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I Dine Al Trunko: Eric May for Trunk Show

      Al Trunko was a hoot! I’d like to thank everybody that joined us on a beautiful Indian Summer’s afternoon and braved the gastronomical oddities that I curated for our tour. Big thanks to Trunk Show, Raven and Jesse for creating this opportunity, its a wonderful project that literally takes the art to […]
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Piranha Club #8: A Tribute to Leo’s Lunchroom

  Piranha Club #8 was a smashing success! It was a real pleasure to tap into the resonating, collective love for Leo’s Lunchroom. We had old regulars come out and  folks that weren’t around back when, but were excited to tap into the legend. This was the first time we’d served restaurant style and it […]
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Announcing Piranha Club #8: A Tribute to Leo’s Lunchroom

  April 27th, 11am- 9pm at Roots & Culture 1034 N Milwaukee Ave.   Serving a menu of brunch, lunch all day, and dinner. Brunch 11am-2pm. Dinner 6pm-8pm. Kitchen closes at 8. 10 seats available at a time. First come, first serve. BYOB. Vegetarians, of course, are welcome!     
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Hot Mix 10/17- 11/3

Satisfied Trick or Treaters Dinic’s Style Roast Pork Sandwich “Spicy Italian” Banh Mi 2nd Best Customer Best Customer
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Hot Mix 9/26-10/14

The Freddy Ham & Cheese Okonomiyaki “French Dip” Banh Mi with Pho Jus Salt Beef Beigal Trinidadian Doubles
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Chinatown

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Maxwell St.

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Round da way (Chicago & Ashland)

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2010: Top 10 Food

Another great food year, obsessive as always- the day’s (and sometimes the week’s) food plans are first and last things on my mind every day. I guess I broke the past two years’  trend of thriftiness- things went a bit more indulgent this year- what with a $26 dollar burger in the following list. That […]
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Trick or Treat (on da block)

For Halloween this year I gave my assistants each a $100 cash gift- with a caveat, they would have to spend the money only on Milwaukee Ave. between the gallery and Crater liquor store. They both volunteer for me and I have always felt somewhat guilty for this exchange of time and labor (for job […]
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