Restaurants

There are always new restaurants opening in Chicago, but it’s noteworthy to have two open in the same building at the same time – and to have two popular South Side spots expand across this segregated city to the North Side. 

Jennifer Kim's experiences dining, cooking, and shopping in Chicago’s diverse neighborhoods add layers of interest to the menu at Proxi, as is evident from Kim's generous and multifarious Chicago recommendations.

Ever look at a restaurant menu and wonder, “How do they get all those gorgeous, ripe heirloom tomatoes every week?” One answer lies in businesses like Chicago’s Midwest Foods.

How and why did Americans stop eating beef from dairy cows? It has something to do with Chicago's meatpackers and stockyards.

But biscuits aren't limited to the first meal of the day, as Hoosier Mama's Paula Haney makes clear. Plus, their history helps tell the "whole story of the country."

Chicago has been home to one of the largest diasporas of Czech citizens outside of central Europe, but there aren't many Czech restaurants left here. What's the cuisine like?

The old-school bakery and soda fountain Spinning J is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a podcast going behind the scenes of the struggles independent restaurants face.

Petite Edith is the third new restaurant opened by husband-and-wife team Jenner Tomaska and Katrina Bravo in the past year. It's a lower price-point successor to their artistic tasting menu spot Esmé.

The legendary and influential Alinea went from three stars to two, but another restaurant was promoted to two stars while a new restaurant featured in a new show about Michelin won its first.

Eagleman and Ozzie Guillén both appear in new commercials for Mr. Submarine that draw on a history of hokey spots, in honor of 50 years in business.

Private chef Emani Roberts is opening Brûlée, a Southern brunch restaurant blocks from McCormick Center, to serve South Loop residents and convention-goers. 

As the cult favorite inside the hospitality industry podcast "Joiners" soldiers on, its two hosts are considering whether to try to keep expanding – or just keep doing what they're doing.

Zeitlin's Delicatessen and Rosca are opening brick-and-mortar locations on back-to-back days in November, the latest in Chicago's bagel boom. 

Chicago restaurateurs say business is down and workers are afraid to come in as ICE and CBP conduct raids across the city. "We're feeling it," said one. 

A new short documentary shows Kruszewski's charming and relaxed approach to tending an orchard of Asian pears, persimmons, and pawpaws, a fruit native to North America that has similarities to tropical fruit.