Eat this! Pimento cheese, ruby-studded Southern comfort

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

Bring on the Chicago barbecue bonanza!

I can see that, when even Mr. Zee’s, a Greek snack shop in Morton Grove has rebranded itself as Mr. Gee’s B.B.Q. on Demand, the barbecue trend might be getting a little ridiculous. But I think it’s fantastic — bring it on! All styles, all flavors, the more the merrier. Let’s have Kansas City-style, St. Louis-style, Texas-style, South Carolina-style, you-name-it-style … heck, we can even encompass Western Kentucky barbecued mutton.

Chicago helps the Gulf

Help wildlife and families affected by the BP disaster and enjoy some of Chicago’s best eats. A $50 donation to Gulf Coast oil spill cleanup gets you into a benefit hosted by some of some of the city’s hottest eateries. The event takes place 5–7 p.m. Sunday, July 25, at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum [...]

Name that smoker!

Wicker Park’s Smoke Daddy invites you to name its new smoker, a massive Southern Yankee smoker trailer.

Chef Dudley Nieto lands in Wicker Park

Peripatetic Chef Dudley Nieto, who has cooked everywhere from Adobo Grill to Zapatista, has a new Mexican restaurant home, La Fonda del Gusto in Wicker Park.

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,

Five ways to commemorate Earth Day in Chicago

Happy Earth Day! Today is the 40th anniversary of the first hippie-inspired, national environmental consciousness raising in 1970. Here are a few things you can do to mark the day.

Drink a Treetini.
For every one of the $9 cocktails — blended frin VeeV Acai Spirit with fresh agave nectar, club soda, a splash of white cranberry [...]

Eat this! Chicago celebrates cheese fondue on April 11

Celebrate National Cheese Fondue Day on April 11 with a warm pot of gooey goodness.

Ramping up: Chicago by any other name would smell as sweet

Although you won’t find any at your average hot-dog stand, Allium tricoccum is the real native food of Chicago.
Also known as the ramp, wild leek, wild garlic and ail des bois, A. tricoccum is the vegetable that gave the city its name.
While scholars are still arguing, most historians agree that Chicago is a [...]

Is Chicago the capital of ‘molecular gastronomy’?

The launch of Moto’s “Future Food” TV show, together with closing of Ferran Adria’s groundbreaking El Bulli restaurant in Spain, positions Chicago as the world capital of molecular gastronomy.