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Nando Milano Trattoria

Nando Milano is a classic Italian trattoria offering homemade pastas, breads and desserts. You will encounter excellent service and wine selection in a welcoming, casual setting.

Thithi’s

A unique fusion of Thai, French and Vietnamese cuisines. Well known for their one-of-a-kind specialty cocktails.

Nando Milano Trattoria

Nando Milano is a classic Italian trattoria offering homemade pastas, breads and desserts. You will encounter excellent service and wine selection in a welcoming, casual setting.

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L. Woods
This Week’s Episode: L. Woods, Bite Café, Athenian Room

The restaurants we featured this week have all been open for well over a decade, which is multiple lifetimes you’re talking about a dining establishment. This is something I love about the Chicago dining scene. Despite the never-ending stream of new restaurants, there are still so many classics that have stuck around and continue to be strongly supported by the community.

Rockit Ranch Productions
The Real Souper Bowl

The best defense for a Chicago winter is soup, soup, and more soup, which is what makes the week-long Soup Fest at Rockit Bar & Grill and Rockit Burger Bar the quintessential winter celebration. All week long from February 3 through February 7, the restaurants are offering up a slew of soups, featuring a different variety each day, plus an alphabetical blast from the past.\

CH Distillery (photo by Arnold Klein)
CH Distillery Stirs Up Guest Bartender Series

Chicago is a city saturated with destination-worthy bars, presided over by masterful mixologists shaking up killer potables. So it makes sense that bartenders would mingle and share the love with one another. CH Distillery celebrates its compatriots with a new guest bartender series kicking off next month, wherein a different mixologist makes a one-night-only cameo behind the CH bar on the second Tuesday of every month
 

Chef with a glass of wine

Sit down at the table with David Manilow, creator of Check, Please!, as he explores the Chicago food and restaurant landscape with the unique personalities who have influenced it.

A chef in her restaurant

An original web series that profiles a diverse group of Chicago area restaurateurs, chefs, baristas, gin enthusiasts, and others. Meet the people who feed you.

Dishalicious show host in apron

Experience the culinary world — live and in-person — through the eyes of top Chicago chefs! Dishalicious is a fast-paced, live demonstration cooking show and event that’s fun and informative.

Discover the ways Chicago’s celebrity chefs unwind after they clock out of the kitchen. Get to know another side of these interesting personalities who — while known for their passion and work ethic in the kitchen — are fascinating and passionate people in their personal lives as well.