Chicago Food Blogs to Read Now that Eater Chicago Is a No-Go
Eater Chicago isn't happening. Which makes us all a little sad—in some ways. All the news of openings and closings and comings and goings would have been well-handled by the Eater formula. An Eater site would have been a sort of recognition that Chicago had truly made it as a food city. Alas, it wasn't meant to be.
So, aside from our own regular coverage of Chicago eats, we wanted to list some of our favorite Chicago food blogs.
- Hungry Magazine: Serious Eats contributor Mike Nagrant helms this bona fide food magazine. He and his contributors update daily with a new review, think piece, recipe, or food memoir, always accompanied by great photography
- MenuPages Chicago: Edited by Helen Rosner, this aggressively updated site has got some sharp and funny writing—the Review Revues, the news roundups, and the original content make it a daily stop. A nearly unhealthy obsession over Grant Achatz and Michael Nagrant
- Drive-Thru, by Gapers Block, is a good-looking all-around smart Chicago food blog
- 312 Dining Diva: Aggregates the press releases like nobody's business. The daily posts are a must-read for knowing who'll be at the clubs, which chefs are on the move, and where to find dining and drinking deals around town. It's pink
- Time Out Chicago: OK, so it's a print magazine, but not only is all the weekly content available online, but there's also the TOC blog that seems totally plugged in: They're the ones who broke both the appointment of Ari Bendersky to helm Eater Chicago—and the news of the site's indefinite postponement
- LTHForum: Not a blog, but a super-active forum that's the place to go for up-to-the-minute news on openings, closings, chefs, and special events
Did we miss any?
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5 Comments:
How could you forget an actual blog. For a one man team with no revenue or ad's this is as legit as it gets. the Italian Beef review is something special. No?
http://chibbqking.blogspot.com/
KingT at 4:32PM on 11/04/08
Chicago Gluttons! How could you forget this post: The Greatest Restaurant in the Entire World???!!!?
Adam Kuban at 4:45PM on 11/04/08
Too bad Eater Chicago didn't make it. With or without it, though, Chicago has long been a food city. Think Charlie Trotter. Think Rick Bayless. Think hyper-experimental restaurants like Moto and Alinea and locavore-committed new restaurants like mado. Think excellent versions of just about every stripe of ethnic cuisine out there. Yes, this is a food city, all right.
BlueKitchen at 11:00AM on 11/05/08
Another great Chicago food blog is The City Vegetable. Its creator is Shannon Fitzgerald who hails from NYC and just recently relocated to Chicago. It combines recipes, culture, photography and fresh veggies! Check it out.
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ZehraO at 11:01AM on 11/06/08
Lots of good information here. thanks!
MikeTheWaiterDotCom at 8:11PM on 11/23/08