The first time I walked in to Avenues, the polished restaurant on the main lobby level of the Peninsula Chicago,…
Month: May 2009
Jason Hammel
/ 05.25.09Nightwood (2119 S. Halsted St.), the second restaurant from Lula Cafe co-owner’s Amalea Tshilds and Jason Hammel and partners Kevin…
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Duck Liver for Charlie
/ 05.22.09A couple of nights ago I drank away some of my recessionary angst at the new Humboldt Park watering hole,…
Curtis Duffy
/ 05.20.09Is getting four hours of sleep a night the secret to staying young? What does snail caviar taste like? Can…
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Slow Ride
/ 05.20.09In my fourteenth year I had the good fortune of befriending a teenage entrepreneur and a crew of stoner pizza…