Ready, willing and able is Sable restaurant

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cuisine, loop, restaurant, river north

Published July 15, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.
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Cocktail culture meets small-plates cuisine in hip new River North hangout ... For the last 10 years, Heather Terhune ran the kitchen at Atwood Cafe, in the Loop. She did fine work — critics, myself included, flung air-kisses in her direction — but with her audience an assortment of lunchtime shoppers, clock-watching pre-theater diners and stuck-at-the-office Loop workers, she didn't generate much name recognition ...

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Michelin Guide coming to Chicago in November

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Published July 13, 2010 at 7:00 a.m.
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Posted by Phil Vettel How many Michelin stars would Charlie Trotter get? Sometime before Thanksgiving, we're going to know. The Michelin Guide, the gold standard of restaurant ratings, published in 23 countries, is coming to Chicago for the very first ...

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Everybody loves a critic

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food, restaurant

Published July 13, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.
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Former NY restaurant reviewer's weighty journey with food ends happily ... I met Frank Bruni a year or so ago, when, still the New York Times' restaurant critic, he came to Chicago on an eating trip and offered to meet somewhere for a drink. I suggested Sunda, a restaurant very much of the moment — too much so, it turned out, as the bar was packed, every possible chair apparently accounted for, and the polite hostess told us there was nothing she could do ...

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TweetEcho: July 12, 2010

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Published July 12, 2010 at 11:38 a.m.
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For those of you who don't subscribe to our Twitter feed, here are the tweets we posted over the last week or so: ... Thanks to Alfie Martin for posting photos of Wilbur Wright College on our Facebook page. Pix here:http://ow.ly/29CDzabout 1 hour ago via HootSuite ... Chicago building of the day: George Washington-Robert Morris-Hyam Salomon Memorial : http://ow.ly/1aMX5about 2 hours ago via HootSuite ... 300 North LaSalle to sell for $655m, or $503/sqft - most

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Rosebud in Naperville burns

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Published July 12, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.
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Fire shuts part of downtown and riverwalk ... Naperville firefighters battled a three-alarm fire at a Rosebud restaurant in the west suburb's downtown Sunday afternoon, officials said ...

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Naperville restaurant fire closes downtown streets

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Published July 11, 2010 at 3:53 p.m.
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Firefighters at the scene of a fire at a Rosebud restaurant in downtown Naperville. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago ... Tribune) ... Naperville firefighters battled a three-alarm fire at a Rosebud restaurant in the west suburb's downtown this afternoon, officials said ... Officials said the fire was struck out at about 2:40 p.m., but crews were still on scene ... Firefighters were called to the eatery at 48 W. Chicago Ave. at about noon today after someone reported a fire at the site, a dispatcher

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'Stubborn' fire claims Naperville's Rosebud restaurant

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restaurant, shopping

Published July 11, 2010 at 2:19 p.m.

A "stubborn" fire erupted Sunday inside Rosebud in downtown Naperville, disrupting the bustling shopping district as firefighters battled heat and humidity to extinguish flames and minimize damage ...

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Swimming in Oil

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Published July 9, 2010 at 5:18 p.m.

Evanston photographer Jane Fulton Alt's latest series, Crude Awakening, comments on the Gulf oil spill by depicting "oil-soaked" swimmers on the shores of Lake Michigan. (She also just got back from touring Mexico City with Rick Bayless and his restaurant ...

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Brasserie Jo closing; will become new French concept in October

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Published July 9, 2010 at 5:00 p.m.
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Posted by Phil Vettel The days are numbered for Brasserie Jo (59 W. Hubbard St., 312-595-0800). The venerable casual-French restaurant, which won the James Beard Foundation's 1996 Outstanding New Restaurant award, will close its doors at the end of August ...

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Mix Drinks From Your Computer

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Published July 9, 2010 at 11:20 a.m.
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If you are susceptible to addictive internet mini-games, and you have things to accomplish at work today, stop reading now ... All gone? Alright ... We've been stuck playing "Mixology" for the last day and we didn't want to inflict it on anyone else ... Your boss says you can't mix up Pina Coladas at your desk? Playing this is the next best thing ... Underneath, "Mixology" is a fairly standard matching type game, with a tropical overlay ... Except, instead of trying to clear the board, as in

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