At a time when most restaurants come and go with the transience of college hoops stars—one year and they’re often done—you can’t help but marvel at the staying power of…
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Playing With Fire
Sometimes, the less you know about the inner workings of a hotel restaurant the better. Over the years, I’ve peppered hotel servers with questions about the provenance of some of…
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Prime Time
The difference between Chicago Prime Steakhouse in Schaumburg and just about every other beef-and-gin joint you’ve ever cut into over the years isn’t so much a particular cut of steak…
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Beyond The Iron Curtain
You can be forgiven if—for one reason or another—you’ve neglected to add the members-only Anvil Club to your “must-visit” list for 2019. Even though it’s been in existence since 1956…
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Carlos #4
There are burritos in this world, and then there are the Godzilla-sized burritos that come rolling out of the kitchen at Carlos #4 Mexican Cuisine and Seafood in Lake Zurich….
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Region Kitchen + Bar
The spacious, sprawling, and sparkling new Region Kitchen + Bar in Barrington is chef Dave Perlick’s rebuttal to that quaint old cliché that “less is more.” At a time when…
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Eat And Be Murray
Well, they did it. You can debate till the “holy cows” come home whether Harry Caray’s Italian Steakhouse fully captured the “live it up, the meter’s running” spirit of its…
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Sushi Chic
Have they finally cracked the code? For as long as there have been restaurants in Barrington—or any suburb for that matter—restaurateurs have purred poetic about exporting a distinctly urban experience…
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MAGO GRILL & CANTINA
Sometimes, what we’re all really looking for after a long day or tense week is something to smile about—a little infusion of color and flavor to gloss over an otherwise…
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Incontro A Tavola
It’s a relatively rare occurrence, but every so often—mostly when you least expect it—you encounter a meal so unexpectedly satisfying it pries open wizened, rusted-over memories from your childhood. Good…
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