Literally next door to one of my favorite (budget-friendly!) restaurants in Chicago, The Allis, is yet ANOTHER of my favorite haunts. Right up the stairs from Allis, inside the very same building, is a delicious little spot I find myself at ALL…
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I ADORE French Cuisine. Back in Spring 2004, I did an exchange program in high school where I lived with a homestay family in Grenoble, France. It was my very first trip abroad and my first exposure to the culinary…
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When I first moved to Chicago after college I knew NOTHING about the restaurant scene here. Mind you this was 6 years ago when Instagram had barely surfaced and the amateur Chicago foodie scene was just a quiet echo of the massive…
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I say it loudly and I say it often — Chicago is a city of GREAT restaurants. Just one deliciously innovative concept after the next. You might even go so far as to say the Windy City is a perfect mecca for…
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There’s really nothing like spring in the Midwest. One day it’s a balmy 60 degrees, the next you’re trudging through several inches of ice and snow. No joke. As I told you earlier this week… schizophrenia doesn’t even begin to…
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Sed Bona, a snippet of the Latin phrase “Pauca Sed Bona“, means “quality over quantity”. It means that having more isn’t always best. It means empowering yourself to do fewer but better, more beautiful, and more fruitful things
