The Food Guy

A Bronzeville cake shop is creating a buzz, regularly causing long lines before opening. It was a pandemic project that forced the owner to shrink the size of her bundt cakes, and now they fly out the door the day they’re made. Bundt cakes are pretty large, and during the pandemic, people wanted comfort, but not so much cake...

The world’s greatest coffee typically comes from a narrow band around the equator. Guatemala, Colombia and Ethiopia are all significant growing regions.

They’re the kinds of places you take out-of-towners, to really show off your city. Whenever I have colleagues or chefs in town, I always take them to a place that’s been in the West Loop since before the West Loop was cool.

As immigrants from India and Pakistan arrived in Chicago in the 1960s and 1970s, they typically made their way to West Rogers Park, along Devon Avenue.

There are quite a few new restaurants opening in the city as of late, but NBC 5’s Food Guy Steve Dolinsky is particularly fond of a new one in West Town. It’s run by a couple of industry veterans who’ve created the kind of restaurant they’ve always wanted to visit themselves. Steve Dolinsky joining us tonight with the story....

Friday is National Pizza Day, and NBC Chicago’s Steve Dolinsky shares the story of how a suburban pizzeria owes its success to an African American cook from Mississippi.