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City Provisions Farm Dinner
Chicago Bites Podcast #150

Chef Cleetus Friedman aims to enlighten, educate, and entertain guests of his farm tours/dining feasts, so we attended his recent outing to Rushing Waters Trout Farm in Palmyra, Wisconsin to see. Wow! We can’t say enough good things about this experience, but we try our best in the space of this podcast. [...]

Tank Sushi
For neighborhood sushi

Popped into Tank Sushi in Lincoln Square last week for a casual lunch with @geg5150. Tank is on Lincoln Avenue near the Old Town School of Folk Music, so there’s a lot of foot traffic in addition to the delivery trucks, buses and overall business of the street. I was surprised, given all [...]

Patio Dining – What do you look for?

The weather in Chicago has finally started to catch up to the calendar, and people are moving out of the dining room and onto the city’s sidewalks. Of course, not all outdoor dining situations are created equal. We feel you should look for a few things before sitting down to eat:

Does the restaurant [...]

Dorado Restaurant
Chicago Bites Podcast #143

I was talking on my cell phone on the train recently, and when I hung up, this guy came up to me with a shy, kind smile. “Excuse me, but do you run a podcast called Chicago Bites?”
That’s how I met our podcast fan, Brett. He actually recognized my voice! I couldn’t believe it. It [...]

Los Nopales
Cinco de Mayo

I was in the mood for a little Mexican food on Cinco de Mayo, so I had lunch today at Los Nopales in Lincoln Square with a like-minded friend. We arrived at 11:30 to an empty restaurant, but still had to wait ten minutes for menus. It was another ten minutes before the [...]