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Sidewalk chefs serve up taste of Pimlico
After 25 Preaknesses, Annette Thomas has her routine, and recipes, down pat. Thirty pounds of ribs, both pork and beef, marinated overnight in vinegar and soy sauce, then grilled in front of her house on Saturday. Fifty pounds of red-skin potatoes ...
Tags: Corn on the Cob, Lifestyle and Leisure, Corn, Preakness Stakes, Pimlico Race Course
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Phil Vettel: Two stars for Boarding House
The first thing that catches your eye when entering The Boarding House is the chandelier. Except it's not really a chandelier, but an art installation consisting of 9,000-plus (official count: 9,063) suspended wine glasses. "One glass for every wine I'...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure, Parsnips, Phil Vettel, Caesar Salads
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A year after closing restaurant, chef pops up ... where?
Chef moves where? Readers will sometimes write in about a restaurant that’s been gone for 10 or more years, wondering what happened. Maybe they don’t get out much, but even frequent restaurant-goers can get so distracted with all the new...
Tags: Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure, Restaurants
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A potluck kind of year
If only it were so easy to pithily proclaim 2012 as the Year of the (fill-in-the-blank). But there's really no one thread that neatly ties together the Chicago restaurant scene these last 12 months. A restaurant that put Chicago on the culinary map 25...Tags: L2O, Charlie Trotter's, Everest, Acadia, Tom Colicchio
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Critic's Choice: Hearty breakfasts worth a wake-up call
Los Angeles Times Restaurant CriticI'm always receiving emails or texts from friends needing to know (right away!) where to go for breakfast in this or that neighborhood. The first meal of the day is ideal for catching up with friends or meeting up with a colleague or out-of-town visitor....Tags: Dining and Drinking, Lifestyle and Leisure, Father's Office, Restaurants, Jams and Jellies
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Let's break out the old crystal ball
Time once again for my annual exercise in humiliation, as I try to predict the star recipients in the 2013 Michelin Chicago Guide, which hits bookstores Wednesday. This is the third year that Michelin has published a Chicago guide, and if there's one...
Tags: L2O, Twin Anchors, Sixteen, Charlie Trotter's, Everest
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Indian-born adviser to Leo Burnett, colleagues navigates digital world
Tribune staff reporterOn a warm September day in Chicago, Rishad Tobaccowala counseled a roomful of Leo Burnett executives on how to sell high-tech gadgets -- told in terms of hot dogs. Tobaccowala, who has spent 30 years at Leo Burnett and affiliated agencies,...Tags: Mumbai (India), India, Advertising, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune Columnists
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Chicago nabs two five-star hotels, three restaurants from Forbes Travel Guide
Tribune newspapersTwo Chicago hotels and three restaurants have been awarded the top five-star designation in the annual Forbes Travel Guide ratings. The honored hotels were the Four Seasons and The Peninsula, and the restaurants were Alinea, Charlie Trotter's and L2O....Tags: L2O, Graham Elliot, Hotels and Accommodations, Sixteen, Hotel and Accommodation Industry
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Waldorf Astoria preserves Elysian luxury
As they say across the pond, "The King is dead! Long live the King!"
Such is the case for the former Elysian Chicago, a five-diamond hotel recently ranked No. 1 in the country by the readers of Conde Nast Traveler. Hilton bought the Gold Coast hotel late...Tags: Michelin Group, Personal Service, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Chicago Hotels, Chicago Transit Authority
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City health inspections tough even for toniest of restaurants
Close watchers of Chicago's food scene may have been surprised to learn that Alinea — one of the most highly regarded restaurants in the city and the world — failed its routine health inspection a month ago.
But what may seem like a big...Tags: Soups, Politics, Consumer Goods Industries, Chicago Tribune, Charlie Trotter's
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Phil Vettel recommends
Dining out on Christmas Day is never easy, but it's not impossible. Most people know that Chinatown is always a good dining-out bet, and nearly every hotel restaurant has to provide some sort of food service, even on Christmas Day (can't let your guests...Tags: Holidays, Dining and Drinking, Christmas, Religious Festivals, Pump Room
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Please be seated
You can't count on snow for Christmas. You can't count on a 7-3 Bears team making the playoffs.
But you can count on my annual save-the-tables list, which provides dozens of last-minute, primo New Year's Eve reservations for procrastinating readers....Tags: Disc Jockeys, L2O, Harry Caray, Nana, Sixteen
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