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Friday food porn: Spring board

Ramps and guanciale flatbread, slathered with hazelnut-ramp pesto and topped with grilled ramps, smoky guanciale and bits of preserved lemon, $16.50 at The Peasantry in Lincoln Park.

Party with great Chicago chefs

More than 40 of Chicago’s great chefs will be cooking up their specialties in the 21st annual Great Chefs Tasting Party, one of the premiere grazing galas of the season. The benefit for United Cerebral Palsy of Greater Chicago takes place beginning at 5 p.m. Monday, June 10, in the Ballroom of the

Ambria fans: your fave is back — for one night only

Six years ago, fans were surprised and disappointed when Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises shut down its Lincoln Park fine-dining restaurant Ambria after 27 years. During Ambria’s tenure, its chef, Gabino Sotelino won the James Beard Foundation’s Best Chef of the Midwest award in 1997, and his native Spain awarded him its Medalla al Merito Nacional, [...]

Award recognizes the top 10 clean eateries of Oak Park

They take cleanliness seriously in Oak Park. For 28 years, the village has annually honored the cleanest restaurant kitchens in town with the Johnson Restaurant Award, presented to establishments that consistently meet or exceed state food-safety standards. The award is named for Oak Park’s first lunchroom, the Johnson Restaurant, 124 Lake St., which operated in [...]

Mario’s is open — it’s officially summer in Chicago!

Nothing says summer in Chicago like Mario’s Italian Lemonade. Open from early May to mid-September, Mario’s has been a Little Italy icon since 1953. Hot days will find long lines stretching out into the street waiting for slushy Italian lemonande and freshly roasted nuts. Everybody goes to Mario’s — if you want to see a [...]

Friday food porn: Red, red rhurbarb

Pastry Chef Sarah Jordan’s fresh-as-spring take on pavlova with rhubarb, elderflower yogurt, St. Germain liqueur and rhubarb consomme, $12 at Boka in Lincoln Park. Pavlova, by the way, is an Antipodean meringue dessert named for the Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, who performed in Australia and New Zealand during the 1920s. Both countries claim invention of [...]

Aspiring young chefs: MTV wants you! Be a reality TV star

MTV plans to launch a new reality TV series, tentatively titled “Food School,” and you can star, as well as get a leg up for a culinary career. If you’ve always wanted to be a chef, here’s a weird way to start. Contestants in the show will live under one roof while being schooled in [...]

Learn to grill the perfect burger with Weber chefs

What’s summer without burgers on the grill? At 6 p.m Thursday, May 23, grilling experts at Weber Restaurant in Schaumburg will fire up their grills and teach you how to make the perfect grilled burger. In this hands-on class, you’ll get to prepare three specialty burgers: Kobe beef, salmon and ground turkey, as well as [...]

Mixologists muddle in River North tonight

Tonight, Untitled in River North launches “The Monthly Muddle,” sponsored by Angel’s Envy Kentucky Straight Bourbon. The event mixes up bartenders from craft cocktail pros in Chicago and from across the country. Starting at 8 p.m. every second Tuesday of the month, beginning today, a visiting bartender, a Chicago bartender and Untitled’s resident mixologist, Jacqueline [...]

Home bakers’ bonanza is back!

If you do your own baking, you won’t want to miss the return of the annual Wilton tent sale, May 31 through June 18 at Wilton Industries headquarters in Woodridge. The huge sale, housed in a football-field-sized tent, offers up to 75 percent off on Wilton cake pans, baking tools, cake accessories, cookie and candy [...]