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[Updated] L.A. pastry chef Sally Camacho gets top chef nod

2012-06-05 16:33:16

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Kahan, Bayless head Taste's Chef du Jour lineup

2013-05-13 08:36:00

Paul Kahan, who received the James Beard Foundation's Outstanding Chef award last week, and Rick Bayless, who won his Outstanding Chef award in 1991 (the first Chicago chef so honored), will head the Mazda6 Celebrity Chef du Jour lineup at Taste of...

Taste of Chicago reveals lineup for Celebrity Chef du Jour

2013-05-14 10:00:00

The Taste of Chicago is bringing back its Celebrity Chef du Jour series with a fresh line-up of big-name local chefs. Featured chefs for the fine-dining experience include Rick Bayless, Carrie Nahabedian, Giuseppe Tentori, Gale Gand, The Hearty Boys and...

Review: Brindille

2013-05-09 00:00:00

Review: Brindille 534 N. Clark St. 312-595-1616 Rating: !!! 1/2 (out of 4) Heating up Chef Carrie Nahabedian already has a nice restaurant. Naha, her Mediterranean-inspired contemporary American spot in River North, has netted her plenty of awards since...

Naha's Restaurant Week menu tough to top

2013-02-03 13:55:00

Nobody does Restaurant Week like Naha does. Considering that more than 250 restaurants participate, offering multi-course lunches for $22 and dinners for $33 and/or $44, that's no idle statement. While most restaurants' Restaurant Week menus are...

Rare treats

2012-11-29 00:00:00

Rodrick Markus reached for the top shelf of a metal cabinet at the back of his office. "I know, I know, I know," he said to himself. His fingers worked across a row of jars and stopped at a tall glass cylinder. I had asked him about rare ingredients. Rare...

Phil Vettel recommends

2013-01-17 00:00:00

The sixth Chicago Restaurant Week runs Feb. 1-10 (and, if history is any indication, for a few days longer). First-time participants Balsan, bellyQ, Frontier and Nellcote join a virtual Who's Who of Chicago dining rooms, more than 250 restaurants offering...

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...

Let's break out the old crystal ball

2012-11-08 00:00:00

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...

CEO found a home here, keeps close ties to native Puerto Rico

2012-09-24 00:00:00

Roberto Herencia occasionally rides to work on one of the four Harley-Davidson motorcycles he keeps in his "man cave," a Glenview storage facility equipped with a red couch, a TV and a 6-foot lucha libre mask, an icon of Mexican wrestling. �� When headed...

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...

Paul Bocuse is not dead

2012-06-04 14:11:00

Paul is not dead. The last time I wrote that sentence, it was 1969 and we were discussing the Beatles. Today, the subject of the Paul-is-dead rumor, which first appeared on the Internet on Sunday, is legendary French�chef Paul Bocuse. Word appeared on...

Award-winning chef Carrie Nahabedian has opened a second restaurant, (French for "branch") just steps away from her existing restaurant Naha.

2013-04-23 10:17:00

Outstanding Restaurant, Naha

2013-02-26 15:00:37

Kobe Beef brisket with goat cheese at Naha, one of the many restaurants participating in Chicago Restaurant Week, which runs Feb. 1-10.

2013-01-16 17:04:08