June 2, 2008
A friend of mine insisted I come with her to her new favorite restaurant, located in the Northern outskirts of Chicago, called: Amitabul. Now, it usually doesn’t take much convincing for me to try out a new restaurant so of course I didn’t put up much of a fight. But after finding out the restaurant was Vegan Korean cuisine, I knew hardly what to expect. I’ve never had Korean food before, and I really don’t know enough about Korean cuisine to filter out what would or would not be classified as Vegan (except maybe the obvious: Korean barbecue!) But I was up for anything.
So I went in with no expectations and came out well fed, more educated, and unbelievably impressed.
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April 9, 2008
Ever want to cook certain dishes you eat out at restaurants at home? Well, over at Recipe4Living, we have a whole bunch of recipes that can help you do just that! We have recipes from Olive Garden, TGI Friday’s, Bennigan’s…a whole bunch of restaurants!
So check out our Top 50 Restaurant Recipes!
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March 3, 2008
America’s menus are dictated by the professional chefs of today’s restaurants. But to find out what the future has in store, we must look to the younger generations, or in this case: the culinary students.
The International Culinary Schools at the Art Institutes, the country’s largest culinary program, conducted a survey to find out what types of cuisine its students plan to include in their future repertoires.
And here are the results…
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February 29, 2008
Today marks the end of Chicago’s very first restaurant week. Was it a success? Well as you know, the answer can never be simple as a “yes” or a “no”.
To define success in this matter you need to take into account a number of perspectives: that from the restaurateurs and restaurant employees, that from the city, and that from the patrons. I’ll gladly speak from the terms of a patron, but all other measures, I simply cannot address.
My definition of success, as a patron, is as follows:
Was I able and encouraged to experience a restaurant I have never tried before?
Was I able to experience this or these restaurants at a subsidized cost?
The very idea behind restaurant week is trying something new. The restaurants gain exposure, and the patrons gain experience. Everyone wins, if you ask me.
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Kiki’s Bistro is a quaint, casual bistro that is highly recommended among my peers and Chicago restaurant reviews. Luckily they were a participating restaurant in Chicago’s Restaurant Week so I was able to sample some of their tasty and classically French cuisine.
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February 26, 2008
While the logo above may contradict the following, this isn’t so much a restaurant review as a review of tapas in general. The picture I really wanted to start with would have been something that could capture both the diversity and the amount of food we piled onto our table and into our stomachs the night we went to Cafe Iberico. But since I had no such luck at capturing this perfect picture, I’ll run through our feast of feasts dish by dish.
Cafe Iberico greeted us with massive crowds and a 1 hour and 30 minute wait. Granted it was a Saturday night, but if that doesn’t indicate a restaurant’s popularity, I don’t know what would. And let me tell you, people weren’t turning away either. They just kept on piling in.
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