It’s not often I give great thanks to corporate America or the Chicago bureaucracy. But on this occasion—with a stomach…
Puerto Rican
Sweet & Sour
/ 11.02.09There are a lot of things about Belly Shack, the new Chino-Latino (technically the style is “Puerto-rean,†as chef/owner Bill…
Inside the Urban Belly
/ 09.08.08Urban Belly, Chef Bill Kim’s new Avondale noodle and dumpling house, is decent Asian food for unadventurous pseudo-foodies and hipsters…
Modern Comfort
/ 08.28.06It took ethnic comfort food to make me forsake my own mother, but, Puerto Rican jibaritos (hi-bar-itoes)–deep fried plantain sandwiches–and…