From an all-day restaurant serving ceviche and saudero tacos to a long-awaited bistro from an Atelier alum, it’s a promising ...

Tajah Ware is a Chicago-based writer and storyteller covering culture, community, and the city’s ever-evolving dining scene. Chicago’s restaurant openings roundup is your resource to find out what’s ...

Dewey’s Cafe is embracing local produce with an eye towards dietary restrictions on its coffee and lunch menus.

While for many of us dry chicken breasts are a rite of poultry passage, brothers Oliver and Nicolas Poilevey have a different tale to tell. Theirs is one of vacations filled with roadside rotisserie ...

It was the Sunday after Thanksgiving 2025, and Prime & Provisions was experiencing its best year yet. The sophisticated Loop steakhouse, which DineAmic Hospitality co-founders Luke Stoioff and David ...

Tajah Ware is a Chicago-based writer and storyteller covering culture, community, and the city’s ever-evolving dining scene. Chicago’s restaurant openings roundup is your resource to find out what’s ...

Located inside the Stony Island Arts Bank, Yunomi, named after the traditional Japanese handleless tea cup, is an arts-themed cocktail bar. Han Cha, which translates to “one” or “passion” and “tea,” ...

Chef Jacob Potashnick of the highly ambitious Ukrainian Village restaurant Feld brought home Chicago’s lone James Beard Award for 2026. Chef Bailey Sullivan from Chicago Italian restaurant Monteverde ...

While Chicago summers are typically reserved for festivals and anywhere with access to the great outdoors, there’s a slate of new restaurant openings on the horizon that are equally worthy of ...

At Mariela, opening on Wednesday, May 6, in the Loop, one of Chicago’s most hotly anticipated openings of 2026, Kumar and Mohajir are expanding on their boundary-busting ethos. Located on the ground ...

When it opens later this month at 111 N. Carpenter Street, All Well — one of Chicago’s most hotly anticipated openings of 2026 — will feature two concepts: a 46-seat main dining room that will offer a ...

Breakfast is coming back big with a new all-day cafe on Halsted and a bagel shop on Lincoln, both in Lincoln Park. Just north of that, Evanston is getting more morning options (even Chicago Cut ...