Food and Drink
Good lord, sometimes I should just eat in. The latest from my Gapers Block: Drive-Thru foodie byline? Two downtown establishments: one I used to love, one I doubt I ever will, but both giving me agida in the same week.
Backstory
Pizzeria Due saved my sanity when I first decamped Atlantic shores for Lake Michigan ones in the early 2000s. That's why my recent trips to the less-touristed, cheaper Lou Malnati's have left me riddled with guilt.
Food and Drink
If it's any day ending in '-day', you know I'm still eating. This weekend on my Gaper's Block Drive-Thru foodie byline, the love is as crispy as it is juicy. Browse through to Chicago's favorite, home-grown group blog and read all about it...
Food and Drink
This week I paid visits to a couple of my regular joints: Lincoln Square's authentic Cincinnati chili parlor, Cinner's; and the north Loop's chainy but yummy Asian bun eatery, Wow Bao. And as usual, I'm telling you all about it on my Gapers Block:Drive-Thru foodie byline.
Food and Drink
My favorite local restaurant in my South River North/North Loop 'hood is not one I would recommend to my worst enemy. Well, depending on the day you ask me my opinion on the place. Because while Emerald Loop's Irish pub kitchen shines from Monday through Friday, it's as if the back-of-house is taken
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I invite the foodies among you to head over to Drive-Thru, the Gapers Block food and drink channel, to check out what I and my fellow professional eaters have been up to lately. Think: kimchi; gelato; and hot wings. Not all at once. Well, maybe...
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Last week, Take Me Out co-owner Karen Lim emailed to to report the eatery will be back in business starting Saturday, October 18th. She'll be celebrating by giving out free Little Hotties, and that's reason enough to show up in my book.
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Lately, my life has been a string of unexpected occurrences that have taken even this life-is-flux loving Buddhist by surprise. Some haven't been so pleasant (more on those later). Two of the happiest have been my rekindled friendship with pastry-chef Chris, and my discovery, through said fellow foo
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When I told the Gapers Block editors last week that I wanted to take them up on their last-minute offer to interview Food Network celebrity chef Sandra Lee, creator of the Semi-Homemade television and cookbook empire, their response was instructive: 'You're not going to shred her, are you?'
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Today on Gapers Block, read my comparison of the two thin-crust pizzas in New York Pizza Slice Smackdown, and my attempt to like something–anything–of the merely Fair Fare at Francesca's Forno. Note to Santullo's: places like Francesca's and New York Slices are why I love you so.
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Your mileage may vary, but my favorite Windy City grilled cheese just got extra buttery. It's at my equally favorite neighborhood brunch joint, downtown Chicago's Orange on Harrison. Read all about the sandwich of my dreams in my review of Orange on Harrsion today on Gapers Block.
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Last weekend, foodie partner-in-crime Jamie and I headed to Andersonville's Icosium Kafe crepe joint to flee the downtown Air & Water Show crowds. And you can head over to Gapers Block today to read my review of the place.