Top 10 Chicago chefs’ recipes for 2011

Our top 10 recipes from Chicago chefs.

Happy Thanksgiving, Chicago!

All of us at Dining Chicago wish you a delectable Thanksgiving weekend!  

Local chefs make Chicago beautiful

More than 2,000 people attended Chicago Gateway Green’s 2011 Green Tie Ball on Sept. 17. The charity event featured food from more than 70 Chicago restaurants and food trucks. Coordinated by Dining Chicago’s David Lissner, the bill of fare ranged from Big Jones Chef Paul Fehribach’s, Cajun chicken and andouille gumbo to Wave Chef Kristine [...]

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 [...]

Have a wonderful Labor Day, Chicago!

All of us at Dining Chicago wish you justified hopes and fair exchange for your labor. Enjoy Labor Day!  

Eat this! Six great Fourth of July recipes from Chicago chefs

Cook up some great picnic and party fare this Independence Day weekend with these terrific recipes from top Chicago chefs, culled from Dining Chicago’s weekly “Eat this!” feature.

Wishing you a peaceful Memorial Day….

  To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high. If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow      In Flanders Fields.             —John McCrae, 1915.  

Eat this! Six great spring recipes from Chicago chefs

Look no farther for great seasonal recipe ideas! Here’s a selection of sensational spring dishes from top Chicago chefs, culled from Dining Chicago’s weekly “Eat this!” feature.

Dancing with the Food Dude

We take a break from our regular focus on Chicago’s best restaurants to wish our publisher, David “The Food Dude” Lissner, a rapid recovery from his recent knee surgery. Hope you’re dancing again soon, David!

Remembering happier days at the now-closed Red Light

  The times, they are a’ changing. In this 1996 Dining Chicago video, Chef Michael Kornick (since gone on to his namesake mk and DMK Burger Bar) tells David Lissner about what was then the hottest new restaurant in the trendy Market District. Red Light closed in late March, reportedly due to liquor-license issues, and [...]