Mindy's HotChocolate

Matt Molina, Wolfgang Puck win James Beard awards

2012-05-08 16:34:00

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James Beard Foundation announces award finalists: L.A. chefs on the short list

2011-03-21 16:33:05

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Thursday: Eat. Drink. Do.

2013-05-15 09:36:00

EAT Whole Hog Beer Dinner Burger Bar 1578 N. Clybourn Ave. 312-255-0055 Kick off Chicago Craft Beer Week with a five-course pork dinner featuring Wild Onion Brewing Co. pairings including bacon-wrapped spicy sausage lollipops with Kainz Brau...

Fat Rice: Pedigree not required

2013-04-04 00:00:00

Adrienne Lo and Abraham Conlon, the proprietors of the hugely popular new Chinese-Portuguese restaurant Fat Rice in Logan Square, are interesting looking, the kind of couple you see around town and wonder what their deal is. I've seen them around for...

Jared Rouben to leave Goose Island brewpub for his own food-friendly brewery

2013-01-03 00:00:00

Jared Rouben seems to spend just as much time at the farmers market as he does at Goose Island's Clybourn brewpub, where he has been a brewer for four years. So it's not much of a surprise that the new brewery he plans to launch will focus on what he...

Hot buttered rum

2012-12-27 00:00:00

Hot buttered rum: It's that time of year when archaic hot cocktails saturate beverage menus everywhere. But at Mindy's Hot Chocolate in Bucktown, beverage director Alex Gara pulls off a neat trick — twisting a timeless recipe by upping the...

An excuse to dine in your jammies

2012-12-27 00:00:00

Here's a mini tradition that I wish would catch on in a big way: New Year's Day pajama brunch. There's nothing quite so entertaining as sitting down to brunch in a room full of nominal adults wearing brightly colored flannel. Factor in the condition in...

Charlie Trotter's pressure cooker

2012-08-29 03:00:00

Everyone knows Charlie Trotter as the chef of Charlie Trotter's. It's his name, his restaurant, and he's the boss. But that title “chef” has many meanings, and Trotter has embodied just about all of them during his 25 years at Charlie Trotter'...

All but the drawl

2012-11-15 00:00:00

From one end of the United States to the other, Southern cooking is hot. And while Chicago doesn't abound with Southern dining options, restaurants like Big Jones, Table Fifty-Two and The Southern — to say nothing of our growing crop of Southern-...

Charlie Trotter preaches excellence to the extreme

2012-08-28 03:00:00

Graham Elliot was an aspiring young cook in the late '90s carrying steaks to a party of 20 in the Charlie Trotter's Studio Kitchen when the restaurant's brilliant, mercurial owner stopped him in the hallway and grabbed one of the pieces of meat. "He...

Charlie Trotter gets ready to hang it up

2012-08-30 03:00:00

Charlie Trotter says he first thought of closing his namesake restaurant after his plane sat on the tarmac at LaGuardia Airport on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. “I realized really how fragile the world is,” he reflects. “I love what...

Red Door, XRT team up for Lobster Bash

2012-07-19 15:19:00

In celebration of 93XRT's 40th anniversary, Chef Troy Graves of Red Door and XRT's Lin Brehmer will host the Lobster Bash on July 31. Red Door, 2118 N. Damen Ave. in Bucktown, will host the event--from 6:30 to 10� p.m.--which will feature a group of...

MINDY'S HOT CHOCOLATE, 1747 N. Damen Ave.; 773-489-1747 What they came up with: "I started to go crazy with this," chef Mindy Segal said, presenting us with a plate of cookies, each assigned a different color Peep. "I mean, I put hair on them.

2011-04-20 00:00:00