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Monday night we attended LTHForum's fifth annual Great Neighborhood Restaurants Awards dinner at Marie's Pizza and Liquors in the wunnerful Mayfair neighborhood, itself a previous winner of a GNR. 13 restaurants, 1 bar and 4 bakeries were added to LTH's already expansive list of GNR recipients; you can download their pocket guide here.

28 restaurants made the cut for LTHForum's 2008 Great Neighborhood Restaurant Awards. Among the winner, Chicagoist favorites Top Notch Beefburger, Jimmy's Red Hots, the Maxwell Street Market and the Violet Hour. The full list is available at LTH forum. [LTHforum GNR]

LTHForum's now accepting nominations for the 2008 Great Neighborhood Restaurants Awards. It's been a while since we've browsed the forums over there.

There's a fun little story that's been making it's way around the internet over the past few days. Blogger Rob Donaghue went to hear bigtime Chicagoist crush Anthony Bourdain speak last week in New York. Bourdain, ever-wry, suggested that the best way to find a great restaurant in today's internet savvy age, is not to read Zagat or Michelin guides, but rather, to provoke the nerds. He writes, His answer was to take the city...

Twenty new restaurants, including Chicagoist favorite Smoque, (chow pictured) were named Great Neighborhood Restaurants (GNR) today by our favorite (and the only) Chicago-based culinary discussion board, LTHForum. LTH members give the yearly awards to restaurants they believe "contribute to their neighborhoods' and the city's character by offering outstanding food, an authentic experience of their ethnic culture, and/or a welcoming (or in some cases, belovedly cranky) atmosphere for guests."

Our friends over at LTHforum have just opened up the nominations period for new Great Neighborhood Restaurants (GNRs). We've sung the praises of this program before; with Chicago being "a city of neighborhoods," it can oftentimes be difficult to get to know the ins and outs of new neighborhoods. Chicagoist certainly will cop to this. We tend to avoid going out anywhere (and yes, this is really sad) that isn't within walking distance of our...

Chicagoist was super excited when we found out a couple of years ago that you can text message Google (GOOGL on the ol' cell) and it will give you the info you need. Aha, we thought to ourselves, never again will we aimlessly wander around looking for a restaurant. Now we can just Google it!