In Chicago, check out new restaurant listings for Schwa (impossibly popular New American in a drab hole-in-the-wall) and Su Van's (chill neighborhood coffeeshop counter to the Starbucks revolution). For full Chicago listings, see our restaurant guide.
This Week's Highlights: The foursome Tokyo Police Club are fast and frantic on Monday 5/5; Discuss the attractiveness of art at Richard Laurent's Charm and Strangeness exhibit at the Finestra Art Space on Friday 5/9. For details, check our complete Chicago events calendar after the jump. Got an event worth listing? Let us know at .
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In Chicago, check out new listings for existing restaurants like Kite Mandarin and Sushi (surprisingly great Chinese/Japanese in a weird atmosphere) and Stubbs Café (vintage coffee house with Starbucksian in-joke). For full listings, see our Chicago restaurant guide.
In Chicago, check out new listings for Zapatista (corny but good Mex-American) and the Orbit Room (Wellington bar still searching for its crowd). For full Chicago listings, check out our restaurant guide and nightlife guide.
In Chicago, check out new profiles for established restaurants like Bluebird (upmarket gastropub on North Damen) and Que Rico! (faux-Mexican stronghold of the stroller mafia), plus newly reopened bar Cork Lounge (Lincoln's newest Irish poser). For full Chicago listings, see our restaurant guide and nightlife guide.
In Chicago, check out a new listing for Lava (a relocated bar losing something in transition). For full Chicago listings, check out our nightlife guide.
The Windy City suffers an abundance of starchy hotel bars, so there could be little downside to applying a mega-dose of Trumpian glam to the scene. A tippling complement to the Trump International Hotel & Tower's chic foodie mecca Sixteen, the flash new mezzanine-level watering-hole Rebar (opening April 18) will feature dramatic floor-to-ceiling windows with ravishing river views (especially glittery in the evening hours), as well as an undoubtedly expensive marble bar and a private VIP room overlooking the lobby. And bartenders seem ready to live or die by some sort of nouveau mixology manifesto known as Liquid Kitchen, which we can only imagine means cocktails so tasty you’ll wish you could eat them.
In Chicago, check out new restaurant listing Iguana Cafe (great, cheap American eats in tiny room) and new bar Bluelight (the unfortunate new incarnation of classic dive 4AM). See full listings for Chicago in our restaurant guide and nightlife guide.
If we were perfect, face it, you’d be a little suspicious. And indeed, the late 2007 opening of this cocktailers’ paradise did manage to sneak by us; but a recent life-altering visit made it necessary to correct this tragedy. Enter through a secret, (naturally) boarded-up Wicker Park façade into a film-set-dramatic Victorian gothic space (all lavish curtains and resplendent chandeliers) manned by sexy, tattooed hipsters in vintage evening wear.
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Food & Wine has announced their Best New Chef list for 2008. Among the celebrants are two Chicago cheffers, namely Koren Grieveson of 
