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Best Things I Ate and Drank in 2025
I hope you all have been having a great holiday season.
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The Best New(ish) Chicago Restaurants of 2025
One of the reasons I started The Hunger was so I didn’t have to write another listicle.
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Eat, Pay, Love!
A story of how food influencers are committing legal fraud
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The Ultimate Holiday Gift Guide for Hungry and Thirsty People
Stupid pop culture references, vintage Chicago and Detroit food and drink advertising signs, the worst gas station snacks…these are, in the words of…
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Tacos and Resilience
For the second time in two years I find myself at a crossroads of day job uncertainty.
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The James Beard Awards Are Broken
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Pizza City Fest Has No Sauce
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A Return to Feld
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Happy McRibsgiving
I’m a food critic with trash tastes.
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S.K.Y. Still The Limit?
An exploration of the second incarnation of Stephen Gillanders’ career-launching restaurant
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The Charms of Geriatric Beef
Familiar usually beats best.
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Started From The Bottom
According to Michelin and the NYT and the Chicago Tribune, Alinea is headed back to the bottom, but someone has to be lying...
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A Michelin-Starred Chef Aims to Build "The Best Casual Restaurant"
Plus an homage and revival of a legendary Chicago dish
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The James Beard Awards Are Broken
An extreme close-up of America's so-called "Food Oscars" from a former judge
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Rump Shaker
Sometimes Chicago’s greatest steakhouses aren’t really steakhouses at all
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The Contrast of White on White
I did something I don’t think I’ve done in probably 15 or 20 years.
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Food Delivery Roulette
A look into a potentially game-changing food app, Chicago’s hottest secret fried shrimp, and another life-changing pizza.
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Mike Nagrant, the last and former Chicago Sun-Times food critic and contributor to the James Beard-Winning Alinea cookbook writes about culture, life, food, cooking, restaurants, and food media.
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Mike Nagrant, the last and former Chicago Sun-Times food critic and contributor to the James Beard-Winning Alinea cookbook writes about culture, life, food, cooking, restaurants, and food media.
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