The Chicago River is a block away, but you’d never know it’s there. To be fair, you can’t see anything of the outside world inside Caché 310, an intimate, new cocktail lounge in the West Loop — and ...

Tajah Ware is a Chicago-based writer and storyteller covering culture, community, and the city’s ever-evolving dining scene. The Shutter, a regular roundup of Chicago’s restaurant closures, is your ...

Zarella, part of Chicago’s new wave of tavern-style pizzerias, might have you fighting for the last piece of the pie.

“In 2022 and half of 2023, we would do like $40,000 to $60,000 [in sales] a month out of one little stall,” says Jamra, whose restaurant, Evette’s, was named one of the New York Times’ 50 Best ...

GOLD COAST — After three years and an extensive $4 million renovation, Rosebud Restaurant Group’s Carmine’s reopened on ...

Nylah Iqbal Muhammad is a James Beard Award-nominated food and travel journalist with work focusing on hunting, food sovereignty, and Black and North American Indigenous foodways. Between anxiety ...

The Food Network show, hosted by Geoffrey Zakarian and Sunny Anderson, exalts Au Cheval’s “perfect burger-to-cheese ratio.” It beat out Brindle Room in New York, Pie ‘n Burger in Pasadena, Calif., Sid ...

Chicago will once again be a hotspot for restaurant and bar folks from across the country as they gather here for the annual James Beard Awards, the American hospitality industry’s glitziest awards ...

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 ...

EDGEWATER — After closing its Chicago location in 2022, La Mom Kitchen has returned in Edgewater. The Sichuan and Shanghainese restaurant serves a variety of dishes like boiled beef in chile sauce, ...