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This week, I am your official Internet media whore, friends. On the heels of yesterday's debut of my Huffington Post Chicago byline, beginning today you can also find my words in Drive-Thru, the foodie section of Chicago's venerable Gapers Block news and features site.
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As I happily Twittered, I had lunch yesterday at Eleven City Diner, the two-year-old nouveau-Jewish deli in he South Loop. This followed an impromptu dinner last week, when I needed a long walk to work off the stress of my blog migration project and unintendedly meandered to 11th and Wabash. No matt
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Unlike my NYC hometown, Chicago doesn't have any Portuguese restaurants. And, no, all those Brazilian steakhouses just don't count. So what to do when you're in the mood for Portugal's incredible Alentejan garlic-cilantro soup in the Windy City? Easy. I make it myself.
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My boyfriend, Chris, thinks I'll go anywhere to eat a good meal, or even a bad one. Dating a chef, I usually don't have far to trek. A couple of weekends ago, however, was a different story. I knew it was supposed to be a day of travel, but neither I nor my stomach knew what we were in for.
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My last Taste of Chicago was definitely the best. Protest though I did last year about Chicagoans' proclivity to attend the Taste year after year although everyone rants how much it stinks, this being my sunset summer in Chicago, I decided to take one final opportunity to eat lunch over a garbage ca
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Most mere American mortals usually hate the stuff. But if you love hot, spicy, edgy food as much as I do, a big bowl of fermented, heavily spiced cabbage boiled up with onions, pork belly, and Korean beef powder, garnished with medium tofu and served with a bowl of scallion-covered rice can be a def
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Oasis Cafe may not be in the Wabash Jewelers Mall anymore, but Suleiman Ahmed still makes the best--and cheapest--falafel in the Loop. I said so last month here on Carless. And I'm happy to say so again, in this week's issue of Time Out Chicago.
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Suleiman Ahmed is the proud owner of the Chicago Loop's popular Oasis Cafe, the middle-eastern falafel shop that until June had been tucked oddly into the back of Wabash Avenue's Jewelers Mall for 17 years. Depsite what the little yellow sign may say outside, it's not coming back, at least not to th
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As if the death of Marshall Field's weren't enough, trouble is brewing yet again between another home-grown Chicago icon and a national interloper. If you frequent the South Loop, get ready for a fried chicken smackdown. Because soon to join the venerable Harold's Chicken Shack #62 on the same South
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Yesterday, the Macy's on State Street signage troubles that I uncovered weren't the only public-relations blunder dogging the Cincinnati-based department store giant, Federated. Full-court press also went to the South Loop's Eleven City Diner for daring to serve a sandwich named after the defunct Ma
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There's no sweeter music to my ears than the woosh of 100 collapsing vendor tents, coming down today in Grant Park after the conclusion of another year's Taste of Chicago, the Second City's annual lakeside food extravaganza. Last week, I asked my native-Chicago friend, Rozella, if she wanted to go t
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According to a personal email from Intelligentsia CEO Doug Zell received this morning, Intelligentsia has decided to compromise on the weekday evening hours of its Randolph Street store and remain open, beginning next Monday, until 8 p.m. for the benefit of its growing residential customer base. Hur