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: Loving Wollensky’s lobster

The lobster “cocktail” at Smith & Wollensky’s river-level Grill: a chilled whole Maine lobster served with house-made ginger dipping sauce and cocktail sauce made with freshly grated horseradish, $19.

Eat this! Prime rib, big cuts of beautiful beef

“Prime rib” refers to thick cut of roast beef, usually from a bone-in, standing rib roast. It’s typically simply seasoned and slowly roasted, making it an easy and impressive company meal.

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 [...]

Friday food porn: Meaty beaty big and boxy at Primehouse

The Big Bull brunch bento at David Burke’s Primehouse.

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?

Happy anniversary! Chicago restaurants invite you to celebrate

Celebrate with D.O.C., Hugo’s and Gibsons

Can you handicap Chicago’s Top Chef Masters?

We have upped the ante in our Top Chef Masters contest.

So long, spinning salad bowl! Don Roth’s Blackhawk to close

I was so sad to see the news that Don Roth’s Blackhawk in Wheeling will close forever after serving dinner on New Year’s Eve. On Monday, owner Ann Roth, Don’s widow, announced the closing: “With my 90th birthday on the horizon and none of my children in a position to assume responsibility for the family [...]