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Dining Out: News and notes on Chicago’s restaurant scene

Chicago Sun-Times - Chicago Food and Restaurants 3/21 2:39P Miriam Di Nunzio
Southwestern-Lebanese fare including the Pretty Salad (center) with romaine, onions, carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, feta, fried pita and pomegranate, will be featured at Evette’s All Day, Max Kilibarda Here’s some of what’s happening in Chicago’s...

Chicago lives forever changed by COVID-19: These are some of their stories

Chicago Sun-Times - Chicago Food and Restaurants 3/17 8:22A Stefano Esposito
Jessica Tapper with her children Matteo Agostini and Violet Agostini at their Oak Lawn home. Violet holds a photo of father Matthew “Turk” Agostini, who died of COVID-19 complications in November 2020, weeks before Matteo was born. Tyler Pasciak...

Citrus smoothies abound at Chicago juice bars

Chicago Sun-Times - Chicago Food and Restaurants 3/14 1:14P Amy Bizzarri | For the Sun-Times
The Mint Matcha Smoothie (front row, far right) is among the citrus-fruit varieties offered at Hi-Vibe Super Juicery. Provided Here’s a way to add a burst of sunshine into your life — and diet —during the chilly, rainy month of March: Enjoy the...

Come Hungry for a Feast at Barrio

Chicago Food Magazine 3/14 10:39A Emily Larsen
Barrio is one of those places that I had walked past dozens of times but was always on my way to somewhere else and never went in. A few weeks ago, I finally had the pleasure of stepping through the...

Dining Out in Chicago: News and notes on the restaurant scene

Chicago Sun-Times - Chicago Food and Restaurants 3/14 6:35A Denise I. O’Neal
Fresh oysters and other assorted shellfish are featured in the Côte D’Azur Spring Seafood Festival at La Voûte. Courtesy of La Voute La Voûte, 2034 Ridge Rd., Homewood, located in the La Banque Hotel, brings flavors of the French Riviera to the...

Grubhub CEO Adam DeWitt to leave firm as owner searches for a buyer

Chicago Sun-Times - Chicago Food and Restaurants 3/13 1:40P David Roeder
Adam DeWitt Provided Chicago-based Grubhub, the food delivery platform whose owner has it up for sale, said Monday that its chief executive is stepping down. The company said Adam DeWitt, who became CEO two years ago and has spent 11 years in top...

Buffalo Wild Wings sued over its ‘boneless’ wings claim

Chicago Sun-Times - Chicago Food and Restaurants 3/13 11:57A Stefano Esposito
A Chicago man has sued Buffalo Wild Wings, accusing the chain of “clear-cut false advertising.” Buffalo Wild Wings No bones about it, Aimen Halim is very unhappy with Buffalo Wild Wings. He’s so upset that the Chicago man recently filed a...

Funeral for Mr. Beef founder Joe Zucchero, inspiration for ‘The Bear’

Chicago Sun-Times - Chicago Food and Restaurants 3/11 11:36A Zack Miller
Christopher Zucchero leads the pallbearers Saturday carrying the casket of his father, Joe ‘Mr. Beef’ Zucchero at the Cooney Funeral Home in Park Ridge. Kevin Tanaka, Sun-Times Media As his health worsened, Joe Zucchero told his family he had one...

Guinness taproom’s first Chicago pour will take a little longer

Chicago Sun-Times - Chicago Food and Restaurants 3/10 10:27A David Roeder
Guinness plans to open its second U.S. taproom in the former Pennsylvania Railroad Terminal Building, 901 W. Kinzie St. Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Perhaps the worst thing Chicago beer drinkers can say about Guinness is that the brand will miss a...

News and notes on Chicago’s restaurant scene

Chicago Sun-Times - Chicago Food and Restaurants 3/8 3:21A Miriam Di Nunzio
Check out the “traditional bar food with an Asian American twist” at Roundhouse Sports Bar in Logan Square. Matthew Reeves Here’s some of what’s happening in Chicago’s culinary scene: Venteux brasserie/cafe/oyster bar is celebrating a menu...

Plan to move Taste of Chicago to park near Navy Pier slammed

Chicago Sun-Times - Chicago Food and Restaurants 3/7 1:31P Fran Spielman
The Taste of Chicago, normally held in Grant Park, would move to a park near Navy Pier this summer under a schedule proposed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Rich Hein/Sun-Times/File Lame-duck Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to hold Taste of Chicago on the...

Lightfoot proposal to move Taste of Chicago to park near Navy Pier slammed

Chicago Sun-Times - Chicago Food and Restaurants 3/7 11:42A Fran Spielman
The Taste of Chicago, normally held in Grant Park, would move to a park near Navy Pier this summer under a schedule proposed by Mayor Lori Lightfoot. Rich Hein/Sun-Times/File Lame-duck Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s plan to hold Taste of Chicago on the...

Founder of Mr. Beef, which inspired FX’s ‘The Bear,’ dead at 69

Chicago Sun-Times - Chicago Food and Restaurants 3/7 7:18A Mitch Dudek
Joe Zucchero, owner of Mr. Beef, died March 1. Provided Joe Zucchero never relaxed. Approaching 70, his routine was the same: Wake up. Trim and slice beef. Serve happy customers sandwiches at his River North beef joint, Mr. Beef. “I’d be like,...
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