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Reservations please
Here's something you may not know about Open Table, the predominant online restaurant reservations system: When you book a table through the Open Table website, the restaurant is charged $1 per seated guest — so if you show up as a foursome, that'...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Lactose Intolerance, Marketing, Apple iPad, Yusho
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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: Seasons Restaurant, Dale Levitski, Goosefoot, Ann Sather, Dining and Drinking
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Next's tickets system expands
Alinea, Chicago's most acclaimed restaurant, has used Open Table in the past to manage — though not take — reservations, but co-owner Nick Kokonas isn't shy about anticipating and working toward the service's demise. Kokonas, partners with...
Tags: Lincoln Square (Chicago, Illinois), Lifestyle and Leisure, The Rolling Stones (music group), The Aviary, Marketing
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Phil Vettel: Halloween hot spots
Halloween doesn't get here until Wednesday, but don't tell that to Chicago's restaurant community, which has events planned Friday through the 31st. Here are a few of the most intriguing options.
Bar Umbriago. Halloween party with a DJ will take place...Tags: Nellcote, Lifestyle and Leisure, Animal, Restaurants, Frontera Grill
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It all started with a walnut pesto sauce
April Bloomfield looks like a cop. Her chin juts. Her eyes assess. She's quiet, short, compact, her manner direct and unfussy. Though there is a compelling argument that Bloomfield has done more in the past decade to change the way we eat than any other...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Breads, Chicago Restaurants, Walnuts, Restaurants
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Go alfresco
Summer's here, and the time is right for eating in the street. Or near the street. Or in a bottle-service cabana high above the street.
Chicagoans love outdoor-dining season, all the more so because of its short duration. There are precious few days in...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Arts and Culture, Music, Lifestyle and Leisure, Greektown
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Stargazing: Phil Vettel handicaps Michelin-star winners
As the second Michelin Guide for Chicago prepares to hit bookstores next week, one thing is for sure: There will be change.
There has to be. Among the 23 restaurants that received one or more stars, Sixteen (one star) saw chef Frank Brunacci depart,...Tags: Next (restaurant), Seasons Restaurant, NoMI, Dining and Drinking, L2O
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Carbo-loading
As I exited Balena a week or so ago, a passing stranger stopped me.
"Good restaurant?" he asked, jerking his head toward the door. I nodded enthusiastically.
"Great pizzas," I said.
And in that split-second, I fear I gave Balena, which opened two...Tags: Breads, Pistachios, Pasta, Chicago Tribune Columnists, Lemons
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Hotel Lincoln to feature rooftop lounge and coffee shop
For RedEyeThere are plenty of rooftop lounges in the city, but it’s hard to find one where you can take in the sights from a distance. When it opens June 1, Hotel Lincoln’s rooftop bar and small plates restaurant (1816 N. Clark St.) will look out over...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Lifestyle and Leisure, David Mamet, Restaurants, Girl and the Goat
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C'est la Vie?
The fact that chef Paul Virant and I share the same monogram shouldn't confuse anybody, although years back the chef sent me a letter he received from some luckless job applicant who, instead of writing "Paul Virant" in the salutation, used my name...Tags: CLTV, Lifestyle and Leisure, Tomatoes, Tavernita, Vie
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Summer eating list
I don't know if teachers still do this, but at the end of each school year, I was handed a summer reading list, a sheet of required and optional books that would prepare students for the coming school year. (I still owe a measure of revenge to the teacher...Tags: Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Stephanie Izard, Seasons Restaurant, Japan, Bars and Clubs
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Phil Vettel recommends
Depending on your perspective, this year's Super Bowl is an intriguing battle between two fascinating opponents, or a who-cares clash between an annoying East Coast team and a slightly less-annoying East Coast team (I'll leave it to you to decide which is...Tags: Lifestyle and Leisure, Henri, Football, Vie, Credit and Debt
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