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From Chicago Mag's Dish: Urban Belly owner/chef Bill Kim has signed a lease to open Belly Shack, an Asian and Latin-inspired BYOB counter service restaurant at 1912 N. Western. Think Kim's Urban Belly, but focusing on sandwiches and salads without the "Really? That much for dumplings?" price tag. Kim told Dish that he plans on having menu items at Belly Shack top out at $10.

We recently visited the bright West Loop byob spot, The Grocery Bistro, and took advantage of their three course prix fixe dinner menu, choosing any shared plate, entrée, and dessert for $25. (We recommend the salmon sashimi with fried egg and caper-soy vinaigrette, lamb chops and banana bacon tiramisu). Grocery's Chef de Cuisine, Andre Christopher of Japonais and Pops for Champagne fame, recently started serving a three course lunch as well: soup/salad, sandwich, dessert, and drink for $15. Enjoy your meal while playing "guess the movie playing on the plasma TV." I won.

   

We were introduced to Sushi X via a grainy photo taken from a friend's camera phone. The beauty of the roll stood out among the noise in the picture and we had to check out the place.

There's no shortage of good Persian or Lebanese food in Albany park. Kedzie Avenue has Noon O' Kabob and the amazing Semiramis. Near the intersection of Kedzie and Lawrence sits Al-Khaymeih. This spacious restaurant offers the best of both dining worlds. Customers are treated to familiar Lebanese dishes served promptly by very attentive waiters who cleared out empty plates as soon as they saw them, kept the pita and hummous coming and uncorked our bottles of wine as we pulled them out (Al-Khaymeih is BYOB).

From Crain's comes word that Le Lan Executive chef Bill Kim is leaving behind the river North French-Vietnamese outpost to open a noodle shop/casual eatery in Logan Square.

We'd been hearing rumors recently that Schwa was going to reopen, but didn't want to get our hopes up to much before something was confirmed. And confirmed it now is. Michael Carlson's BYOB spot will be reopening in early 2008, the end of this month being the earliest.