It’s not often I give great thanks to corporate America or the Chicago bureaucracy. But on this occasion—with a stomach full of the best Puerto Rican food I’ve had in Chicago in a while—a salute is in ...

Thinly sliced adobo-marinated rib eye, crisp twice-fried plantains, and garlic confit mayo come together in this Chicago-inspired sandwich that balances meaty richness and crunch. Roscoe Hall is more ...

Chicago’s having a moment right now. In no small part thanks to The Bear, Italian beef sandwiches and Pequod’s pizza are in vogue. Restaurants, food publications and social media users are doing their ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- It's as Chicago as deep dish pizza. The Jibarito is a sandwich said to born in the kitchen of the Puerto Rican restaurant in the Windy City. Borinquen, 3811 N Western Ave, has been in ...

Sometime in the last year, a restaurant of fairly historic importance closed its doors and—at least as far as the food media were concerned—nobody noticed. Borinquen,* in Humboldt Park, was the ...

Ashok Selvam is the former James Beard Award-winning regional editor for Eater’s Midwest region, in charge of coverage in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities. He’s a native Chicagoan and had been ...

From multi-pattied smash burger towers to thick, French onion soup-esque tavern burgers ...

Long before Colonel Sanders replaced bread with fried chicken, a man who had no bread but a whole lot of bad judgment did the same thing with deep-fried plantains. He sandwiched them around steak, ...