Chef Abu Hani is back in the kitchen at Sheeba Mandi House

Chicago Reader (Food & Drink) 11/20 12:00A Mike Sula

Albany Park has a new Yemeni restaurant from a veteran Yemeni restaurateur. Abu Hani opened his first restaurant in 2000, when he was an ambitious 17-year-old student at Theodore Roosevelt High...

Rolling Meadows’ Umacamon Japanese Kitchen upholds the suburban izakaya tradition

Chicago Reader (Food & Drink) 11/14 8:30A Mike Sula

And capably covers all the bases, with sushi, ample comfort foods, and uncommon specialties from the island of Kyushu. Most people in Chicago don't consider Japanese food in regional terms, but when...

Travel the Maggi galaxy with Antoni Miralda

Chicago Reader (Food & Drink) 11/7 10:10A Mike Sula

The Spanish food artist has a vast collection of Maggibilia. Condiment hoarding disorder is real.…

Best of Chicago 2019: Cannabis

Chicago Reader (Food & Drink) 11/6 6:00A

Best of Chicago 2019: Food & Drink

Chicago Reader (Food & Drink) 11/6 6:00A

Staff Pick: Best budtender

Chicago Reader (Food & Drink) 11/6 6:00A Jamie Ludwig

Lorena Cupcake Lorena Cupcake is an arts and culture writer, social media expert, and—­according to the Reader's Best of Chicago poll—one of the city's top budtenders. Originally from California,...

Staff Pick: Best Greek Restaurant

Chicago Reader (Food & Drink) 11/6 6:00A Mike Sula

Psistaria Greek Taverna This year marks the 27th in a row I've contributed, in one form or another, to an alternative weekly's Best of issue. Most years, the reward for engaging in the tedious process...

Staff Pick: Third runner-up, best pizza

Chicago Reader (Food & Drink) 11/6 6:00A Jamie Ludwig

Leor Galil Among the contenders for the title "Best pizza" this year, you might have been surprised to see the name of Reader staff writer Leor Galil. How does a music writer become a pizza, you...

Phillip Foss in El

Chicago Reader (Food & Drink) 10/31 12:00A Mike Sula

The restless innovator and Michelin-starred chef bares his soul in a new graphic novel. Phillip Foss has never had much of an internal censor. A gentler way of putting it is that he's always worn his...

Eat antique beef at Publican Quality Meats

Chicago Reader (Food & Drink) 10/25 9:45A Mike Sula

One seven-year old cow. Six chefs. Six dishes. "Like everything in life, fat needs time to get better."…

Dabbing for beginners

Chicago Reader (Food & Drink) 10/24 12:00A Mike Sula

High-potency cannabis concentrates needn't be scary once you know your way around them. Richard Park's budtenders go through a one-year training program before they're allowed to talk, unmonitored, to...

If it all goes south, Joe Donut will be here for you

Chicago Reader (Food & Drink) 10/17 12:00A Mike Sula

Tricked-out dunkers and savory breakfasts from the North Shore spell comfort on the cheap. Who's going to notice a breakfast biscuit next to a display case filled with Fruity Pebbles doughnuts,...

In Bertha Garcia’s hands the elusive chorizo verde is a symphonic sausage

Chicago Reader (Food & Drink) 10/10 7:25A Mike Sula

Green chorizo is now on the menu at Xocome Antojeria. Chorizo verde in Chicago has been one of my white—er, green whales for years now. The vivid emerald-green links of this Toluca specialty hang all...

Joe Guzzo is sweet on complexity, not so much on sugar

Chicago Reader (Food & Drink) 10/10 6:30A Mike Sula

Marz Community Brewing's nonalcoholic drinks are just as wild as its beers. Last week a latch popped on the main mash tun at Marz Community Brewing, sending water, wheat, and oats cascading all over...

Cooking for Good Times is Paul Kahan's last cookbook

Chicago Reader (Food & Drink) 10/8 12:10P Mike Sula

It's a party at Paul's. That's what he told me anyway, a few months ago when we talked about his second and presumably last cookbook Cooking for Good Times, which hits the market Tuesday in all its...