If you waited until the last minute to make your reservations, don't despair. We've got you covered. more ›

Are you a Chicago history nerd? A food lover? An architecture geek? A fan of the Palmer House Hotel? If you're any of these things, we have just the event for you. The Palmer House and Lockwood Restaurant are running a series of lunch-time tours of the hotel, hosted by resident "historian extraordinaire" (and PR director) Ken Price. more ›

On Saturday, Prescott mentioned that SushiSambaRio was raising money for Japan, with all of the proceeds from a special sushi roll going to help relief efforts. More restaurants have jumped into the effort, including Japonais, More Cupcakes, Takashi, Lockwood and Hunt Club. Japonais is also hosting a benefit on March 29th. The complete list, with details, is at The Feast. We expect it to get longer in the coming days, so keep checking back and keep your eyes open. Has anyone seen any other dining-based relief efforts? more ›

Hours after Phillip Foss sent out a press release announcing that he and wife Kenni were turning the Gaztro-Wagon's brick and mortar storefront into a pop-up kitchen to showcase their street food concepts, Foss announced (via Twitter) that he was out as chef of Lockwood at the Palmer House Hilton. Although Foss has yet to detail the reasons why he was let go from Lockwood, he's looking at the parting as a golden opportunity. more ›

Lockwood chef Phillip Foss is on a roll this year in attracting media attention, and almost always for noble or worthy causes. His advocacy for viewing Asian carp as a food source and not an invasive species has been a road filled with potholes, but he's taken his cause celebre to the Today show and left no local media outlet stone unturned. along with Gaztro-Wagon's Matt Maroni, Foss has also led the charge for food trucks in Chicago, and his blog is still as entertaining as ever. It could be argued that Foss's visibility in the media is second to Graham Elliot Bowles; Foss also weighed in on the GEB/Chicago magazine dustup. more ›

Many chefs in town have tried, but one man is taking on the Asian carp menace one plate at a time. The name of this culinary crusader is Chef Phillip Foss and he is whipping out invasive species creations at Lockwood in the Palmer House. more ›

Want a chance for a free dinner for two Sunday? then e-mail Lockwood chef Phillip Foss here. He'll be giving away a civet of wild hare for two. What's a civet of wild hare? In this instance it's a hearty french stew with a base of red wine, herbs and sometimes thickened with blood. we wouldn't put it past Foss to try that, either. He'll pick the winner tomorrow at 4 p.m. [The Pickled Tongue] more ›

As a chef, Lockwood's Phillip Foss is starting to come into his own. His take on the Chicago Hot Dog (made with diced lobster rolled in a scallop mousse in response to a challenge from MP Chicago's Helen Rosner) was said to be "like Hot Doug's in a tuxedo having sex with a Maine Lobster Roll" by Michael Nagrant. He's also a very prolific, engaging, and quite talented blogger. It seems academic that Foss be part of a unique tasting next Tuesday, from 6-9 p.m. Lockwood is hosting what Foss calls the first-ever "digital tasting" with Farmer Lee Jones of The Chef's Garden in Milan, Ohio. more ›

Mmm, hot soup sounds good. Especially since we expected 18 inches of snow and ice this morning. Whatevs, weatherman! So, we're back to the Friday Buffet. This is because we kept thinkin' it was due up on Fridays and kept missing Thursday. D'oh! more ›

There's "food porn" (we prefer the term "culinary erotica") and then there's just straight-up smut. Laurent Gras' blog for L2O is possibly the best example of the former. One of the attractions of his and other chefs' blogs is that it pulls back the curtain to reveal that the Wizard is merely a man, albeit a very driven one. It's also been said that imitation is also the sincerest form of flattery. more ›