Quick Bites

By Chuck Sudo in Food on Jul 29, 2010 4:40PM

Bridget Houlihan and Tammy Green were at the media unveiling of the renovated Café Spiaggia Tuesday night. [Chicago Bites]
Christina Couch, writing for Time Out Chicago, ponders whether Outstanding in the Field's advocacy of the farm-to-table movement gets lost in the $200-250 per person price tags for their dinners. [TOC]
From Chicago magazine's Dish newsletter: Argentinian street food in Bucktown; Carol Wallack will turn her original sola space into a family-style Hawaiian/Asian informed restaurant once sola moves downtown to 340 N. Clark St.; M Burger opens a second location at 5 W. Ontario in late August. [Dish]
Breathe a sigh of relief, underground supper club X-Marx restored Steve Dolinsky's faith in them. [Dolinsky/Vocalo]
Lula Café, which was closed due to last weekend's flooding, has now reopened after a good airing out. [Drive-Thru]
More Graham Elliot Bowles news: he dropped the "Bowles" and is simply going by "Graham Elliot." In other news, I'm announcing that my new last name is "Lewandowski," but the spelling is still "S-U-D-O." [Graham Elliot twitter, via]
Kevin Pang went to the Wisconsin State Fair and ate just about every food-on-a-stick imaginable. [The Stew]
Carnivale's Mark Mendez writes about what it's like to be a lame duck chef. [Mendez the Chef]
The Local Beet has some wonderful things to say about the Forest Park farmers market. [The Local Beet]