velvet banquettes, the hip-hop music in the background) represent a level of excellence that blows away all the truly serious cooking being done at places like Spring World? The kid may (or may not) be dumb. But are you helping...

pizza and were so excited when he sent it out to us. that with a the squid pasta, creamy phipps ranch beans, and the nettle pizza did us in. we thoroughly enjoyed the service, the atmosphere (which was hopping) and the food more...

great steakhouses (Mortons would be great choice) and, if you like fine microbrews & ales, one of our truly world-class bars (Map Room, Hop Leaf). Spiaggia is a very enjoyable upscale Italian destination. Our upscale “haute...

porcini mushroom. A very simple dish with gamey flavor where the mushrooms actually outshined the partridge. And married perfectly with the wine. I hopped over the cheese and went straight to dessert which was the best I have in...

. At hopping 7 AM, we met the ever dapper, ever hatted Hat Hammond for a rico huarache bandera style and steaming cups of champurado. We left shortly after 8 AM. Note for all those needing to eat and drink late in Chicago:...

, feijoada, Hopping John etc) and here is another example of a dish of beans/rice/meat stew! And what an example! This is real “peasant” cooking: lusty, big-hearted, generous. Make sure to ask for the hot/jerk sauce,...

Thanks. All the nuances of something as “simple” as rice and beans is what I been learning a lot about lately (from Will etc). We’re out to find the ultimate rice and beans dish in Chicago (and I think Will is...

, beautiful local produce, enormous bulk food departments, kinda like health-food stores, but with plenty of regular stuff like candy, pickles, dog biscuits, staples like flour, sugar, oil. Always ready to hop on the latest food...

equally blotto, and obliterate all inhibitions...you’ll want to be ordering a “Sloe Comfortable Screw Against the Wall” or a "Hop Skip and Go Naked"...

our palates, and made us hop back into our cars and drive like the hounds from hell on the scent of game, for the next “tease”...An amazing sense of cooperation among 18 people, with no one bogging down to eat whole...

Christmastime came around and I managed to awaken by 6:30, just when the milkman had made his delivery that included a quart of eggnog. I would drink the entire quart, right from the bottle, then hop on my bike and ride a...

and if you’re willing to walk to the botanic garden and hop on the franklin avenue shuttle, there is also a big range of african places on fulton st. happy final foraging, andy

west on Argyle street itself. Hop back on the red line north to Howard street- this is the boundary between Chicago and Evanston and you have to switch lines here to the purple line (north towards linden). In Evanston if you are...

and smelled great. It was here that we learned about the “coral” on the scallops. After walking through the entire market, we hop on the tube at the Notting Hill gate stop and make our way over to Sloane Street. We have...

OK, besides being sized up as a non-rich person, I have two recurring peeves: 1) NOISE. House, trance—whatever they’re calling disco this week—I don’t want to hear it. Nor do I want to hear screeching,...