As Chicago’s street festivals struggle, Chicago Gourmet is swinging for the fences in 2025 and leaning into the city’s passion for sports. Organizers have announced a battery of events, including a ...

The Vale Bar's owner Ed Kelly told the ECHO: "James was lovely. He was out having a meal in a restaurant further down the street before he came into the bar. "He wasn't here for long but he spent ...

but at an end of James Street that’s recently been gentrified, with Fat Cow coming in and Cru Bar being renovated. It felt like it was the right moment,” Mitchell says. In charge of design was ...

Hinojosa, who opened CRUjiente on 40th Street and Camelback Road with Jason ... “Jason and I opened CRU in 2016, we followed no rules. We decided that we were going to serve what we thought ...

Agency, a hybrid cocktail bar located on Milwaukee’s East Side, has made the short list for a prestigious James Beard Award ... Marshall St., serving up a hybrid menu of craft cocktails from ...

The finalists for the 2025 James Beard Awards were announced Wednesday morning. Milwaukee cocktail bar Agency, which opened late last summer in the Dubbel Dutch Hotel at 817 N. Marshall St., was ...

Edmund’s Oast was named a James Beard Award semifinalist in 2024 ... No concept is immune, causing longtime stalwarts like Cru Cafe and buzzy newcomers like Makan and Bearcat to shutter with ...

Lotus Noodle Bar in St. Augustine, Florida, hosted the first Friends of James Beard Benefit Dinner in the city. The event raised $5,000 for The Woman’s Exchange of St. Augustine to fund ...

Cru Cafe owner ... opened on King Street in October. A cave-like passageway connects the two concepts. Chubby Fish chef/owner James London opened a cocktail bar, Seahorse, next to his uber-popular ...