Category: Reviews

Review: The Food at Chicago’s Yūgen Is Delightful but Sometimes Overwrought  Fortune

There is no shortage of ideas at Chef Mari Katsumura’s West Loop restaurant, but the dishes could use a bit of editing.

A (brief) guide to the food of Kerala  Chicago Reader

A selection of the southwestern Indian state’s greatest hits from Glenview’s Kairali Foods.

Jeong Is Chicago’s Most Exciting New Restaurant  Chicagomag.com

My relationship with tasting menus is a long and winding road, littered with lusty declarations and unmet expectations. As a young writer, I considered myself an …

Burgers by the Numbers  Grub Street

Au Cheval’s New York City outpost seems more familiar than *fresh*. The combination of the kind of uneven, sometimes slapdash execution you often see in …

Phil Vettel reviews Brass Heart  WGN TV Chicago

CHICAGO — Brass Heart opened in August in Uptown with sky-high ambitions and prices to match. Dinner for two is going to set you back around three hundred …

Adams Street Brewery, aka the Berghoff Bar: Our review  Crain’s Chicago Business

“Berghoff’s bar is famous,” read an encomium in the Chicago Tribune’s obituary of patriarch Herman Berghoff on Jan. 1, 1935. And so it remains today, with the …

Chicago’s New Koreatown dining guide: 38 restaurants, stalls, bakeries plus must-try orders at each  Chicago Tribune

First ever guide to eating in New Koreatown: The best dishes from 38 restaurants, stalls and bakeries.

Hot Chicago restaurant openings of spring and summer 2019  Crain’s Chicago Business

Big-name chefs, independent restaurateurs and outside players are debuting spots in town over the next few months.

MFK: Chicago restaurant review  Crain’s Chicago Business

Some lunches are like lunch, all sandwiches and entree salads and inescapable-as-doom sides of fries. Some lunches, however, resemble dinner, maybe even …

Does Italian Village Hold Up in 2019?  Chicagomag.com

On a recent weeknight, I saw a hungry couple, 60-ish and gray, wander into Italian Village, perhaps lured by the massive neon sign on West Monroe Street that …

Critic’s Choice Dining Awards: The Chicago chefs who defined excellence in 2018  Chicago Tribune

Phil Vettel on the Chicago Tribune Critic’s Choice Dining Awards.

Review: Taureaux Tavern in Chicago’s Loop  Crain’s Chicago Business

Taureaux Tavern finds Mike Sheerin of Trenchermen and the early days of Blackbird in the kitchen.

Truluck’s: Chicago restaurant review  Crain’s Chicago Business

Truluck’s formal-*service*, white-tablecloth experience is expense-account-worthy, special-occasion dining, and it could be just the ticket if you have a client to …

Wishbone Chicago restaurant review  Crain’s Chicago Business

The restaurant recently left its West Loop home of 26 years and relocated eastward, to Jefferson Street, just south of the el tracks.

Restaurant review: City Winery in Chicago for business lunch  Crain’s Chicago Business

A new executive chef, Mark Mendez (Vera, Carnivale), has been tweaking the menu a little at a time, to good effect.

Yelp claims Chicago area’s best restaurant is 40 miles away in Waukegan  Chicago Tribune

Unlike other restaurant lists, where critics rank options according to personal criteria, Yelp uses hard data. No fickle food preferences here.