With Monti's located right around the corner from Nhu Lan Bakery, choosing where to get a sandwich in Lincoln Square just got infinitely more difficult. More

Spoon Thai's slogan—"Fabulous Noodle Dishes!"—may as well have been a tractor beam. But you'll have to look on the restaurant's "secret menu," which an intrepid non-Thai diner went to the trouble of translating a few years back. Among these items the restaurant once assumed to be too intense, pungent, and spicy for the American palate are a handful of noodle dishes. More

While the menu at Monti's in Lincoln Square lists a variety of different sandwiches, soups, and salads, it's undoubtedly the cheesesteak that most people will be interested in. Currently, it is the only place in Chicago using Amoroso's rolls. More

Resi's Bierstube and Laschet's Inn are two of the last remaining old-school German taverns that once peppered the area around North Center and Lincoln Square. Of course, they both serve spätzle, so I devised a spätzle vs. spätzle competition, which somehow lead us to Spy vs. Spy. More

The real allure of Los Nopales is that you can enjoy parts of taqueria experience that are usually hurried over and unloved. Sure, its BYOB stance means that it doesn't have to devote any manpower to kicking out over-sized margaritas. But more importantly, it has a fairly concise menu for a taqueria its size, and you get the feeling that every dish might be worth ordering. More

To kick off Knockout Noodles, I'm starting with a visit to Cho Sun Ok, the small, yellow-signed Korean BBQ in Lincoln Square; in addition to meats and fish pan-seared at the table, Cho Sun Ok also specializes in naengmyeon, or cold noodle dishes. More

The best bánh mìs are all about contrasts, and this one is right on point. The warm baguette is the perfect foil to the chilled ham, headcheese, pâté, and pork rolls that make up the meat of the sandwich. The pickled carrots and daikon are enlivened by the fresh cilantro. The cool cucumber and spicy jalapeño cut the rich, creamy pâté. More

"Stefano's uses the secret trick of Chicago stuffed pizza by using quantity as a means of getting to quality." Serious Eats contributor Daniel Zemans checks in with another piece of intel on the Windy City pizza scene. Daniel also blogs... More

Every writer suffers from at least a touch of melancholy. As a food writer, though, my touches of depression are not from anything as pedestrian as the existential weight of the world. Rather, at least once a week or so,... More