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Category Archive: Morsels

MORSEL: VALHALLA (August 2025)

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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?

Posted on September 18, 2025September 18, 2025 No Comments

MORSEL: INDIENNE (August 2025)

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Indienne is one of few Michelin-starred restaurants in Chicago I have yet to write about…

Posted on August 29, 2025August 29, 2025 No Comments

MORSEL: TABLE, DONKEY and STICK (July 2025)

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One of the recurring themes I engage with in these shorter pieces is that of the “neighborhood restaurant”…

Posted on August 12, 2025August 12, 2025 1 Comment

MORSEL: NIC + JUNIOR’S (July 2025)

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With Nic + Junior’s listing among the hottest restaurants in Chicago, it would appear the concept is finally ready for primetime…

Posted on August 1, 2025August 1, 2025 No Comments

MORSEL: MAXWELLS TRADING (June 2025)

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With Maxwells Trading’s popularity at a peak, my present format seems well-suited to writing some kind of evaluation…

Posted on July 18, 2025July 18, 2025 1 Comment

MORSEL: MI TOCAYA ANTOJERÍA (May 2025)

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Mi Tocaya is of that rare caliber: the kind of place whose work, on both sides of the hedonistic/intellectual spectrum, I find impossible to shake.

Posted on June 13, 2025June 13, 2025 No Comments

MORSEL: ELSKE (May 2025)

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Does Elske live up to the lofty status I have assigned it in my imagination?

Posted on May 30, 2025May 30, 2025 No Comments

MORSEL: CELLAR DOOR PROVISIONS (April 2025)

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At the risk of repeating what has recently (and rather convincingly) been said, I must write this piece…

Posted on May 15, 2025July 1, 2025 No Comments

MORSEL: ENEMY at WARLORD (April 2025)

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Enemy formed the entry point through which I could finally get to know what Warlord was doing…

Posted on May 1, 2025May 2, 2025 5 Comments

MORSEL: SUGAR SHACK at LE BOUCHON (March 2025)

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I have learned over many years and many tasting menus to be suspicious of any meal that seems like “too much of a good thing.”

Posted on April 19, 2025April 19, 2025 No Comments

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