How Chicago restaurants are adapting to draw you back in: When a multi-course sit-down French menu no longer works, it’s time to pivot chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct…

Lakefront restaurants to reopen this week, many as early as Friday chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct…

Chicago’s legendary FOBAB beer festival canceled due to COVID-19, but the competition will go on chicagotribune.com/dining/drink/c…

Chef Erling Wu-Bower exits Pacific Standard Time in restaurant industry breakup. Avec chef takes over. chicagotribune.com/dining/ct-food…

Boom market: Chicago’s Hopewell Brewing recalls beers with risk of rupturing cans chicagotribune.com/dining/drink/c…

Our mayor don't play: Chicago closes five more restaurants and bars for COVID-19 guideline violations chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct…

The Hero We Need Built a Gun That Shoots Masks Onto People's Faces; this is the sort of vigilantism I can get behind. gizmodo.com/the-hero-we-ne… via @gizmodo

2 Chicago restaurants among 4 businesses cited for coronavirus guideline violations chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct…

Free tacos in Streeterville, open-face tartines at Politan Row: How Chicago restaurants are adapting to draw you back in chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct…

Illinois breweries rally for Black is Beautiful social justice effort — including the state’s only Black brewery owner chicagotribune.com/dining/drink/c…

Lawry’s opens its historic mansion for tours, yet another way in which Chicago restaurants are adapting to draw you back in chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct…

The 25 best pizzas in Chicago — from scrappy newcomers to beloved classics chicagotribune.com/dining/ct-food…

Jonathan Zaragoza’s Mexican pop-up El Oso debuts Thursday: How Chicago restaurants are adapting to draw you back in chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct…

NOW what am I supposed to do with my Len Kasper jersey?

Former Michelin-star Temporis chef Don Young opening new restaurant on Michigan Avenue chicagotribune.com/dining/ct-food…

‘The work is never done’ — Tribune restaurant critic Phil Vettel says goodbye after 41 years chicagotribune.com/dining/ct-food…

Baseball wisdom: You can’t steal first. Javy Baez: Ahem.

Join me for a four-course dinner and informal discussion with chefs/restaurateurs Rohini Dey, Laurence Noguier, Jenny McCoy, Jodi Fyfe and Daniela Recillas at 6 p.m. Friday (10/8) at Vermillion. Five-course dinner (one course from each restaurant), $100. letstalkwomxn.com

Set out some bird seed this morning and the Bluejays are chowing down, flying off and returning for more. Can’t stop eating, them Jays…

This is malpractice. Serious malpractice. I don't see how CNN can keep him.