Review: Harbor House Inn
That old saw that smell is 80% of taste could use an audit: it doesn’t quite account for the role imagination and projection increasingly...
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Brad Cawn
- Jun 8, 2021
- 2 min
Bites: The Burger (and the business) at Three House
A burger and restaurant concept for post-pandemic Chicago.
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Brad Cawn
- Apr 25, 2021
- 4 min
Review: Brass Heart
As Michelin awards its stars for 2021, the Uptown restaurant finds its center Brass Heart defines itself as a “post-modernist”...
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Brad Cawn
- Apr 16, 2021
- 8 min
The Future of Chicago Dining: Four Models of and for a Changing Scene
A look at emerging restaurant models that are likely to influence Chicago dining.
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Brad Cawn
- Apr 6, 2021
- 5 min
The Next Generation of Chicago Indian Restaurants Emerges
Reviews of upstarts revitalizing subcontinental cooking There was a moment there in 2019 when Chicago looked as if it was on the...
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Brad Cawn
- Mar 30, 2021
- 5 min
Towards A Working Theory On Why Food Got So Much Better In Chicago Since The Start Of The Pandemic
The undoing of the Hogsaltification of the city's restaurant scene As symbols for the possible new paradigm of dining go, my personal...
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Brad Cawn
- Mar 24, 2021
- 5 min
Unboxing the Chicago Pizza Revolution
Three shifts have revitalized the area 'za game. Where's it leading us? Pizza is having a year. At least 25 new ventures--sitdowns,...
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Brad Cawn
- Mar 23, 2021
- 3 min
A Few More Words on Ever and What Fine Dining Really Needs
The first bite I took of Curtis Duffy’s food back when he was at Avenues changed my life. Bite seems too crude a word: my mastication was...
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Brad Cawn
- Mar 15, 2021
- 8 min
Ever, Porto, and the Murky Future of the Tasting Menu
A review of the restaurants Ever and Porto, and a reflection on fine dining's emerging identity crisis post-pandemic.
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Brad Cawn
- Mar 9, 2021
- 2 min
Bites: The Shiddy Burg at Big Kids
A new diner-style burger contender emerges.
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Brad Cawn
- Feb 25, 2021
- 5 min
Things to Do On Instagram When You're Dead
A former print journalist reflects on what he's learned after two weeks on and imbibing Instagram food culture.
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Brad Cawn
- Feb 23, 2021
- 2 min
Bites: On the Sushi Bake Phenomena
A brief treatise on #sushibake
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Brad Cawn
- Feb 11, 2021
- 2 min
Bites: The Pastrami Sandwich @ Jeff and Jude's
Review of the most difficult--and best--sandwich in Chicago.
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Brad Cawn
- Feb 2, 2021
- 4 min
Does Local Restaurant Criticism Even Matter Anymore?
Ensuring that it does means understanding why it doesn't. In restaurant journalism no one can hear you welp. You can’t hear keystrokes,...
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Brad Cawn
- Jan 27, 2021
- 1 min
(Takeout) Tasting Menus in Turbulent Times: The State of the Art
Coming soon: A look at how several of Chicago Michelin-starred restaurants are negotiating multi-course menus at home--and what it means...
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