Hole in the Wall: Charming, Italian Dining
Walk into Francesco’s Hole in the Wall, in Northbrook, and you might hear the crooning of Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett on the speakers. Look around, and you’ll…
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Walk into Francesco’s Hole in the Wall, in Northbrook, and you might hear the crooning of Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra or Tony Bennett on the speakers. Look around, and you’ll…
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by Simon Murray •
The denizens of O’Neil’s 500-gallon salt-water tank have seen it all. Excited little hands pointing and prodding at the glass. Chefs diligently working behind an exposed kitchen, putting together plate…
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Arlene Bronstein couldn’t believe her bad luck. She had been searching all over for “Beautiful Buffets”—a cookbook she edited 25 years ago in collaboration with fashion retailer Cookie Stagman—as a gift…
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Wilmette is a long way away from Brooklyn. But with the unveiling of the Brooklyn-style bistro on Green Bay Road, Firefly Kitchen, it might as well be home to a…
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They say the best things in life come in threes. Omne trium perfectum — which roughly translated means “everything that comes in threes is perfect” — says as much. Think…
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Whitefish being used as a substitute for the traditional rustic pairing of salmon and lentils du Puy? Mon dieu! Please excuse my French, but that came as quite a shock…
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“I was born and raised in the kitchen, to be honest with you,” says Josh Keating, seated at the bar of Little Ricky’s Rib Joint in Winnetka. The neighborhood eatery…
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It’s the house that Isaac built — the somewhat irreconcilable but distinctly American idea of a Jewish-Mexican deli. From dishwasher to fry cook to deli clerk to restaurateur, it’s the…
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Before The Happ Inn Bar & Grill in Northfield became a neighborhood staple it was farmland — and before it became farmland it was a swamp. At the time, John…
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There is a sign on the way to the kitchen of the Wilmette Chop House that purports to break down the culinary hierarchy into one tyrannical, easy-to-digest maxim. “The chef…
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