The new restaurant and bar from Michael Kornick and David Morton is hard to find, but worth the journey. more ›

Fish Bar is selling itself on Ebay for New Year's Eve. The starting price? $5000. more ›

Each month Mercadito offers Tacos for Strength, a tasty promotion that features a special taco created by a guest chef. more ›

DMK Burger Bar has created a new burger for the Chicago Bears that might make us venture into the place during the insanely-packed game days. Or at least, fantasize about it. The "Pigskin" burger is made with root beer-braised pork, a grass-fed beef burger, aged organic Wisconsin cheddar, pickles and onions. Oh, and "love," according to DMK. more ›

7931 Lincoln Avenue, Skokie. more ›

We stopped in at Fish Bar to check out Michael Kornick's latest creation and snap a few pictures. We left full and happy. more ›

Michael Kornick and David Morton, the men behind the wildly successful DMK Burger Bar, are all set to open their seafood-focused venture Fish Bar tomorrow at 11:30 a.m., right next door to DMK. more ›

What a great deal! It's no secret that we're big fans of MK - and, thanks to their generosity, all of our readers get a chance to try them for a low price. Any Sunday-Thursday until May 1st, just mention that you read Chicagoist when you make your reservation and you will get 25% off your bill. That's better than a groupon. more ›

Looking for a gift for the chef-obsessed food lover in your life? Don't go to one of those silly calendar stores to buy a pin-up poster of girls in Hawaii! Instead, grab the 2011 calendar from DMK burger bar. All of the pictures (tableaus might be more accurate) are of the staff, engaging in various seasonally-themed burger activities. In May, it's raining french fries! In October, True Blood: Catsup Edition! You get the picture. If you are a Michael Kornick groupie, now is your chance to have his shining visage on your wall. more ›

Localvore advocate and food science PhD holder Jim Javenkoski has put together another localvore dinner, this time partnering with Michael Kornick, Erick Williams, Tony Galzin and the staff at mk. more ›

Combine charity and good food by heading to Michael Kornick's DMK Burger Bar this Sunday, July 25th, for its Shift Drinks (and Eats) event. Your $10 donation goes to Share Our Strength and gets you the entire DMK menu at half-off. Grass-fed beef burgers, fries, mac 'n' cheese, beer, home-made sodas, Mmmmmmmm. There will be a raffle and giveaways, as well! more ›

From the inbox: Starting April 12, DMK Burger Bar will be open seven days a week. They'll also be offering carryout service from 11 a.m. - 6 p.m. As someone mentioned on twitter, wonder how the fried pickles (above) will handle the transport. more ›

Mindy Segal celebrated five years of Hot Chocolate last night with a $150 per person dinner to benefit Share Our Strength's Taste of the Nation event this August. This year Segal wanted to feature the chefs who helped influence her on her way to becoming one of the best pastry chefs in the country. The lineup she put together resembled a chef's Dream Team. Rick Bayless and Brian Enyart, Paul Kahan, Michael Kornick and Erick Williams, Paul Virant, Bill Kim, Nick Lessins of Great Lake and Benjamin Caulfield of Three Floyds Brewpub joined Segal and her new executive chef Aric Miech in producing a tightly orchestrated seven-course meal paired with beers from some of Segal's favorite breweries. more ›

There's been one glaring omission on DMK Burger Bar's menu since its autumn opening: the #5 burger. The burger will finally take its place on the menu with a launch party tomorrow night at 9 p.m. more ›

Although it happened in February, Hot Chocolate's fourth anniversary dinner still stood as my favorite overall dining experience last year. It was a seven-course marathon that increased in intensity and flavor with every dish, paired with some heavy duty beers and a music soundtrack that ranged from early Black Sabbath to pre-"Black Album" Metallica to the Twilight Singers. The proceeds from the dinner went to Share Our Strength, the DC-based non-profit dedicated to eliminating hunger in America by 2015. Quite simply, I was exhausted at the end of the meal. more ›

Here's a deal for iPhone users who installed the foodie app. If you use foodie to make a reservation at mk this evening for their four-course tasting menu (a $45 value), you'll receive a free $15 gift card to DMK Burger Bar. As a bonus, anyone who makes a reservation using foodie through January 26 will become eligible for a pass to Stephanie Izard's final Wandering Goat dinner January 27. the more reservations you make through foodie, the more entries you have toward winning the dinner. more ›

Last week, we visited the newly-opened DMK Burger Bar. A joint venture of Michael Kornick (mk) and David Morton, DMK aims to provide upscale burgers and accoutrements, made with grass-fed beef and a lot of wit and charm. While the experience had a few minor bumps, they are moving along through their opening jitters quite nicely. more ›

Michael Kornick has released the menu for his upcoming burger bar concept with David Morton, DMK Burger Bar (2954 N. Sheffield, 773-360-8686): more ›

We were graciously allowed to visit the kitchen of Chef Michael Kornick's restaurant, MK, to capture pictures of their food. Our only regret was not catching a shot of the signature pommes frites served with truffle cream (do yourself a favor and order the extra truffle cream from the start...you won't be sorry). Enjoy! more ›

If you happened to be dining at any one of a number of Chicago’s top restaurants last Monday evening and peeked your head into the kitchen, odds are you wouldn’t have found the executive chefs there. But that doesn’t mean they weren’t working. Instead, over 30 of the city’s best chefs and 20 United States Bartenders’ Guild members were donating their time and skills to Share Our Strength’s “Taste of the Nation Chicago,” just... more ›

Apparently, Simon Cowell is a big supporter of the fight against hunger. Shocking, we know. But it just goes to show that just one day of working alongside volunteers of America’s Second Harvest, as shown on the "American Idol" show a couple weeks ago, can soften even the hardest of hearts (sorry, Simon, you can be kind of a toughie). The organization serves as a network for more than 200 food banks and food-rescue organizations... more ›

For a goyim, Chicagoist has a healthy appreciation of kosher delis. Whenever we're in New York we absolutely have to grab a nosh at Katz's Deli or Nussbaum & Wu. Living on the near South Side we've also had our share of experiences at Manny's. It takes someone with chutzpah and mishegas to start up a deli with an aim of being mentioned in the same breath as Manny's, even more so to open a... more ›

Tickets are now available for Recipe For Relief, the Jimmy Banos-led culinary benefit for the survivors of Hurricane Katrina. On Oct. 6 from 5:30 p.m. to 10 p.m. at The Grand Ballroom at McCormick Place South, 2301 S. Martin Luther King Dr., the event includes music, a silent auction and cookbook signing with Rick Bayless. To be clear, Chicagoist is heartbroken than such an event is necessary but we have to tell you that as... more ›

Yesterday the nominees for the biggest prize awarded to select members of the culinary world were announced and, not surprisingly, Chicago is well represented. more ›

Our friends at Chicago Magazine brought us news this morning of two restaurant closings when its Dish column revealed that Eli's The Place For Steak is closing in July. A Chicago institution -- if not for their steaks, then most certainly for their cheesecakes -- the Streeterville spot at 215 E. Chicago Ave. where it has called home for the past 39 years is being torn down by Northwestern Memorial Hospital. According to Chicago Mag,... more ›