A few hours ago at the Cultural Center, Mayor Daley held a press conference to drum up excitement about September's Chicago Gourmet festival. Excitement is definitely needed: Last year's Chicago Gourmet, the event's freshman effort, was, to put it mildly,...
Posted in MenuPages Blog :: Chicago on 07/09/2009 at 04:00 PM
TOC's Heather Shouse reports that Terrance Brennan, proprietor of New York's Artisanal bistro/cheese temple/pungent-smelling room, is officially shelving his planned Chicago outpost. This is disappointing on many levels. There's the "Argh, the freaking economy" level — Team Brennan's reluctance to...
Posted in MenuPages Blog :: Chicago on 11/10/2008 at 01:40 PM
Things to keep in mind while you watch this clip of Chicago 24/7 visiting Carrie Nahabedian in the kitchen at her restaurant, Naha, to make some gnocchi: • The host, Katie Keogh, is wearing a purple satin cocktail dress and...
Posted in MenuPages Blog :: Chicago on 10/21/2008 at 11:10 AM
Phil Vettel, where have you been all our life? Or, perhaps more accurately, where have you been all our yesterday? Because seriously, honestly, your four-star rave for Avenues most certainly was not on the Tribune's website Thursday morning. Or afternoon....
Posted in MenuPages Blog :: Chicago on 10/10/2008 at 09:03 AM
Phil Vettel! We hope you got a bonus check this week because you have like nine billion bylines today. Or, okay, four, and two of them are really the same article, but still. • Vettel #1: It was almost five...
Posted in MenuPages Blog :: Chicago on 10/02/2008 at 03:19 PM
• Talk about mockery: Emily Nunn dives into the world of fake food — from imitation cockscomb in the 17th century to the fake-orange flavor in Tang to faux meat at Karyn's. While she comes up with no conclusive reasons...
Posted in MenuPages Blog :: Chicago on 10/01/2008 at 03:31 PM
After all the hype surrounding Chicago Gourmet, we have to cop to a tiny bit of schadenfreude when reading all the "where's the food?" complaints, but ultimately we were rooting for the food festival to pull off its freshman effort....
Posted in MenuPages Blog :: Chicago on 09/30/2008 at 09:55 AM
The scene on the great lawn. You might or might not noticed that, oh, the past half-dozen posts on here were contributed by the eminently talented Bridget Houlihan and Tammy Green of the Chicago Bites podcast, who put on...
Posted in MenuPages Blog :: Chicago on 09/29/2008 at 04:34 PM
Chicago put itself on the front burner this past weekend with the inaugural Chicago Gourmet, a weekend-long festival of food and wine attended by chefs and sommeliers near and far. Special MenuPages correspondents Bridget Houlihan and Tammy Green, of the...
Posted in MenuPages Blog :: Chicago on 09/29/2008 at 02:30 PM
Chicago put itself on the front burner this past weekend with the inaugural Chicago Gourmet, a weekend-long festival of food and wine attended by chefs and sommeliers near and far. Special MenuPages correspondents Bridget Houlihan and Tammy Green, of the...
Posted in MenuPages Blog :: Chicago on 09/29/2008 at 12:05 PM
Chicago puts itself on the front burner this weekend with the inaugural Chicago Gourmet, a weekend-long festival of food and wine attended by chefs and sommeliers near and far. Special MenuPages correspondents Bridget Houlihan and Tammy Green, of the dining...
Posted in MenuPages Blog :: Chicago on 09/29/2008 at 09:45 AM
Chicago puts itself on the front burner this weekend with the inaugural Chicago Gourmet, a weekend-long festival of food and wine attended by chefs and sommeliers near and far. Special MenuPages correspondents Bridget Houlihan and Tammy Green, of the dining...
Posted in MenuPages Blog :: Chicago on 09/28/2008 at 03:48 PM
Chicago puts itself on the front burner this weekend with the inaugural Chicago Gourmet, a weekend-long festival of food and wine attended by chefs and sommeliers near and far. Special MenuPages correspondents Bridget Houlihan and Tammy Green, of the dining...
Posted in MenuPages Blog :: Chicago on 09/28/2008 at 12:31 PM
Chicago puts itself on the front burner this weekend with the inaugural Chicago Gourmet, a weekend-long festival of food and wine attended by chefs and sommeliers near and far. Special MenuPages correspondents Bridget Houlihan and Tammy Green, of the dining...
Posted in MenuPages Blog :: Chicago on 09/28/2008 at 10:19 AM
Chicago puts itself on the front burner this weekend with the inaugural Chicago Gourmet, a weekend-long festival of food and wine attended by chefs and sommeliers near and far. Special MenuPages correspondents Bridget Houlihan and Tammy Green, of the dining...
Posted in MenuPages Blog :: Chicago on 09/27/2008 at 09:50 AM
You read that right. As if our hot dogs, pizza, and Italian beef — oh, and the Taste — weren't enough, Chicago is putting itself on the haute culinary map this weekend with the inaugural Chicago Gourmet, a weekend-long...
Posted in MenuPages Blog :: Chicago on 09/26/2008 at 01:33 PM
There's more going on in Millennium Park this weekend than Chicago Gourmet — launching tomorrow and running for the next two weeks is Wired NextFest, "the premier showcase of the global innovations transforming our world." The free event is a...
Posted in MenuPages Blog :: Chicago on 09/26/2008 at 10:36 AM
"That’s gonna be great. We’ve got the culinary and we’re bringing in some international chefs from some sister cities. We’re really highlighting that because now culinary and hospitality–we’re about the second city almost, close to New York. We have great...
Posted in MenuPages Blog :: Chicago on 09/25/2008 at 01:50 PM
It's a week to the day from the grand opening gala of Chicago Gourmet, the weekend-long food and wine festival that is poised to elevate Chicago to the ranks of Aspen and South Beach when it comes to in-one-placeness...
Posted in MenuPages Blog :: Chicago on 09/19/2008 at 09:47 AM
Today's Tribune dining section, quickly posted before you leave the glow of your computer screen, the deep yet undeniably digital embrace of this blog and its love for you, to be with your real family and friends. Not that...
Posted in MenuPages Blog :: Chicago on 09/11/2008 at 05:08 PM