Café Ba Ba Reeba

Mother's Day is a little more than a week away, so if you haven't made brunch/dinner plans, it's time to get cracking. Here are a few suggestions to get you started. Allium. Mother's Day brunch seatings from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Expansive buffet with...

I have this problem. I made more New Year's Eve reservations than I can use. More than 100 of them, actually. Which is why, for the 12th straight year (and the 17th time in the past 19 years), I'll be giving them away to nimble-fingered readers who ask....

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....

I have this thing when it comes to food and restaurants.  Once I find something that is delicious, I'm talking spot-on satisfying, I have a hard time straying from that food or place.  For example – if I'm going to eat Mexican food, you have to do...

This weekend saw both the Party at St. Mike's and the Old Town Art Fair come to Lincoln Park. RedEye went in search of people sober enough to be coherent but inebriated enough to be candid about their favorite parts of the fests....

Also, an individual was attacked with a dangerous weapon near the Whole Foods, and an attack took place near a Clybourn Avenue bar in which the aggressor was arrested....

You're single in Chicago, but how many $70 dinners can you drop at Cafe Ba Ba Reeba before you're cracking your piggy bank with a hammer?...

7 years ago I lived in one of the most beautiful cities in the world …  Barcelona (Chicago is a very close second).  That part of the world is so different from the states; the culture, the scenery, the passion for life, and most importantly–...

John Cusack watches the Cubs-Milwaukee Brewers game at Wrigley Field on August 2, 2010. (Scott Strazzante/Chicago Tribune) John Cusack and a friend dined by the bar at Cafe Ba-Ba-Reeba in Lincoln Park on Friday. "Access Hollywood" correspondent Maria...

The square outside of Lincoln Park's historic St. Michael in Old Town church will host rock bands Hairbanger's Ball, 7th Heaven and Maggie Speaks June 10-12....

Here's a mini tradition that I wish would catch on in a big way: New Year's Day pajama brunch. There's nothing quite so entertaining as sitting down to brunch in a room full of nominal adults wearing brightly colored flannel. Factor in the condition in...