Food Reviews & Stories Formerly a long-vacant dry-cleaners, this high-ceilinged and light-filled room feels less like a full-blown bakery than it does a homey coffeehouse where one of the owners (Gretchen Glatte) just hap   More

Food Reviews & Stories Whiskey Soda Lounge opened in December 2009 as a place to grab a drink during the inevitable 45-minute wait at Pok Pok, but it quickly became that little brother that outshines its older siblings. L   More

Food Reviews & Stories There’s a reason Chicago has a high rate of obesity: the hot dogs are addictive. Wayne’s Red Hot offers the most authentic Chicago dogs this side of Wrigley, and the small MLK eatery—a haven f   More

Food Reviews & Stories Tucked behind (and partially within) Bread and Ink Cafe, Waffle Window is so much more than a griddlecake-dispensing fenestration. The Liège-style waffles themselves aren’t huge, but are cakey a   More

Food Reviews & Stories Dwayne Beliakoff’s serially delayed “fast slow food” restaurant has finally opened in a modernist glass box in Director Park on the South Park Blocks, just adjacent to a strangely gonadal foun   More

Food Reviews & Stories Tuk Tuk, named for the three-wheeled rickshaws of Thailand, serves up colossal portions of Thai-American dishes at recession-friendly prices. Start out with a Thai iced tea or coffee ($2) and “Ro   More

Food Reviews & Stories “Healthy Thai Cuisine,” the menu claims, with “healthy cuisine” apparently being defined against food that can literally break into your house and strangle you while you sleep. The oil slick   More

Food Reviews & Stories This is Italy in a shoebox, people. Born as a takeout pit stop, Taste Unique’s tiny Division Street storefront is dominated by a giant chalkboard full of daily offerings of housemade soups and sau   More

Food Reviews & Stories Want to get a measure of a Lebanese restaurant? Order its veggie mezza ($12). The traditional assortment of hummus, baba ghanouj, falafel, grape leaves and tabbouleh is as good a metric as any in de   More

Food Reviews & Stories For a neighborhood in proximity to a college, Woodstock falls short in the restaurant department. Reedies looking to do better than Delta Cafe have to hoof it all the way up to Southeast 48th Avenue   More