Leña Brava centers around cooking food over a wood fire. A restaurant aimed to showcase Bayless’s talent along Randolph Restaurant Row, where pricey mezcal sits on shelves behind the bar. Bayless and ...
Tajah Ware is a Chicago-based writer and storyteller covering culture, community, and the city’s ever-evolving dining scene. In our Dining Reports, we share a firsthand perspective of a recent ...
Ashok Selvam is the former James Beard Award-winning regional editor for Eater’s Midwest region, in charge of coverage in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities. He’s a native Chicagoan and had been ...
House-smoked kielbasa has been a hit on the menu at Pierogi Kitchen since Gosia Pieniazek and Artur Wnorowski transformed their Wicker Park spot Firewood BBQ into a Polish restaurant in January. Now ...
Brenda Storch is based in Chicago, and has spent more than 20 years focusing on elevating underrepresented narratives, deepening the understanding of food as an element of cultural identity, and ...
Ashok Selvam is the former James Beard Award-winning regional editor for Eater’s Midwest region, in charge of coverage in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities. He’s a native Chicagoan and had been ...
NORWOOD PARK — Illuminated Brew Works will close after five years in business (founders Brian Buckman and Matt Shirley began brewing in 2013 and opened their first taproom in 2021). It is the latest ...
Brenna Houck is an Oregon-based dining editorial manager for the Eater network, overseeing the Cascadia, Midwest, and Southeast regions. She previously edited Eater Detroit and reported for Eater. You ...
Bars and restaurants throughout Chicago offer a last chance to spend time outside before the temperatures really plunge, warding off the evening chill with fire pits. There are trendy rooftop bars for ...
Ashok Selvam is the former James Beard Award-winning regional editor for Eater’s Midwest region, in charge of coverage in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities. He’s a native Chicagoan and had been ...
Four years ago, when Luis Zendejas’s father broke his foot, he stepped in to run his parents’ restaurant, Las Islas Marias, in Wheeling, Illinois. Growing up, Zendejas had worked for the restaurant, ...
Lettuce Entertain You will hold onto the space and reconcept it into a more affordable restaurant with chef Matthew Kirkley still at the helm involved. What exactly that will be is currently ...