Chicago Gateway Green honors founding member

Thanks for dining, Chicago!

DON’T FORGET! The days are getting shorter and the nights longer, so remember that DiningChicago.com is your best source for dining out info about Chicago’s top restaurants. Also watch me with Chicago’s best chefs at on local Chicago cable channel 25 at 11 p.m. Wednesdays, 7:30 and 10 p.m. Fridays and 11 a.m. and 11 [...]

TV concept pairs Chicago youths and culinary students

Teaming with Michael Kornick’s mk Restaurant, Kendall College’s School for the Culinary Arts and various chefs and mentors, “A Plate Apart,” a proposed reality-TV program, proposes to offer an exciting opportunity to some at-risk inner-city Chicago youths as well as area culinary students. In the show, six hand-picked culinary students from Kendall must work together [...]

Thanks for dining with Dining Chicago!

DON’T FORGET! As we come to the year’s end and look forward to 2011, remember that DiningChicago.com is your best source for detail on Chicago’s top restaurants. Also watch me with Chicago’s best chefs at 4 p.m. every Saturday on WJYS-TV, Channel 62, for inside views of the best Chicago restaurants, cooking demos and more. [...]

Be a ‘MasterChef’ — casting Saturday and Sunday

The Food Dude does the Hamburger Hop

Who makes the best burgers in town? We found out at the Illinois Restaurant Association’s Hamburger Hop this fall. Featured in this video are: John Coletta, Quartino, River North Dirk Flanigan, Gage, Loop Kevin Hickey, Four Seasons, Streeterville Ryan Laroche, NoMi, Magnificent Mile Steve Palmer, and Steve Lawhorn, Palmer Place, LaGrange Chad Starling, Aria, Loop [...]

Gaztro-wagon hits the Chicago streets

The Gaztro-wagon hits the Chicago streets tomorrow.

Chicago Top Chefs Contest voting extended!

There’s still time to vote in our Chicago Top Chefs contest! Click the link to see our great prizes. We’re keeping the voting going until the first Chicago chef is dropped from the show.

Can you handicap Chicago’s Top Chef Masters?

We have upped the ante in our Top Chef Masters contest.

Read all about the best restaurants in Dining Chicago

The new issue of Dining Chicago magazine is out, with loads of information about all the best restaurants in the Chicago area. Besides the top menus in town, in this issue we announce: Dining Chicago’s 2009 Fresh Meat Awards Our picks of Chicago’s best new restaurants of the year. Don’t miss this four-part showcase of [...]