It's mid-July which means that many tastings and fixed price dinner events have a Bastille Day theme. Here are a few of note Whole Foods Lakeview (3300 N. Ashland), one of the WFs not shut down with a rodent infestation, is hosting a tasting of seleced wines from local distributor Cream Wine Company from 4-7 p.m. this afternoon. Both Lush Wine and Spirits locations (1257 S. Halsted and 2232 W. Roscoe) are hopping on Bastille......

Graham Elliot Bowles' eponymous restaurant (217 W. Huron) had a soft BYOB opening over the weekend. Mike Nagrant attended. So did we (bypassing a planned trip to Lincoln Square Mayfest) and HOLY SHITE we can't return fast enough. If what we ate was an indication of what Bowles has in store, this will easily become the most sought after reservation since Art Smith opened Table Fifty-Two last year, except without Oprah's army having been......

Sweetbreads are one of the best misnomers in cuisine. Neither sweet nor a bread product, a sweetbread is either the pancreas (stomach sweetbread or noix in French) or thymus gland (throat sweetbread or gorge in French) of an animal, typically lamb or a calf. If that alone turned you off of sweetbreads, the lengthy preparation to remove any blood from the tissue, off-tasting fat and gristle won't exactly have your mouth watering. But their delicate......