Dining

Kathy Vega Hardy, owner of Taste of the Philippines in West Loop, joins ‘Chicago Today’ to introduce three Filipino dishes for everyone to try: longanisa, chicken adobo, and ube cheesecake and cookies.

Looking for romantic restaurants for Valentine’s Day? We have five recommendations for some of the best restaurants in Chicago.

2d Restaurant, a new Lakeview restaurant and café, fully decorated with two-dimensional illusion art is opening this month. Owners Kevin Yu and Vanessa Thanh Vu discuss how their love for ‘Emily in Paris’ and Godzilla inspired them to create this unique space.

With a lot of restaurants bringing back the at-home meal and drink kits, Ben Goodnick, the executive chef at Summer House Santa Monica, discusses the beloved Chicago restaurant’s various at-home selections.

Hosts of ’77 Flavors of Chicago,’ Sara Faddah and Dario Durham, discuss the hit foodie podcast and share some of their favorite restaurants in Chicago neighborhoods.

Marlon Tan, the co-owner at the Wicker Park Restaurant, recommends some of the most popular menu items at Cebu including lumpia, BBQ pork Skewers, and Cebu lechon.

Michelin-starred chef, Danny Grant, shares some of the most popular dishes at his Wicker Park hotspot, etta.

With the Chicago dining scene coming back, ‘Top Chef’ season 15 winner Joe Flamm debuts a Croatian-Italian restaurant, ‘Rose Mary,’ in Fulton Market.

Eleven Madison Park is considered one of the finest restaurants in both New York City and the world — and starting next month, it will also be completely meatless and almost entirely vegan.

After takeout orders increased during the pandemic, many restaurants are now facing a shortage of ketchup packets, leaving customers, and their food, dry.

Chicago Black Restaurant Week began Sunday with more than one hundred participating restaurants. Chicago Black Restaurant Week was designed to celebrate food and beverage businesses owned by Black people in the Chicago area and surrounding suburbs. 2021 marks its sixth year and the annual event is taking place for two weeks until Feb. 21. In 2015, founder Lauran Smith decided…

The coronavirus pandemic has been incredibly damaging for the restaurant industry in the United States: The National Restaurant Association estimates that at least 17% of the country’s food service establishments have already shuttered, with 10,000 restaurants having closed their doors in just the past three months.

Japanese researchers used a supercomputer to examine how particles spread when sitting at a table.

Small businesses have struggled mightily during the pandemic. In the series “Rebound,” small business owners documented their struggles during the pandemic. Now, they have come together to discuss what they learned over the past six months.

A pop-up restaurant from the group behind Chicago’s most awarded restaurant became the latest to temporarily close its doors after a staffer tested positive for coronavirus. Acclaimed chef Grant Achatz announced Saturday that the Alinea in Residence rooftop pop-up was closed Friday after an employee tested positive for coronavirus. “The employee had not worked in days due to scheduling...

Another Chicago restaurant on the city’s North Side has temporarily closed after announcing an employee tested positive for coronavirus over the Fourth of July holiday weekend. Replay Beer & Bourbon in the city’s Andersonville neighborhood said a member of their waitstaff notified them Saturday night that they had tested positive for the virus despite showing no symptoms. The employee...

We asked infection prevention experts from Northwestern Medicine to weigh in on some questions. These answers are from nurse Heather Voss, a program director of epidemiology and infection prevention at Northwestern Medicine, as well as her colleagues in infection prevention and infectious disease specialist Dr. Irfan Hafiz.

Two Chicago restaurants have closed their doors following coronavirus exposure as dining resumed in limited fashion in the city during the pandemic. Fork in the city’s Lincoln Square neighborhood became the latest to shut its doors temporarily, announcing Monday that the restaurant “had exposure to Covid-19.” “The safety of our guests and staff is our top priority so out...

Starting next Friday, restaurants across Chicago will be able to open for indoor dining with some restrictions. NBC 5’s Trina Orlando reports.