Chicago Chinese Restaurants

NEW YORK— Early in "Glengarry Glen Ross," as David Mamet brilliantly employs the scene-blackout-scene rhythm he learned sweeping floors at Chicago's Second City cabaret, Shelley can't-close-a-deal Levene is told that he cannot have the "premium...

Q: Many years ago I was dining in a restaurant in Chicago's Chinatown. I ordered pressed duck. It was served in a deep fried form about 6 inches in length, 4 inches wide and about an inch or so thick. The vegetables were pressed together with the duck and...

It’s hard to predict what we can expect from Chicago’s celebrity scene in 2012. There could be another blockbuster movie coming our way (like “Man of Steel” in 2011) or one passing us over (“The Dark Knight Rises”). And...

I recently got word that Shambles received the only 4 a.m. license on Division street in Wicker Park. So naturally, I dropped in to see what was up. It had been a minute since I had been to Shambles. When I walked in the door I noticed something…...

With this being the week Chicago has chosen to mark as their restaurant week, I decided I would go along with that, but toss it …...

Hedy Goldsmith of Michael’s Genuine Food & Drink in Miami has been nominated for Outstanding Pastry Chef in the prestigious 2012 James Beard Foundation awards, the nation’s most prestigious recognition program honoring professionals in the...

Orland Park native Bill Rancic will add to his already diversified resume when he and his wife, Giuliana, open a restaurant in Chicago in January. …...

Yo La Tengo, the Hoboken, N.J., rock trio, played the El Rey Theatre last week to end its winter tour, at each stop of which an opening set was determined by a spin of a Wheel of Fortune. Possibilities included......

Winners were announced last night, Monday, May 9, 2011, at the annual 2011 James Beard Foundation Awards, the nation’s most prestigious recognition program honoring professionals in the food and beverage industries. During a ceremony hosted by Tom...

Above, an earlier Kansas City Repertory production of "A Christmas Story, The Musical." Chicago is to be in the center of a new, nationally touring production of "A Christmas Story, The Musical," a relatively new show (and wholly new production)......

Everybody now, let's say it together and appreciate how smooth and swanky it sounds as it rolls off the tongue: The Promenade Bolingbrook. If there's a certain Brookstone/Coldwater Creek je ne sais quoi to this place, it's because Bolingbrook is in the...

Phoenix "Until moving to Chicago in 1997, I lived in San Francisco for more than 20 years. Most of those years were spent in living in Old Chinatown (downtown) and New Chinatown (Richmond district). In all of the years I lived there, I never had dim sum...