After much press and many previews, Nellcote is finally open for business - and we were there on opening night. more ›

The machine has arrived and is producing the good stuff. Their pizza and pasta is going to be the stuff of dreams—if Van Camp and company can get it right. more ›

Affordable ideas and specials around Chicago for Valentine’s Day. more ›

Discover your pizza persona! Or just grab some tasty pies. more ›

Nestled in the busy North & Clybourn shopping corridor, Sono Wood Fired serves up some seriously tasty and artistic wood fired pizzas. more ›

"Go to Sleep," the signature pizza of WWE Champ CM Punk, made a return engagement to Ian's Pizza in Wrigleyville. more ›

What food trucks would you like to see on the streets of Chicago? Here are some of our picks. more ›

Scalia was speaking to students at the Chicago-Kent School of Law Tuesday when he applied his strict brand of originalism to Chicago's pizza recipe of choice. more ›

Got lunch plans for Monday? If not, try to keep those plans open. It's La Madia's fourth anniversary, and the River North thin-crust pizza palace announced that to celebrate the occasion, four of its favorite pies will be available for just $4 apiece during lunch service (11:15 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.). more ›

Look out Edgewater, there is a new player in your pizza scene. The new kid on the block, however, is by no means new to the business, just your neighborhood. Pete's Pizza has been serving up traditional, thin crust pizza and Italian specialties for over 60 years. After working from essentially one outpost for six decades, this is their first real expansion. The new digs are bright and cozy, giving the Granville corridor yet another breath of fresh air. Having heard the hype, we decided to put Pete's to the test. more ›

Some things were simply meant to go together. Take for instance, peaches and cream, gin and tonic, or even Starsky and Hutch. To quote the old Reese's commercial, they are "two great tastes that taste great together". But what about curry and pizza? It may not sound like a match made in heaven, but then again we neither eat with our ears nor our eyes. If this combination strikes you as even the least bit intriguing, then head on down to Curried in the Loop and get a little taste of something divine. more ›

The old adage that one should never judge a book by its cover clearly cuts both ways. No matter where you go, some of the most run down, hole-in-the-wall-looking dives crank out some of the best food. And, sadly, it follows that some of the most posh leave you wishing you had opted for the nearest dive. When it comes to restaurants, looks can definitely be deceiving. A recent visit to Chuckie's in Rogers Park left us not only feeling duped, but rather hungry as well. more ›

Quad Cities-style pizza upped its presence in Chicago on Tuesday with the grand opening of Roots Handmade Pizza, the latest venture from Fifty/50 owners Greg Mohr and Scott Weiner. Always eager to expand our culinary horizons, we rushed over to get a look at the new digs and then get down to the business of disappearing some 'za. more ›

- Roots Handmade Pizza, which will be serving "Quad Cities" style hand-tossed pizza, opens tonight. Owned by Greg Mohr and Scott Weiner (of The Fifty/50), the West Town pizza joint will also feature more than 70 Midwestern beers and a house brand of root beer. Before you ask, "Quad Cities" pizza is characterized by a thin, spicy sauce and a malt crust, mad with brewers malt. more ›

Frasca turns five and Revolution Brewing debuts its collaborative beer with Firestone Walker Brewing. more ›

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Last week, i was at Terzo Piano looking at cocktails, and I decided to stay for lunch. I don't usually think of art museums as pizza destinations, but when the crew behind Spiaggia is involved, I guess I should have higher expectations for their Italian specialities. This pizza (or pizzetta) blew me away. Normally made with home-made chorizo, last week's version was made with short ribs. Either way, the combination of roasted fennel, onions, meat and cheshire cheese made for the perfect lunch dish. The pizzetta ($16) is easily enough to feed two people. Go for it. more ›

For the first in our series of Valentine's Day dinners, we wanted to start with something a little informal. Some of us want to do something interesting and fun, but don't want to drop $200 a person. This year, Valentine's Day is on a Monday. After a full Monday of work, many couples might not be interested in celebrating - we always make a point of doing our valentine's celebration during the preceding weekend. Enter redFLAME more ›

This morning, WBEZ introduced us to the "hot wings index," gauging the economic index of the playoff game by the number of wings restaurants in Green Bay and Chicago were stocking up. One restaurant, in Evanston, was planning to go through 6000 pounds of hot wings - that's 3000 chickens! Anyway, if you are looking for deals of your own, you have come to the right place. Bears fans (and Packers fans, and indifferent football agnostics) can enjoy some great food and drink specials this weekend, as bars and restaurants try to squeeze one more hot weekend of business out of football fever. more ›

As mentioned yesterday, I had a chance to partake in a pizza summit with legendary radio personality Steve Dahl, where we exchanged lists of 4-5 pizzerias each wanted the other to visit, and then discussed our findings with each other. Dahl gave me his rundown of the pizza joints I selected yesterday. Today, I return the favor. more ›

Last month I was given the proverbial offer I couldn't refuse: the chance to work on something with the legendary radio personality, Steve Dahl. For a generation of radio listeners, Dahl's partnership with Garry Meier was appointment radio worth all the detention hours I racked up at Lane Tech listening to them in class, and the overnight rebroadcasts of Steve and Garry on WLUP-AM 1000 made the homesickness of my first couple of years of my Navy hitch bearable. I even followed the Stever through the post-Meier solo years with Buzz Kilman, Wendy Snyder and eventually the final show on Jack-FM and into his current run as a podcast pioneer. Seriously, check out the Dahl Twitter feed and Facebook pages. He and his team have adapted to social media like a duck to water. more ›

The pizza pictured above is being served at Apart Pizza Company's two locations throughout the month of December. "Charlie's Pizza" is a combing of sweet corn, apples, creamy brie, and fresh mozzarella, and was the winning selection in Fooditude TV's "pizza party" webisode. more ›

Travel and Leisure Magazine has just put out their yearly "America's Favorite Cities" issue. The new survey ranks cities in tons of different categories and, interestingly enough, splits the results into "visitors" and "residents." We're statistics nerds, so it was interesting to see the differences between how we see ourselves and how others see us. On the food side, the results were interesting and a little surprising. more ›

Chicago knows pizza. Home of its own eponymous pie, pizza here is as hot a commodity as any traded on the CBOT. One can’t throw a stone, or make that a meatball, without hitting a mediocre pizza joint. In a city up to its ears in mozzarella and marinara, a pizza place has to do more than serve a tasty pie to stand apart from the crowd. Luckily, Pizzeria Via Stato is not your average pie-tossing joint. Its delicious, hand-crafted pizzas stand head and cheese above the rest. more ›

While it's pretty obvious I have a geek crush on the ladies of Rocketboom I'm honestly posting this because a) well, it's certainly a wake me up to start off the week and b) I can't decide whether it's cute or so overly obvious it's pandering instead of self-referential. Discuss! more ›

Looks like Chicago magazine's Jeff Ruby is reaping the whirlwind after publishing his top 25 pizzas in the area. Since then, Ruby's faced it from all comers, with comments ranging from "Where is Giordano's (on the list)" to "Jeff Ruby isn't from Chicago," a charge that we thought was only levied at specific writers right here. (For the record, Ruby's own wife has even accused him of "not being Chicagoan enough.") But he's taking the shots like a good food writer, with the requisite combination of humor, combativeness and fact. If you want a primer in how to respond to someone who goes by the name "Scoods," these are must reads and views. more ›

In what's shaping up to be a year of lists at Chicago magazine, restaurant critic Jeff Ruby has listed the magazine's 25 favorite pizzas and Great Lake's cremini mushroom and Dante cheese pizza takes top honors and further cementing Great Lake owner Nick Lessins as one of the true culinary visionaries in Chicago. more ›

Remember that map comparing bars versus grocery stores across the United States? Well, the folks at FloatingSheep are back with a new one comparing pizza, guns, and strip clubs. The data is taken from Google Map references for particular addresses. The red means pizza, green means guns, and yellow means strip clubs. Not surprisingly, the Chicagoland area is dominated by pizza, though the further down-state you go, the more guns you find. As for strip clubs, while the hot spot is certainly Las Vegas, it seems there are a few places in the northwest quadrant of Illinois where boobs trump everything else. Road trip, anyone? [via Consumerist] more ›

Now that former Cicero town president Betty Loren-Maltese is out of prison, the next logical step is a new job. The Sun-Times' Michael Sneed continues to do the Lord's work and has the scoop (er, slice?) on her new employment: pizza hostess. Betty will be working the 4 to 10 p.m. shift apparently as she continues to rebuild her post-penitentiary life. One other upgrade for her since the last time we checked in: she's left the Salvation Army halfway house behind and is now in a full-fledged Evergeen Park apartment. more ›

Tuesday is National Pizza Pie Day. That's separate from National Pizza Week which happened last month, or the Great American Pizza Bake next week, or National Cheese Pizza Day (September 5), or National Pizza Festival Month in October, or National Sausage Pizza Day (October 11), or National Pizza with Everything Except Anchovies Day (November 12). We point this out to emphasize the inanity of national "food holidays" and to ask for the idiots who created each of these individual days to incorporate these all under one National Pizza Pie Day. But we digress. more ›