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.
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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 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, [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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