Eat this! Tzimmes, a sweet start to the Jewish New Year

Jews serve tzimmes at Rosh Hashana, a holiday rich in symbolic foods, because custom calls for serving sweet dishes at the High Holidays in hopes of a sweet New Year.

10 places to get Rosh Hashana dinner in Chicago

Plenty of Chicagoland restaurants are happy to help you greet Rosh Hashana 5771 on Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 8–9.

Slurp your way through September wine tastings

Drink up, wine lovers! You can sip, slurp and sample your way through September with a wide variety of wines being poured at Chicago-area steakhouses.
From 5:30 to 7 p.m. every Thursday in September, Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse in River North and Lincolnshire will showcase its latest selection of 100 wines served by the glass. At [...]

Friday food porn: Beeting it at Gemini Bistro

Tuck into chunks of roasted baby beets, drizzled with white truffle vinaigrette and sprinkled with goat cheese, alongside lamb’s lettuce, $8 at Gemini Bistro in Lincoln Park.
The American restaurant celebrates its first anniversary Sept. 7–12 with a $29.09 three-course prix fixe.

Eat this! Pimento cheese, ruby-studded Southern comfort

Pimento cheese spread remains beloved fare below the Mason-Dixon Line.

Push-button food emerging from the science-fiction kitchen

You’ve heard about the paper food that the molecular gastronomists at the West Loop’s Moto … well, that may soon be old hat.

Eat this! Chow chow and piccalilli pickle the Southern harvest

Almost any food can be pickled, and in the South most things are. Chef Paul of Big Jones in Andersonville generously shares his recipes for Southern-style mirliton chow chow, onion pickle, pickled okra, dill refrigerator pickles and piccalilli.

You’ll be mighty glad you went to ‘Carousel’

Light Opera Works offers a delicious revival of >Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s poignant 1945 musical, “Carousel” through Aug. 28.

Friday food porn: The toast of tomato season at Pinstripes

At Pinstripes in Northbrook and South Barrington they brush slices of ciabatta with extra-virgin olive oil and sea salt bread, grill them and cover them with organic grape tomatoes, chunks of fresh mozzarella and a glaze of 7-year-old balsamic vinegar, and serve them with a garnish of wild arugula and shaved pecorino.

Happy Birthday, The Bagel

Celebrating its 60th anniversary, The Bagel Restaurant & Deli in Lakeview and Skokie invites deli lovers to do their “wurst” in its “DELI-icious Sandwich Contest.”