Friday food porn: From the queen of dessert

A “Five-Star Plated Dessert” by World Pastry Champion En-Ming Hsu.

Hot Chicago hotel menu happenings

Chicago’s hotel restaurants are sizzling this summer. Here’s a sampling:

Stetson’s Chop House in the Loop’s Hyatt Regency Chicago has added a $38 three-course set menu to recently enhanced regular menu. Served daily before 6:30 p.m. and after 8 p.m., the prix fixe offers a choice of French onion soup or caesar salad to [...]

Leah’s Notebook: News of Chicago’s dining scene

Condolences to the family and friends of Edna Stewart, founder and head chef of West Side soul food spot Edna’s Restaurant.

Eat this! Panna cotta, cream that quivers

For the recent 15th-anniversary dinner of Courtright’s in Willow Springs, Chef Jerome Bacle created a horseradish panna cotta topped with lobster salad and berries soaked in aged balsamic vinegar.

21 freebies for Mother’s Day in Chicago

You could take your mom out for the usual Mother’s Day brunch this Sunday, May 9, but why not go where she’ll get a little something extra?

The best Chicago restaurants ever? Really?

What would you add to the list? What would you leave off?

Easter means lamb cake in Chicago

Got Easter lamb?
For every table in Chicago that will be serving the meat of young sheep this Easter, at least two will be serving Easter lamb … cake.
An ancient symbol of Christ and the Easter sacrifice, the lamb is key in Roman Catholic holiday celebrations. In cities through out the Midwest where Polish, Italian, [...]

Eat this! Bananas Foster, a hot retro dessert from New Orleans

A New Orleans-born dessert of warm caramelized bananas flambeed with cognac or rum and served with ice cream, bananas Foster is a signature dish at The Chicago Firehouse in the South Loop.

Eat this! Zeppole for St. Joseph’s Day

Zeppole di San Giuseppe are Southern Italian pastries traditionally served for the feast of St. Joseph on March 19, a holiday that often gets undeservedly lost amid all the foofaraw of St. Patrick’s Day, a pity because St. Joe’s Day offers much better food.

Check out Chicago’s best chefs of the future

Taste the talents of tomorrow’s greatest chefs Friday at a benefit showcasing Chicago’s top culinary students.