LAST SUPPER: WON KIM
dThe Question: You have one meal left in your life. You can eat whatever your want. What’s your last supper? The Eater: Chef Won Kim (aka Stephen Kim, aka Revise…
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As you cross E 47th on South MLK, the words “food blight” become a stark minimization. Put simply, within this corridor, its Subway or fucking starve. This gastronomic dynamic is…
Up And Go Fat Belly!
Ay yo, that peanut butter jelly be the jam / I wash it down with almond milk, Almond Breeze or Silk, whatever brand Trader Joe’s they cost the least /…
Cha Gordon
There is a time and place for a short stack and a couple strips of bacon at your neighborhood spot. This aint fucking it. This is Fat Rice. And if…
Apple Cider Donuts. Treat Yo’self!
Forecast for the weekend: sixty degrees and sunny in late October. Now that’s some apple picking weather, son. No, I did not go all Chauncey on y’all while I was…
Smoke Wit Me, Calumet
Oh beautiful land that connects the Dan Ryan Expressway and the Indiana Tollway right under the illustrious Chicago Skyway. You nestle the pristine waters of the Calumet River in your…
Shortrib Naanwich @ Gaztro Wagon
From the Board of Trade to the Western Blue Line, Ravenswood down to River North…Matt Maroni’s ‘curbside solution for your hunger’ is hotter than Silly Bandz and Kanye’s bitch ass…
Last Night A Pig Roast Saved My Life
How do you officially kick summer off? If you’ve ever been to a Eastern European pig roast, you don’t need to ask that question. Ask chef Dan Kordula how long…
We Win, Bitches!
For reals, thanks for showing your support, Chicago. Now go forth and spread the gluttonous word!
It’s the Bee’s Knees at Dee’s
Next muhfucka who asks me if I decided to open my own soul food restaurant is gonna get to know my dull blade called Sammy Three Cuts. For serious, go…
The Deliciousness VII
Basking under unseasonably pleasant March temps, a thick contingent developed on a creaky front porch deep within Albany Park. A couple heads pulled out American Spirits and resh as we…
Pork Meatballs at Gilt Bar
Gilt Bar is real talk, peoples. Realer than a 3rd mortgage. Realer than a drunk krew of community organizers. Realer than ole boy who hacked into Baracks and B. Spears…
Revolutionary Brewing
Trotsky, Guevara, Levski, Mao Zedong, Spartacus. If the first few weeks of business at Revolution Brewing are any indication of what is to be expected in the years to come,…
Shortrib Sandwich at Lockwood
Palmer House? The fuck? No, this post aint about the Twentieth Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse or that time your boss told you she’d pick up…
Booze Star
Whiskey. Tacos. Tostadas. Shakes. In Chicago, Big Star is now as synonymous to Tex-Mex as Dulcelandia is to Chicano Candy-land. Paul Kahan (Blackbird, Publican, Avec + dickEverest of James Beard…
Huaraches con Flavorfuckery @ Dona Chio
Pregunta: What the eff is huarache, joe? Respuesta: Masa as fresh as Rappers Delight, stuck into a grimy ass tortilla press, all jammed together by frijoles fritos, cousin. You could…
Cochinita Pilil Torta at Xoco
Back on Top Chef Masters, Rick Bayless was hurdling chefs like Carl Lewis at the Pan American Games. Riding his personal fame train, Ricky B launched Xoco a few weeks…
Rainbow Cone at Original Rainbow Cone, Inc
Now girls step up to this One simple lick, and its ova Miss Sold to nice dreamers, high as the price seem Girlfriend, youve been scooped like ice cream Competition,…
Strawberry French Toast @ Over Easy
So you enjoy a savory breakfast with eggs sunny side up, ham on the bone and some biscuits and gravy. I get it. But how could you deny the sweetness…
Goober Burger and Fries
Yall remember Goober’s PB&J? Well, food combinations just veered further left with the introduction of the Goober Burger which was flicked by BrainHagy on a recent vaca to the ‘Sota.…