Cabra, Chicago, June 2020
Chef Stephanie Izard is a major force in the Chicago culinary world and it doesn't take a genius to figure out why. Every time I have tasted her food—in a…
Trulucks, Chicago, July 2019
I first visited a Truluck's in La Jolla, California back in 2014 and I wrote about it here. In that review, I lamented the fact that it was so far…
Bellemore, Chicago, March 2019
I have posted two previous reviews of Bellemore, last August and last November. Both Valeria and I enjoyed those meals very much, so we decided to return as the calendar…
Copper Fox Gastopub, Chicago, Dec. 2018
Valeria and I enjoyed the days around Christmas and New Year's very much this year, and I hope you did, too. A couple of days before Christmas we took in…
Bellemore, Chicago, November, 2018
Valeria and I made our first visit to Bellemore, a (relatively) new restaurant in the Boka Restaurant Group, back in August. We were impressed by the ambience, food, wine, and…
Swift & Sons, Chicago, September 2018
Chicago has a long history of great steakhouses stretching back to 1865. That's the year the Union Stock Yards opened to slaughter and process farm animals brought in, primarily by…
Still Flying High: Oriole, Chicago, September 2018
Oriole is the best restaurant in Chicago. There, I said it. I don't normally proclaim anything "the best" simply because it almost always involves both objective criteria and subjective criteria. Food that…
Bellemore, Chicago, August 2018
Almost a year ago now, Chicago's Boka Restaurant Group, in partnership with Chef Jimmy Papadopoulos, presented Bellemore, a big, open restaurant with an eclectic, modern interior designed by Karen Herold of Studio…
Booth One, Chicago, April 2018
Way back on October 1, 1938, a restaurant called The Pump Room opened in a hotel that was then called The Ambassador East. Over the next 40 years or so,…
Carson’s, Chicago, March 2018
Devoted readers (there must be one out there somewhere! ?) will remember that I visited the downtown Chicago location of Carson’s Prime Steaks & Famous Barbecue back in July of 2016.…
