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…
Indienne is one of few Michelin-starred restaurants in Chicago I have yet to write about…
It might be best to think of this experience as the “B-side” of Maxwells Trading…