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The Banchet Awards announce 2027 chef and restaurant finalists in Chicago (opens the original)
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The 2027 Banchet Awards for Culinary Excellence have announced finalists in 12 categories plus three special recipients, including two pioneering chefs and an iconic deli in Chicago. The local awards will also celebrate its 25th anniversary with a move to the Harris Theater at Millennium Park in the Loop. The Banchet Awards 2027 winners will be announced on Jan. 31, 2027. “The Banchets celebrates the restaurants and the people behind them who make Chicago one of the world’s great dining cities,”
Restaurant review: Indus Progressive Indian, transcending traditions from North India to the North Shore (opens the original)
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Indus Progressive Indian, an award-winning Midwestern-influenced restaurant, honors family recipes from North India while transcending traditions with smoky masala beef brisket and fiery pork belly vindaloo on the North Shore. Owners Ajit Kalra and Sukhu Kalra first made their debut with Bhoomi, a casual Indian food hall stall in the Loop in 2021. The husband and wife then opened the cozy finer dining restaurant in their chosen hometown of Highland Park in 2024. Indus won our Readers’ Choice Awa
Food icon: Mario DiPaolo Jr. of Mario’s Italian Lemonade, where summer starts and ends in Chicago (opens the original)
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Mario DiPaolo Jr. of Mario’s Italian Lemonade has a thing about names. DiPaolo goes by Skip, and he calls what they make lemonade. And that’s for all the flavors, from the original lemon to the coveted peach. So it’s lemon lemonade, or peach lemonade, and the latter has sold out for the season, by the way, because they only use fresh, ripe fruit. That’s just how it’s been on his stretch of Taylor Street in the neighborhood still best known as Little Italy. Mario’s, the stand, will close for the
Restaurant review: Maplewood Brewery & Distillery now serving whimsical Polish American food around Chicago (opens the original)
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Maplewood, the brewery and distillery founded in Chicago, now has a chef who’s making nostalgic American comfort food with unexpected Eastern European whimsy, from lazy dumplings and pork butter to pizza with ketchup. Maplewood Lounge opened in Logan Square in 2017, and executive chef Joanna Janczurewicz launched the expanded kitchen in 2025. “We do a lot of Polish food,” said Janczurewicz. “And Hungarian and Czech.” She also oversees the food at the new Maplewood Public House in Glen Ellyn, whi
Restaurant news: Soul & Smoke finally opening flagship with acclaimed barbecue and new fine dining dishes (opens the original)
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Soul & Smoke, best known for its critically acclaimed American soul food and barbecue, will finally open a long-awaited flagship, inspired by roots in the South Side and, perhaps more surprisingly, molecular gastronomy. The reimagined restaurant is scheduled to celebrate its grand opening in Evanston after years of delays on Sept. 1. Chef D’Andre Carter and sommelier Heather Bublick began what was solely a catering company in 2020. The husband and wife still cater and now have four locations aro
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