Results tagged “crabhouse”

The November 10 dinner at Bonsoiree sponsored by the International Wine and Food Society's Northern Illinois Chapter we listed a few weeks back is now sold out. Shaw's Crab House will be serving Nantucket Cape Scallops beginning this month. The highly regarded scallops are only available for a limited time. Cyrano's Bistrot has just added a early bird/pre-theatre fixed price special for autumn. enjoy an appetizer and entree or entree and dessert for only...

Before we go to the listings, we want to bid farewell to the Tribune's Kevin Pang, who's heading over to the Tempo section. But he leaves the food beat with a profile of Peter Engler, the city's foremost expert on mother-in-law sandwiches, street food and other south side cheap eats. Shaw's Crab House concludes this year's edition of their "Royster with the Oyster" festival with their annual tent party at their Hubbard Street location tonight....

Although they made the announcement weeks ago via press release, most of us are just now coming around to the news that local fine wine auction house Hart Davis Hart has hired Tru sommelier Scott Tyree. This is something of a coup in fine dining and fine wine circles. While he was at Tru, Tyree earned "best sommelier" awards in 2004 and 2006 at the Jean Banchet awards. Tru's wine inventory under Tyree was also awarded with Wine Spectator magazine's "Grand Award for Outstanding Restaurant Wine Lists" for the past three years (2004-2006). In 2004 Tyree was listed by Esquire magazine as one of the country's best sommeliers.

No repartee this week, all business. - We've received e-mails from concerned people and had to check it out for ourselves, and it looks as though Cereality at 110 South Wacker has closed down, only a couple years after Chicagoist (among other media) made a big fuss about its opening. There's even a "For Rent" sign in its front window. This kind of reaffirms our faith in the human race; if people won't pay $4.50...

When Shaw's Crab House invited us by to try their new Yukon River King Salmon last week, to say we were skeptical would be an understatement. Salmon has simply stopped wowing us, mostly because the majority of salmon served in restaurants and in stores today is farm-raised. Farm-raised salmon is inferior to wild salmon in nearly every category, most notably in flavor and texture.

In this special Mother's Day edition of YFFB, we'll help you find a way to say "I love you" even if you have been the sort of child this year that your mother never wished she had. We kid, we kid. We know Chicagoist readers know how to treat their respective moms right. Say It With: ... an e-card. Whenever we come across anything with an e-card it reminds us of the early days of...

Like snowflakes, no two weiss beers are alike. Some of us like the clean flavor of Paulaner, some the sweet palate of an Ayinger, still others prefer the slightly sour taste of a Tucher. For every thick, hearty Hacker Pschorr there's an equally flavorful, but less heavy Erdinger, the only other weiss beer - until today - to earn "BotW" honors.

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