The lobster salad with melted leek aioli, and “millions of herbs” ($34) was a great starting point into the meal. The melted ...

Nora McConnell-Johnson can recall the exact day when she came up with the idea to open a Chicago women’s sports bar. It was October 17, 2021, and she was watching game four of the WNBA finals — the ...

Jeffy Mai was the Associate Editor for Eater’s Midwest region, and has been covering Chicago’s dining scene for over a decade. In our Dining Reports, we share a firsthand perspective of a recent ...

Patrice Yursik is a writer and editor based in Chicago. She specializes in covering beauty, hair, makeup, pop culture, travel, food, and drinks. Right between breakfast and somewhere before happy hour ...

When former Dove’s Luncheonette and Galit chef de cuisine Thomas Carlin was looking for a home in Evanston with his wife, Rachel Canfora-Carlin, the property that really caught his eye was Coast Sushi ...

Naomi Waxman is the former reporter for Eater Chicago and an award-winning journalist who covers restaurants, bars, pop-ups. By and large, there’s no need to sell Chicagoans on the pleasures of Lake ...

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Fall in Chicago always signals change, most notably the weather. With a dining scene that rivals any major city in the world, there’s bound to be transformation when it comes to restaurants, too. For ...

While for many of us dry chicken breasts are a rite of poultry passage, brothers Oliver and Nicolas Poilevey have a different tale to tell. Theirs is one of vacations filled with roadside rotisserie ...

Ashok Selvam is the former James Beard Award-winning regional editor for Eater’s Midwest region, in charge of coverage in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities. He’s a native Chicagoan and had been ...

Ashok Selvam is the former James Beard Award-winning regional editor for Eater’s Midwest region, in charge of coverage in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities. He’s a native Chicagoan and had been ...

Chef Jacob Potashnick of the highly ambitious Ukrainian Village restaurant Feld brought home Chicago’s lone James Beard Award for 2026. Chef Bailey Sullivan from Chicago Italian restaurant Monteverde ...