafe sat for a second. Gluttons' Albany Park branch rejoices! We've got Zebda, The Fish Guy, Semiramis, Chicago...
Finally some proof: there is pig's heart in the McRib! Chicago Magazine's Whet Moser runs through the history of McDonald's pressed meat sandwich and finds that it's basically all the nasty swine parts made more palatable for Americans by grinding and pressing. We always...
Got a 110 bucks burning a hole in your Dockers? Does the thought of rubbing elbows with like twenty of Chicago's top chefs get your panties in a bunch? Food & Wine is hosting the 13th Annual Entertaining Showcase on Monday, November 14 at the MCA. (Purchase tix...
