Get ready for the Year of the Dragon! With dragon parades and lion dances, clashing cymbals and banging drums, firecrackers and a plethora of traditional foods, the Asian Lunar New Year explodes into Chicago this week with a variety of events at restaurants and around town. 2012 also marks the 100th anniversary of Chicago’s Chinatown. [...]
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UPDATE: The event has been rescheduled to Nov. 16, and ticket prices reduced to $110. Our congratulations to Chef Priscila Satkoff of the creative Mexican restaurant ¡Salpicon! in Old Town, who’ll be the 2011 inductee into the Chicago Chefs’ Hall of Fame. Satkoff was to have been honored at an installation dinner Thursday, Sept. 29. [...] The Big Hot Dog, produced by Gorilla Tango Novelty Meats, a sideline for the folks behind Chicago’s Gorilla Tango Theatre, has been named the world’s largest commercially available hot dog by the Guinness Book of World Records. Gorilla Tango introduced the 16-inch-long, 4-inch-diameter, 7-pound wienie in January 2010. “I always knew I had something special [...] Which are Chicago’s most authentic Italian restaurants? Italy’s Istituto Nazionale Ricerche Turistiche (National Institute of Tourist Research) has named them, awarding eight Chicago restaurants its coveted “Ospitalita Italiana Seal – Italian Retaurants in the World” for culinary contributions to Italian culture. In the middle of a recession, Chicago restaurants experienced an astonishing upswing. The Trib called Chicago in 2008 a “chef magnet.” Travel + Leisure listed L2O, Perennial, The Publican and UrbanBelly in their “50 Best New American Restaurants.” Does this make up for Blagojevich’s shamefaced media stint? All told, not a bad year. Here is [...] 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 [...] Theo Ubique Theatre Company swept the spring 2009 Joseph Jefferson Awards, winning seven of the 26 prizes given for non-Equity theater performances. The annual awards ceremony honoring Chicago’s storefront and black-box theaters took place last night at Park West. Theo Ubique’s cabaret production of “Evita” received six awards — the most for any single production [...] They’re on their way! 25 aspiring young chefs are that much closer to their goals with more than $400,000 in cooking-school scholarships, awarded as prizes to high-school students in this year’s Careers through Culinary Arts Program Chicago Cooking Competition. Top winner Denzel Thornton of Chicago’s Corliss High School won a full-tuition scholarship to Johnson & [...] |
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