It’s easy to complain about Chicago. Our winters are never-ending, and despite our Second City nickname, we’ve been the front-runner for “the rattiest city in the US” every year for almost a decade. But any time you consider moving to a city with less rodent neighbors or where it’s always shorts season, go to one of these restaurants. Full of charm, nostalgia, and great food, these places make Chicago easy to love again—and they couldn’t exist anywhere else.No rating: This is a restaurant we want to re-visit before rating, or it’s a coffee shop, bar, or dessert shop. We only…

At this time of year, tomatoes are not too hard, not too soft — at peak ripeness. For the Nob Hill wine bar El Lopo, this Goldilocks period is celebrated with 30 pounds of tomatoes and a crowd of people ready to get messy.For the second consecutive year, El Lopo has brought a taste of Spain to San Francisco with its very own Tomatopia, inspired by La Tomatina, held annually in the city of Buñol. Though the Spanish festival has drawn more than 40,000 people, compared with El Lopo’s 10, participants in Thursday evening’s Tomatopia say they had just as…

Here’s a look at this week’s hottest culinary happenings:Monday, September 2Labor Day Dining Deals From Monday brunches to all-day happy hour specials, plus oysters, Korean bbq, margaritas and more, check out our 2024 Houston Labor Day Dining Guide to find the best dining deals in Houston this Labor Day.Tuesday, September 3Tour de France at Brasserie 19 Brasserie 19, 1962 West Gray, invites guests to explore the flavors of France with a limited menu series by chef Michael Hoffman. The first regional menu is a tribute to the vibrant coastal cities of Marseille and Nice, debuting on Tuesday, September 3 and…

Highest-rated fine dining restaurants in Tucson by diners Fine dining in the U.S. isn’t what it used to be. Many customers are no longer interested in classic white tablecloths and 16-ounce New York strips; instead, it’s about cutting-edge culinary experiences. Although steakhouses have defined fine dining in America since the 19th century, that started to change in the mid-1990s. Elite chefs like Thomas Keller at the French Laundry unearthed a whole different kind of tasting experience (with 40 courses), and a new age of fine dining was born. Soon, prix fixe meals—a French style of serving with a set menu—became…

NEW YORK — Shake Shack, the popular fast-food chain known for its hamburgers, fries and milkshakes, is closing nine underperforming locations nationwide, including one in Ohio, reports say.Nation’s Restaurant News reports the chain made a filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission identifying the underperforming company-owned locations in California, Ohio, and Texas. The filings said the problems were “in part due to changes in the trade area and, in some cases, are negatively impacting other Shacks within their proximity by cannibalizing sales.”The Shake Shack in the Polaris Fashion Place in Columbus is one of the locations slated to close by…

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There are over a dozen new food items being offered in 2024. COLUMBIA, S.C. — The South Carolina State Fair opens at the fairgrounds on Rosewood Drive in Columbia on October 9. This year, folks will find almost a dozen new food items to temp your taste buds, before and after you ride those rides. What’s the new Fair fare? Here’s a list of new foods and concessionaires: New concessionaires: Bubblelicious will be serving sweet-and-savory items such as Das Chicken and Waffle and the Mac Pop Waffle, along with their signature BTG (Black Thanksgiving) — deep fried turkey wings and…

When former elementary school teacher Mike Graham started a lemonade stand in 2018, his only goal was to raise money for his new after-school program, Energy Boys. With a motto of “going from negative to positive,” Graham’s program mentored boys cast off as having too much energy by turning them into 5K runners.   “In order to get them running shoes, I would have to sell lemonade,” Graham said. “Oh my goodness, the people loved the lemonade so much that after COVID I started making it again, and then I started selling at a market.”  Now, Graham finds himself selling his…

A smash burger pop-up that later transformed into full-fledged restaurant is in the final stages of putting together its second location.Bub’s Burgers announced Tuesday that it’s just days away from opening its “Grab & Go” Uptown New Orleans location, housed at 5031 Freret St.Starting Sept. 6, Bub’s hit smash burger patties will be hitting the grill, ready to serve the hungry masses that descend upon Freret. One of Bub’s founding partners, Tristan Moreau, told The Times-Picayune that this location’s menu will be familiar to the patrons of the Mid-City location, but slightly condensed. “It’ll be quick, takeout, affordable — that’s our thing,”…

Discount grocery operator Yellow Banana pitched itself to city officials as a “business with a purpose,” operating 38 stores nationwide. And in return, they negotiated a multimillion-dollar deal to refurbish and reopen six Chicago Save A Lot stores within two years in neighborhoods lacking access to affordable and fresh foods.Yellow Banana promised to do better than the previous Save A Lot operators, criticizing them in 2022 for abandoning neighborhoods with “virtually no heads-up to the community.” And yet Yellow Banana itself has since shrunk to just one open store, the Chicago Sun-Times has found.During the past two years of blown…