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Dining on the Line: Crepe Town
If you’re looking for a restaurant with a classy, sophisticated ambiance and extraordinary decor, you can stop reading this review now. But if you’re looking for some killer food, please continue. This...
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Dining on the line: Chicago Bagel Authority
Chicago has deep-dish pizza, Italian beef, hot dogs and now … steamed bagel sandwiches. Chicago Bagel Authority (955 W. Belmont Ave.), the self-proclaimed “home for steamed bagel sandwiches in...
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Dining on the line: XOCO
I did it. All of my foodie adventures have led me to this moment. I have finally tasted Rick Bayless’ food. For those of you who don’t watch Food Network religiously and fangirl over celebrity chefs...
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Dining on the Line: DMK Burger Bar
This week, I ventured to DMK Burger Bar, my 13th restaurant since embarking on my Dining on the Line journey. I’m not one for superstition, but apparently 13 really is an unlucky number. Fried pickles...
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Dining on the Line: Panozzo’s Italian Market
My honors professor keeps telling me that “The South Side is the heart of the city.” And my stomach keeps telling me “I am deprived of good Italian food.” So this week I took to the Red Line and...
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Dining on the Line: Chicago Q
Pulled pork sandwich with a side of fries ($14) While Chicago is known for many different glorious foods, barbeque is not one of them. That being said, sometimes we all need a homey, warm plate of food...
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Dining on the Line: Protein Bar
The Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations officially declared 2013 as the “International Year of Quinoa.” This protein-packed super food is a grain that has been cultivated mainly...
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Dining on the Line: Taco and Burrito Palace
Sometimes the only thing you need in the world is a good Mexican place that’s open until the wee hours of the morning. If you have not yet reached a point when it’s 3 a.m. and you want a burrito but...
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Dining on the Line: SP Kebab
Big food is good. Big, cheap food is even better. Big, cheap food just a couple minutes from Loyola’s Lake Shore Campus is the best of all. SP Kebab (6808 N. Sheridan Road) is located halfway between...
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Dining on the Line: Banh Mi & Co.
Let me set the scene: I’m sitting in what is quite possibly the most hipster Vietnamese restaurant that I’ve ever been to — although I don’t actually recall ever going to a Vietnamese restaurant before...
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Dining on the Line: Pasta Palazzo
Conchiglie Gorgonzola ($9) with shrimp (+$3). A cream-based Gorgonzola sauce over shell pasta with spinach and fresh tomatoes. As a native Chicagoan, I can’t imagine coming back to the dirty snow and...
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Dining on the Line: Rockit Burger Bar
The Mac Attack: a burger with two patties of fried mac and cheese instead of a bun. Perhaps you read about it on Buzzfeed or saw a picture of it on your Facebook newsfeed. It was the burger that told...
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Dining on the Line: Cookies & Carnitas
I’m not sure which came first: the concept of combining two of my favorite foods in the world or the cleverly alliterated name, but either way I’m happy with the result. Cookies and Carnitas (5757 N....
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Dining on the Line: Blaze Pizza
The idea of assembly-line food joints isn’t new: Subway, Chipotle, Five Guys. The restaurants have a set price for a particular item (six-inch sub, burrito bowl, burger) and you can add as many...
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Dining on the Line: BIG and little’s
There are some foods that just make you feel like a badass when you eat them — really spicy hot wings, raw eggs, any form of insect, a giant turkey leg. But if you’re looking for a dose of badass...
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Dining on the Line: The Big Cheese Poutinerie
Photo by: Lynn Marsden Millspaugh According to The Government of Canada website, “Canada and Poland enjoy close bilateral relations, including growth in trade and investments, increasing military...
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The best of Dining on the Line
I started writing restaurant reviews a year and a half ago and since then my travels have brought me to 25 different restaurants, all located a few blocks or so off a CTA Red Line stop. The question I...
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Dining on the Line: Twisted Tapas
Baked Goat Cheese ($6.95) I have a love-hate relationship with tapas. Love: I can order five different things off the menu and no one is allowed to look at me like I am a freak of nature. Hate:...
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A taste of The Taste of Chicago 2014
The tastiest of all summer festivals has finally descended upon Grant Park — The Taste of Chicago 2014 is here with all of its fried, baked, broiled, boiled and grilled goodness. This year’s fest,...
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Dining on the Line: Sono Wood Fired
Made-to-order Mozzarella ($10) Sono Wood Fired gets its name both from meaning “I am” in Italian and for being located in the “Sono” area of Lincoln Park (just south of North Avenue in the Clybourn...
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