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Happy Mother’s Day!
What a better way to celebrate Mother’s Day weekend than perusing Chicago’s Green City Market, finally reopened for the 2012 season? (Technically it opened May 5, but this weekend marked my first...
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Wicker Park’s New Taco Spot
I was so happy to hear about a new taco shop in Wicker Park. After all, Big Star is great, but the scene can be a bit much sometimes. Enter: Antique Taco. Photo is courtesy of Antique Taco’s site,...
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First Taste: Kai Zan
This teeny tiny (emphasis on tiny) sushi spot west of Western on Chicago Ave. is a gem. Yes, you will have to spend $15 on a cab getting there from downtown, but it is well worth the distance for the...
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City Provisions (and Much More)
City Provisions is not new to me, but its North Center location makes it a bit of a hike for anyone who works downtown. That means: It might be new to YOU! Plus, it has received a lot of praise and...
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Wine In Chicago Starbucks? It’s Here.
Wine glasses, made of actual glass in Starbucks? Yes, it’s true. While I know we’re not the only ones to have wine in Starbucks (some test markets are getting it and from my research the Pacific...
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First Taste: Carriage House, Chicago
Brought to you from the brains behind The Bedford, Carriage House is the freshest new country kitchen in Wicker Park. Tucked in to the north side of the busy Division Corridor between Bangers and Lace...
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First Taste: Trenchermen…and women
Trenchermen is a strange and wonderful hybrid kind of restaurant. The location is completely misleading as it is tucked into the six corners of Damen/Milwaukee/North Ave. in Bucktown/Wicker Park. But...
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Acai Bowls in Chicago—They Do Exist (At Home)
Well, I stand corrected. I previously wrote after a trip to California that acai bowls were nowhere to be found in Chicago. Little did I know, they are here, they’re just DIY. Full disclosure,...
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KP Travels: Chicago Highlights, January 2014
What would a Chicago trip be without a proper sampling of new restaurants as well as some tried-and-true family favorites? Despite the lovely 10-degree weather we had in early January, accompanied by...
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Wine…it’s Coming to a Starbucks Near You!
Back in August 2012, I wrote about how Starbucks was rolling out a pilot program to add an evening menu to a handful of its locations, including one of my old Starbucks locations in Chicago at...
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