Don’t miss Chicago’s August summer festivals

Festival season continues in Chicago, with Taste of Little Italy, Northalsted Market Days and the Air and Water Show.

Join the fight for life: Dine out on Thursday

The single largest HIV/AIDS benefit in the country, the 17th Annual Dining Out for Life, takes place Thursday, April 29. A portion of your meal check at a variety of Chicago and suburban restaurants will benefit AIDSCare Progressive Services, an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for Chicagoans with HIV/AIDS through housing,

Friday food porn: Egg-luscious at the Kit Kat Lounge

The Kit Kat Lounge & Supper Club in Northalsted serves this fluffy omelet, folded around sauteed spinach and grilled chicken, with a sprinkling of crumbled feta ($12), at its weekly brunch, served 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sundays.

The best Chicago restaurants ever? Really?

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

Eat this! Berkshire pork, a meaty heritage

What it is: Berkshire pork is meat from a pedigreed breed of black-coated swine prized for juiciness, flavor and tenderness. The breed is also known as kurobuta, Japanese for “black pork.” It is a deeper-hued, more heavily marbled pork than “the other white meat” widely promoted in recent years.
“To me Berkshire pork is the Kobe [...]

Top 10 Chicago restaurant recipes of 2009

The Dining Chicago blog hasn’t been around a whole year yet, and our weekly “Eat this!” recipe column has been going an even shorter time, but that isn’t going to stop us from giving you a list of our most popular recipes from 2009. The list below contains our most-visited recipes from local restaurants.

Petterino’s, Loop: [...]

13 screamingly fun things to do in Chicagoland for Halloween

Haunted drive-in movie, 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, Margate Fieldhouse, Uptown, $5 (includes popcorn and hot dog).
Margate Fieldhouse becomes a drive-in movie theater, featuring “The Addams Family.” Seating is limited.

‘Fear,’ 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 30 and 31, The Neo-Futurarium, Andersonville, $15.
Visit the “thinking man’s haunted house” of Edgar Allen Poe with the [...]

Eat this! Granola: A hippie staple from the Woodstock era

 
What it is: A mixture of rolled oats and nuts, sweetened, and baked till crispy, often mixed with dried fruit.
Where it comes from: The roots of granola date to the 19th century and the flaky food faddists who saw whole grains as a means to purity. Originally called “Granula,” Dr. John Harvey Kellogg’s mixture [...]