Food
New Restaurants Coming to the Chicago Area in Summer 2026
The days have once again begun their inexorable shortening, but it's a long time before those summer evenings perfect for a patio, cocktail, or sweet treat disappear.
The days have once again begun their inexorable shortening, but it's a long time before those summer evenings perfect for a patio, cocktail, or sweet treat disappear.
Han Cha and Yunomi are much more than museum cafes, even though they are surrounded by art in the Stony Island Arts Bank.
When a student is found dead while preparing for a high-stakes quiz, the detectives take part in their own trivia game to try to trick a confession out of someone.
Two seemingly natural deaths in the same hall while someone played organ suggest the music might have something to do with the deaths.
Spices are integral to Indian cooking, whether roasted whole and added straight to a dish or in the form of a blend of various spices such as garam masala. Curried chickpeas make great use of blends.
"It’s easy to focus on all the bad s--t, right?" says Won Kim, the chef behind the Bridgeport counter-service restaurant. "But you don’t survive ten years without a community behind you.”
Jonathan Zaragoza opened his family's Birrieria Zaragoza at 18 and has since garnered a social media following for regional salsa recipes and cooking alongside professional athletes.
“The most important thing is going to be providing workspace and job training for people with disabilities, so that we can change the way cafes are,” says a founder of La Casita Verde.
Edmond wraps up his yearslong campaign of vengeance, embarrassing and ruining both Danglars and Villefort.
It's a time of ending as Sister Monica Joan prepares for death, the maternity clinic closes, Beryl decides what to do with her life, and the other midwives look to new beginnings.
Anupy Singla's family is from Punjab. She shares a deeply spiced stovetop chicken curry from that northern Indian state that demonstrates what "curry" actually is.
Two more seasons of The Forsytes are on the way, with the third following the family on vacation in the French Riviera.
The restaurateur behind Sunda New Asian and formerly Rockit Bar & Grill learns family recipes in Food Roots – and grapples with difficult family relationships.
A new recording by the esteemed string quartet celebrates the gospel singer's friendships with Martin Luther King, Jr. and Studs Terkel, whose interviews with her are included in a piece by Chicago composer Stacy Garrop.
Community-supported agriculture, or CSAs, offers allows customers to get balanced foods directly from farmers. Here's a guide to CSAs serving the Chicago area.
In the new book Fire and Clay, Brick of Chicago's Will Quam tracks the history of architecture through the endlessly varied brick.
From bitter Italian greens like tardivo and puntarelle to specific varieties of beets and spinach, chefs collaborate with farmers to introduce new products to the Midwest.
As Edmond's plans to ruin Fernand come to fruition, Albert tries to defend his father's honor. Secrets are revealed.
The Mullucks are back, this time with Rhoda needing emergency surgery and thus Bernie needing help at home. Meanwhile, Rosalind and Cyril get engaged.