This meal represents my sixth visit to Creepies: the characterful new bistro from the Elske team whose 60 or so seats remain in high demand…
By tangling with Smyth in this new format, I hope to speak to a starker reality: one that better acknowledges imperfections (and their capacity for disappointment) on the path toward iterative excellence.
With the arrival of October, Otto Phan’s omakase inches closer to what might be considered its conventional peak…
Dimmi Dimmi is a neighborhood Italian-American restaurant that has quickly become one of Chicago’s hardest reservations…
Creepies, nearly two months in, doesn’t need to be perfect so long as the team preserves its capacity to dream…
Here, in September, I can finally say that Kyōten has undergone a major change…
Since writing about Oriole “2.0” in February of 2022, I’ve visited the restaurant another 13 times…
More than a year after my last visit to Valhalla, I now ask: was I right to have faith, or did I jump the gun?
Three visits hardly seem like enough to come to any definitive conclusion, yet they represent a starting point in evaluating a place that is already at the pinnacle (however shakily) of our dining scene…
Pitting months and months of Kyōten omakases against each other is starting to become a complicated task…