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Sometimes, you find excellent cocktails where you least expect them. On a visit to Green Zebra, Shawn McLain’s West Town vegetarian joint, we expected to find great food in a Zen-like, meat-free (or almost meat-free) environment. Less anticipated were the expertly designed and crafted cocktails. Their cocktail list is not extensive, but everything on it is good – and believe us, we tried EVERYTHING. Our favorite libation of the evening was the Bee's Knees, a gin cocktail made with lavender honey. Combine our growing affinity for gin-based cocktails and our love of herbal flavors and we’re easily sold. Best of all, unlike some restaurant cocktails, this one is also fairly easy to try at home.

Someone apparently reads the site: former Chicagoist staffer Lisa Shames attended Sunday's beer and charcuterie seminar at Custom House and e-mailed us to say that there were at least four people in attendance beside her who found out about the seminar via Chicagoist. We ran into at least that many people last night who said the same.

Last week we wrote about a beer and charcuterie dinner co-hosted by Custom House and Unibroue this Sunday for an all-inclusive $35. Since Spring Restaurant Group announced the dinner, it's become one of the hottest fixed-price dinners in town.

It's easy to forget that, with all the hype recently bestowed to the Violet Hour since it opened months ago (much of it warranted, we'll preface), that this city was already teeming with master mixologists before Toby Maloney blew back into town. Case in point, at the recent "Chicago Iron Bartender" competition, Sepia's Peter Vestinos beat out a packed field including Nacional 27's Adam Seger, Tim Lacey of Spring Restaurant Group, and Otom's James Macknyk...

A good drink can improve the quality level of a meal. It can make a mediocre dinner tolerable, or raise the bar on a perfectly cooked entree. The best chefs, along with their sommeliers, wine stewards, and spirits experts, plan a meal and its pairings with meticulous detail. Although beer and food have complemented each other for centuries, restaurants in the States are placing an increased emphasis on offering beer pairings for those who don't...

Let's start the buffet off with this video this video singing the praises of the Harold's 6-piece wing dinner. The language is NSFW, but if you're watching this in the office, you're probably the only one left, so crank it. Memorial Day is the (un)official start of grilling season. We've had the grill on an eternal flame for two months now, but loaded up on fresh vegetables from the farmer's market, tri-tip steaks from...