Berghoff Restaurant

"After all them years, all that double talk — the white man's finally moving in," says one Negro League barnstormer to another, after a teammate gets a call from the Brooklyn Dodgers about a historic opportunity. The scene in question sounds...

Chicago Restaurant Week ends Sunday, but a few dozen restaurants will extend their $22 lunch, $33 and/or $44 dinner offers for a few more days, or more. This will be the fifth straight year this has happened; Chicago restaurants, happy with the extra...

“The Dark Knight Rises” has already been a blessing for Pittsburgh and Newark, N.J., two non-traditional film locations that replaced Chicago as Gotham City in the third Christopher Nolan-directed Batman film. The superhero movie, in...

In her 38 years in the restaurant business, server Linda Doherty has come up with a few theories: It's easier to memorize orders instead of writing them down. Diners like it when you joke around. And, while you can never predict this exactly, there are...

Berghoff Restaurant 17 W. Adams Chicago (312) 427-3170 http://www.theberghoff.com/ Event: Berghoff’s 27th annual Oktoberfest September 12 - 14 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. Adams and Dearborn Chicago

26th Annual Berghoff Oktoberfest September 14-16 11a.m. to 9 p.m. John C. Kluczynski Federal Plaza Adams and Dearborn This open-air celebration boasts the best Bavarian-style revelry Chicago has to offer with classic German food, Berghoff's private-label...

Emeril Lagasse's new show on the Cooking Channel, “The Originals with Emeril,” examines established restaurants and their dishes that he says have stood the test of time. Thursday's episode comes to Chicago, and Lagasse's choices — The...

Batman rides his Batpod in a scene from “The Dark Knight." (AP Photo/Warner Bros.) Will Batman return? That's the question some have been pondering after an online report last month said the third film in the rebooted superhero franchise would leave...

New Beer's Eve April is the anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition (the Volstead Act) in Chicago. On April 7, 1933, Herman Berghoff, secured the first two liquor licenses issued by the City of Chicago: #1 for the Berghoff Bar and #2 for the Berghoff...