Dining
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Lake Zurich Brewing Company to open soon in Black Belt Brewery's old spaceJan 25, 2018 4:33 am - Black Belt Brewery in Lake Zurich opened in 2016 and closed in 2017, but soon the dormant space will be producing beer once again for a new company. Orland Park busines...
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Good food, craft beer and sports, sports sports at Miller's Ale House in SchaumburgJan 23, 2018 5:00 am - You know there's someone really smart out there who has carefully calculated an accurate flat-screen-per-sports-bar-square-footage ratio that applies to all places where...
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The Clubhouse restaurant in Schaumburg closesJan 23, 2018 12:00 am - The Clubhouse restaurant in Schaumburg, the third user of the vast, 22,000-square-foot building on American Lane that opened as Entourage in 2006, has permanently closed...
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Restaurant deals abound in city, suburbs for Chicago Restaurant Week 2018Jan 21, 2018 6:00 am - For more than a decade, Chicago Restaurant Week has been providing city and suburban foodies a reason to brave the winter weather: a hard-to-resist combo of dining deals...
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Sweet on sweet wines? Dry doesn't always mean betterJan 20, 2018 6:24 am - There's a popular misconception about wine that dry is better than sweet. I'm no specialist in national psychology, but this fear of sweetness might stem from our collec...
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10 things restaurants should do betterJan 19, 2018 5:00 am - As a food critic, I eat almost all my meals away from home. All that time spent in dining rooms other than my own has given me abundant pleasure, but also pause, as I en...
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St. Charles couple opening Moveable Feast in downtown WheatonJan 19, 2018 12:00 am - The husband-and-wife owners of Geneva's Moveable Feast & Co. are opening a new Wheaton dining spot inspired by the flagship. Nearly four years after they bought the caf...
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Dining out: Learn the art of French cooking during Mon Ami Gabi classJan 17, 2018 5:00 am - French cooking class Love French food? Learn how to make wild mushroom tartare with cheese toast, merguez burger with cream cheese spread and hand-cut frites, and malted...
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Two new restaurants get permission to open in Lake ZurichJan 17, 2018 12:00 am - Two new restaurants are coming to Lake Zurich after the village board approved a drive-through lane for a new Meat & Potato Eatery and a liquor license for a new Carlos ...
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Wine trends for 2018: Cans, kegs and moreJan 16, 2018 5:00 am - This is the time of year when wine writers, exhausted from writing holiday bottle and gift recommendations - and from consuming copious amounts of champagne during our r...