there will know the tops.

-pickle, top buns – I hate ketchup)...then eat the “Big Whitey” with gusto. You won’t put on an ounce...guaranteed.

nuts on top (for a contrast in texture). my favorite snack lately is roasting green beans — like candy. just lightly toss some green beans in olive oil (only takes a tiny amount for a light coating), then place in a single...

Alsatian establishment. I hope this list is far from complete: Bulgarian – Mario’s, Chicago Czech – Klas, Cicero Slovakian – Happy Noode, Chicago Chinese/Cantonese – Happy Chef, Chicago Chinese/Szechuan...

I am glad LSR was good to you. Does it merit the raves by top chefs and food critics? It is reputedly some of the best Mexican Food in California, and in the country; did you find it so? I found it to be OK, far below its...

to Piperade, Fringale and Boulevard. Noththing wrong with that,eh? I even recently found myself thinking wistfully about the French Laundry ... ah to see Chef Keller crossing the road with his basket of fresh picked micro...

If not, you can order it from ChefShop.com Link: http://store.yahoo.com/chefshop/fennelpollen.html

chefs I know swear by Heatter.

. B’way is the top - profit store in the chain...looking at their prices I certainly believe it. I do buy liquor at the Osco’s on Halsted, Clark & Barry. The place is always empty and the cashiers have always given me...

and Michael Smith won the James Beard Midwest Chef of the Year Award a few years back when they were the exec chefs at KC’s prestigious American Restaurant. They now own their own place, 40 Sardines, out in the 'burbs. They...

One thing to note about Thai food, at least as cooked in Thai homes that I have been in and as practiced at thousands of street stalls all over Thailand, is that it is not like Japanese or French food where it is assumed that the...

, Brick’s. A thin style in that vein, or like Medici in Hyde Park. A pleasantly bready thin crust pizza. Tomato and green olive toppings were good. Cafe Selmarie—this came up a few threads ago, and while I always want...

and chefs' toques, to the neatly stacked newspapers by the cash register; and the thick lean bacon to the fresh bananas and heavy cream and strong freshly brewed Farmer Bros. coffee, it’s pretty darn good.

being poured by the server, and refill my own glass, than have this person constantly revisit our table just to top off glasses, usually at the wrong time. The errors are legion: wasteful pouring into unappreciative companions'...

's a renovated old sears building, top floor is Smithsonian offices, first floor is full of little Japanese and Korean shops, lunch counters and restaurants. Great cheap sushi at Kotobukiya(sp?) you can gorge on sushi for $10,...