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Top Spots Off the Beaten Path for Chicago Restaurant Week 1/2015

Restaurants featured by Chicago Tribune restaurant critic Phil Vettel.

Eat. Drink. Do 1/2015

The Irving Park restaurant is celebrating its birthday through Jan. 23 by offering a special Third Tyme’s A Charm cocktail ($3) mixed with Cocchi Americano wine, ginger liqueur, housemade bitters, thyme, fresno chili peppers and soda. 5-10 p.m. — Red Eye

The title for best burger is a heavily contested one. Contenders range from the lightweight griddled patty to heavyweight grass-feed beef. Whether adorned in bacon jam or tucked between pretzel buns, which burger has the right stuff to rise to the top? We surveyed the city to crown a winner. #1 Lockdown Bar & Grill […]

Rahm’s Choice – Michigan Avenue 12/2013

When it comes to healthy eating, fitness-minded Mayor Rahm Emanuel digs in at these restaurants all over the city By J.P. Anderson A noted exercise enthusiast, Mayor Emanuel has a morning routine that matches his demanding civic duties for intensity, from swimming a mile and running two miles three times weekly to biking 20 miles […]

The 18 Best Brunches In Chicago – Chicagoist 10/23/2013

Chicagoans take many things seriously: pizza; the Bears; hot dogs. We’re also serious about brunch here in the City of Big Shoulders and Wide Waistlines. Which restaurants have brunches that rise above the rest? We’ve chosen 18 that we feel set the standard. Debate and discuss, please. Flo I love a Latin influenced breakfast, and […]

Michael Dean Reynolds Is in Love With His Menu at Bread & Wine, Chicago Magazine 5/28/2013

The Gage and Leopold alumnus, the new chef at the Irving Park spot, will have a new menu in place by the end of June. By Penny Pollack and Graham Meyer Chef Michael Dean Reynolds has taken over the kitchen at Bread & Wine, where a new menu will add bar snacks and augment fish […]

Phil Vettell: Two Stars for Bread & Wine – Chicago Tribune 5/9/2013

Daring gambles: Bread & Wine’s chef cooks with heart, more To appreciate Bread & Wine, the 16-month-old restaurant in the Irving Park neighborhood, it helps to be less literal and more observant. For instance, you might be surprised, as I was initially, to discover that the kitchen doesn’t set out much bread. No bread basket, […]

18 Great Burgers from Non-Burger Restaurants – Time Out Chicago 3/21/2013

18 great burgers The best burgers at non-burger restaurants. By Time Out editors NO. 1 BURGER Acadia burger at Acadia With three cuts of beef (chuck as the base, brisket for juiciness, Wagyu scraps for fat), two types of cheese (Gruyère, Mornay sauce) and a bottomless reserve of umami (bacon-onion jam, housemade pickles), it’s clear […]

Lisa Fosler Kelly, Jennifer Wisniewski, and Curtis Gamble Talk About Bread & Wine, Eater Chicago 2/4/2013

Welcome to One Year In, a feature in which Eater sits down for a chat with the chefs and owners of restaurants celebrating their one year anniversary. by Daniel Gerzina It’s been quite a first year for Bread & Wine. Opening last January in vacant laundromat (Washing Well) that they termed a “dilapidated building”, in […]

Take Cukes to the Next Level – Chicago Sun-Times 10/16/2012

By Curtis Gamble Twice a week, I go to the Green City Market and witness the explosion of colors that late summer and early fall bring, stacked neatly in pint containers and wax-covered produce boxes. Heirloom vegetables tower proudly over the other produce. And usually very close to the striped, colored heirloom tomatoes that seem […]

Four family-friendly brunch spots – Time Out Chicago: Kids 9/18/2012

We check out Bread & Wine, Tavernita, Batter and Berries and Bar Toma. By TOC Kids staff 1. Tavernita “Is this going to be one of those fancy brunches, or can we get bacon and eggs here?” my oldest son groans while being “dragged” to Sunday brunch on the Tavernita patio. But soon, he starts […]

Chicago’s Meal-Market Hybrids – New York Times 8/30/2012

By Bonnie Tsui Chicago’s culinary scene has in the last year and a half been enlivened by big-name chefs: Grant Achatz, Jean-Georges Vongerichten and Michael Shrader have all opened restaurants in that time. But you don’t have to make a reservation to sample the best in local cuisine. Lately, a number of hybrid restaurant-specialty markets […]

Brunch reviews of Bread & Wine, Nellcôte and Yusho | Boldfaced Brunch – Time Out Chicago 6/14/2012

Pasta for brunch—that’s a thing now. By Laura Baginski, Julia Kramer and David Tamarkin Eggs and bacon: These are brunch things. Pancakes and French toast: ditto. Doughnuts, muffins: obvs. Steak, ricotta, pork belly—crossover dishes. Just like pasta. Yeah, pasta. Have you seen how much gnocchi is on brunch menus lately? We’ve seen some form of […]

Ladies’ night out – Time Out Chicago 7/20/2012

Dining in trendy new restaurants as female culture. By Julia Kramer Jen Kouba’s New Year’s resolution for 2011 was to eat at more new restaurants. “I ate at, like, 70,” the 27-year-old event planner says. “It was awesome,” Kouba’s friend Darcy Horath, a 28-year-old marketer, chimes in. This year has had a different agenda for […]