The Ravinia Festival’s 2025 season, announced Thursday, balances ambitious new initiatives — like a weekend-long collaboration with famous chefs — within a slightly compressed timeline.
New for the winner this year, alongside a $250,000 cash prize, is the opportunity to present at the James Beard Restaurant and Chef Awards in Chicago on June 16.
Celebrity chef Giada De Laurentiis has partnered with Hollywood casinos to launch Italian restaurants at two suburban Chicago casinos.
The concert promoter behind the band’s final show at Soldier Field is behind a new dining and music spot dedicated to all things Grateful Dead.
Here are the 30 best corned beef sandwiches offered in and around Chicago.
Stefania Marzelia’s history as a barista inspired her to start Sips, a business that makes syrups with minimal ingredients for coffee and other foods.
These fish fries, pepper and egg sandwiches and seafood dinners are so good, you might want to stop in even if you’re not forgoing beef for Lent.
Matteson resident and foodie Jeremy Joyce launched Black People Eats in 2017, and grew it to more than 400,000 followers.
Among the six honorees from across the country is the oldest Black-owned barbecue restaurant in Chicago, Lem’s Bar-B-Q.
As much as I love a double-digit-step recipe with more ingredients than I can count on my two hands (looking at you, Beef Wellington), that’s not realistic for every night (let alone weekly!). Sometimes you just need a simple recipe that calls for only a few ingredients and hardly any prep. And for those nights, I turn to my three-ingredient ground pork stir-fry (which comes together even faster than deciding on your DoorDash order!)