Midwestern restaurants are exploring the ways Mexican cuisine melds with diasporic ingredients and techniques.

Orozco most recently was the chef and owner of Five O Four Kitchen, a Glen Ellyn restaurant featuring a create-your-own ...

The official James Beard Restaurant and Chef nominees will be announced on Tuesday, March 31, followed by a ceremony reveal ...

On Wednesday, January 14, Michael Marlay, CEO of Time Out Market, announced the company would close its Chicago food hall.

Nylah Iqbal Muhammad is a James Beard Award-nominated food and travel journalist with work focusing on hunting, food sovereignty, and Black and North American Indigenous foodways. Between anxiety ...

A six-table restaurant in Seaside, Florida, named Lazy Daze Cafe is to blame. The 1991 restaurant opening was the first from Kevin Boehm, who 12 years later would, along with Rob Katz, go on to ...

Emily Venezky is an Editorial Associate at Eater and a proud Washingtonian. She fell in love with food while growing up in Los Angeles, eating plenty of street tacos and Sichuan dishes.

Ashok Selvam is the former James Beard Award-winning regional editor for Eater’s Midwest region, in charge of coverage in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities. He’s a native Chicagoan and had been ...

Jeffy Mai was the Associate Editor for Eater’s Midwest region, and has been covering Chicago’s dining scene for over a decade. 2026 is right around the corner and with it, a new crop of restaurant ...

On a balmy Saturday afternoon in March, a crowd gathers in the parking lot as Dirk Fucik, owner of Dirk’s Fish & Gourmet Shop, presides over his customary seafood sampling event. Amidst the alluring ...