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Chicago Gourmet Mon Sep 03 2012

Eat Now, Go to Chicago Gourmet Later

chicago gourmet 2012Bon Appétit and the Chicago Gourmet food festival has a deal for you: spend at least $35 at five of the 80 restaurants participating in this year's Dine Around program between Sept. 1 and Sept. 30, save the receipts and you'll get a free one-day ticket to Chicago Gourmet, which runs Sept. 28-30 in Millennium Park.

For the math-impaired, $175 gets you $178.63 worth of ticket ( $159 plus tax and fees). So you're paying your way in food -- but that's hardly a hardship, right? Plus, each restaurant will offer a special $35 prix fixe menu to make the whole deal a little easier. (You're welcome to order off the menu and still get the deal, though.)

Dining Around — 2012 Participating Restaurants
• Allium at Four Seasons Chicago
• Argent Restaurant & Raw Bar
• Arun's Thai Restaurant
• Avli Estiatorio
• Balena
• Big Jones
• Bittersweet Pastry Shop
• Café des Architectes at Sofitel Chicago Water Tower
• Chalkboard
• C-House Restaurant
• Courtright's Restaurant
• deca RESTAURANT + BAR at the Ritz-Carlton Chicago
• Devon Seafood + Steak
• EPIC
• Firefly Grill
• Floriole Bakery & Café
• Frontier
• Gibsons RestaurantGroup
• Green Zebra
• Harry Caray'sRestaurantGroup
• HEARTY
• Henri
• Hugo's Frog Bar & Fish House - Chicago Location
• Hugo's Frog Bar & Fish House - Naperville Location
• III Forks
• iNG Restaurant
• Inovasi
• IPO
• June
• Keefer's Restaurant
• Lao Sze Chuan
• Le Colonial
• Lockwood at the Palmer House Hilton
• Leopold
• LUXBAR
• May St. Contemporary Latin
• Mercadito
• Mercat a la Planxa
• Mexique
• Midtown Kitchen & Bar
• Moderno
• Myron and Phil Steakhouse
• Nacional 27
• Nellcôte
• NoMI Kitchen
• Oceanique Restaurant
• Old Town Pour House
• Old Town Social
• One North Kitchen & Bar
• Paramount Room
• Pecking Order
• Phil Stefani's 437 Rush
• Piccolo Sogno
• primebar
• Prosecco
• Province
• Quartino
• Quay Restaurant & Bar
• Red Door
• Riva
• RL Restaurant
• Saigon Sisters
• South Water Kitchen
• Tavern on Rush
• Tavernita
• Texas de Brazil
• The Bristol
• The Drawing Room
• The Gage
• The Grillroom Chophouse & Wine Bar
• The Metropolitan Club
• Toni Patisserie and Café
• Townhouse Restaurant & Wine Bar
• TuscanyTaylor
• Uncommon Ground onClark
• Uncommon Ground on Devon
• Union Sushi + Barbeque Bar
• Zapatista - Lincoln Park
• ZED451

 
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Feature Thu Dec 31 2015

The State of Food Writing

By Brandy Gonsoulin

In 2009, food blogging, social media and Yelp were gaining popularity, and America's revered gastronomic magazine Gourmet shuttered after 68 years in business. Former Cook's Illustrated editor-in-chief Chris Kimball followed with an editorial, stating that "The shuttering of Gourmet reminds...
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