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Louisa Kung Liu Chu 朱功蕾 @louisachu.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
“The man was identified by his parents as Alex Pretti, an intensive care unit nurse.” Free link here: chicagotribune.com/2026/01/24/minneapolis-immigration-shooting/?share=ioh4oshthtwt2iupitlh
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Man is shot and killed during Minneapolis immigration crackdown, National Guard activated
Federal immigration officers shot and killed a man Saturday in Minneapolis, drawing hundreds of protesters onto the frigidly cold streets in a city already shaken by another fatal shooting weeks ea…
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 24/01/2026
Federal officers shot another person in Minneapolis amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, Gov. Tim Walz said Saturday.
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Federal officers shot another person in Minneapolis amid immigration crackdown, governor says
Federal officers shot another person in Minneapolis amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, Gov. Tim Walz said Saturday.
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Louisa Kung Liu Chu 朱功蕾 @louisachu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
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Feds’ statements after Minneapolis driver killed by ICE officer echo pattern from Midway Blitz in Chicago
The feds’ statement recalls claims from DHS in the aftermath of two federal agent-involved shootings that took place during Chicago’s “Operation Midway Blitz.”
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 08/01/2026
The front page of today's Chicago Tribune. Read the e-edition here: trib.al/Qjtt6Gh
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 14/11/2024
Here's our starter pack to follow Chicago Tribune reporters, photographers and editors. We'll keep this list updated as more members of our newsroom join!
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Louisa Kung Liu Chu 朱功蕾 @louisachu.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
🍪 Free gift link to our story here: 🎁 chicagotribune.com/2025/12/03/2025-cookie-contest-winners/?share=euittcniei2n20022its
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2025 Holiday Cookie Contest winners: Pracny, eggnog crème brûlée and mandelbread recipes come out on top
For the 39th annual Tribune Holiday Cookie Contest, 32 readers submitted recipes for sweet treats, including biscotti and shortbread, bars and balls, and classic chocolate chip and sugar cookies.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 03/12/2025
The three winning cookie recipes for the 39th annual Tribune Holiday Cookie Contest all pay tribute to bakers from years ago; whether it’s a mother, grandmother or a best friend’s mom.
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Tribune’s 2025 Holiday Cookie Contest: Get the winning recipes
The three winning cookie recipes for the 39th annual Tribune Holiday Cookie Contest all pay tribute to bakers from years ago.
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Louisa Kung Liu Chu 朱功蕾 @louisachu.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
🎁 Free gift link to my new reviews here! 🧈🧈 chicagotribune.com/2025/11/25/restaurant-review-bad-butter-bakery-blame-butter-pie-chicago/?share=ebrtuibcput2iroaggtt
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Restaurant reviews: Bad Butter, a cult favorite bakery, and Blame Butter, a pietisserie, in Chicago
Both will be gone by the end of the year as we know them. But is Bad Butter opening a storefront in Bucktown?
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 25/11/2025
Bad Butter and Blame Butter tell the tales of two bakeries in Chicago. It is the best of times, and it is the butteriest of times.
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Restaurant reviews: Bad Butter, a cult favorite bakery, and Blame Butter, a pietisserie, in Chicago
Both will be gone by the end of the year as we know them. But is Bad Butter opening a storefront in Bucktown?
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 19/11/2025
The Michelin Guide Northeast ceremony in Philadelphia on Tuesday night saw Chicago add a new one-star restaurant, Feld, and a two-star restaurant, Kasama, to its repertoire. The ceremony featured restaurants from Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia and Boston.
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Michelin announces 2025 awards, and Chicago has new one-star and two-star restaurants
The Michelin Guide Northeast ceremony in Philadelphia on Tuesday night saw Chicago add a new one-star restaurant, and a two-star restaurant to its repertoire.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 13/11/2025
In her review of Alinea this year, Tribune critic @louisachu.bsky.social gave the restaurant two out of four stars, recognizing the industriousness of the staff, but noting overly sweet, salty and truffled flavors. Plus, it’s time to let go of The Balloon, one of too many signature courses.
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Restaurant review: Alinea turns 20 in Chicago, and our critic says it’s time to let go of the balloon
Alinea, the modernist tasting-menu restaurant marking a milestone 20th anniversary this week, remains the most important fine dining establishment in Chicago, but it’s not at its best.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 13/11/2025
Michelin awarded the restaurant three stars when the guide first came to Chicago, a distinction it had retained since then.
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Alinea by chef Grant Achatz demoted from three Michelin stars in Chicago
Our Tribune review this year said it was time to let go of The Balloon, one of too many signature dishes.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 13/11/2025
Alinea has lost a Michelin star. The French guide announced that the modernist tasting menu restaurant in Chicago, by award-winning chef and owner Grant Achatz, has been demoted from three stars, the highest rating, to two stars.
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Alinea by chef Grant Achatz demoted from three Michelin stars in Chicago
Our Tribune review this year said it was time to let go of The Balloon, one of too many signature dishes.
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Louisa Kung Liu Chu 朱功蕾 @louisachu.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Free gift link to my review here: chicagotribune.com/2025/11/11/restaurant-review-tacotlan-mexican-tacos-quesabirria-hermosa/?share=swauertaaiirschosccn
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Restaurant review: Tacotlán brings deeply rooted immigrant traditions to fleeting food trends in Hermosa
The cozy and chaotic father-and-daughter-owned Mexican restaurant in Chicago is best known for the taco phenomenon known as quesabirria.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 12/11/2025
Restaurant review: Tacotlán brings deeply rooted immigrant traditions to fleeting food trends in Hermosa
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Restaurant review: Tacotlán brings deeply rooted immigrant traditions to fleeting food trends in Hermosa
The cozy and chaotic father-and-daughter-owned Mexican restaurant in Chicago is best known for the taco phenomenon known as quesabirria.
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Louisa Kung Liu Chu 朱功蕾 @louisachu.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
🍕 Free gift link to my review here: chicagotribune.com/2025/10/07/restaurant-review-pizzamici/?share=zghztucrapt1m0cuiasa
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Restaurant review: Pizz’amici making new tavern style pizza history on Grand Avenue in Chicago
The pizzeria makes one of the best thin crusts in the city, but reservations and service can get in the way unless you know the rules.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 07/10/2025
Pizz’amici makes one of the best thin crusts in the city, but reservations and service can get in the way unless you know the rules.
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Restaurant review: Pizz’amici making new tavern style pizza history on Grand Avenue in Chicago
The pizzeria makes one of the best thin crusts in the city, but reservations and service can get in the way unless you know the rules.
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Louisa Kung Liu Chu 朱功蕾 @louisachu.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
🎄 I’m on vacation this week, but had to share, because The Walnut Room holiday reservations go live tomorrow! 🎁 Free gift link here: chicagotribune.com/2025/09/23/guide-walnut-room-reservation/?share=nt9ob3ercwtorwietatl
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Restaurant guide: How to get holiday reservations at The Walnut Room, with a new executive chef, in Chicago
Holiday reservations for the Walnut Room, arguably the season’s toughest tables in town, open Sept. 25 at 9 a.m. on OpenTable.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 23/09/2025
The Walnut Room, the legendary Chicago restaurant best known for Mrs. Hering’s chicken pot pie, opens holiday reservations this week with a new executive chef.
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Restaurant guide: How to get holiday reservations at The Walnut Room, with a new executive chef, in Chicago
Holiday reservations for the Walnut Room, arguably the season’s toughest tables in town, open Sept. 25 at 9 a.m. on OpenTable.
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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Many will have a more comprehensive look at his career. I wanted to do something short on the elusiveness he gave to his characters that made them interesting conundrums rather than a blank No role exemplified this better than 1973’s “The Way We Were." Hubbell, you absolute coward! Gift 🔗
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In appreciation: Robert Redford’s elusiveness on screen made him a more complicated actor
No role exemplified this better than 1973’s “The Way We Were.”
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Louisa Kung Liu Chu 朱功蕾 @louisachu.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
✨ Free gift link to my review here! chicagotribune.com/2025/09/16/restaurant-review-north-pond-chicago/?share=ngcpthi1ies20catwout
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Restaurant review: North Pond reflects new confidence and curiosity of chef César Murillo in Chicago
Executive chef César Murillo has perhaps become best known as a contestant on the reality television series “Top Chef” just this year.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 16/09/2025
North Pond, the rustic yet refined iconic Chicago restaurant open in Lincoln Park since 1998, whose defining chef departed after an award-winning career spanning 20 years, has found new confidence and curiosity through the extraordinary lived experience of executive chef César Murillo.
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Restaurant review: North Pond reflects new confidence and curiosity of chef César Murillo in Chicago
Executive chef César Murillo has perhaps become best known as a contestant on the reality television series “Top Chef” just this year.
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Louisa Kung Liu Chu 朱功蕾 @louisachu.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
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Restaurant news: Luella’s Southern Kitchen makes big moves in Albany Park, among 12 openings around Chicago
Darnell Reed bought the building, marking ownership for the ode to his great-grandmother, who migrated from Morgan City, Mississippi, in 1943.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 09/09/2025
Luella’s Southern Kitchen, the beloved restaurant best known for its buttermilk fried chicken or perhaps crab stuffed shrimp with house-smoked grits, has made a long-anticipated move after 10 years in Lincoln Square — along with a big menu change.
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Restaurant news: Luella’s Southern Kitchen makes big moves in Albany Park, among 12 openings around Chicago
Darnell Reed bought the building, marking ownership for the ode to his great-grandmother, who migrated from Morgan City, Mississippi, in 1943.
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Louisa Kung Liu Chu 朱功蕾 @louisachu.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Free gift link to my review here! chicagotribune.com/2025/08/11/restaurant-review-elawa-farm-cafe/?share=1crh5anwah0bewascehw
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Restaurant review: Elawa Farm, a beautifully bountiful café and market in Lake Forest
The historic former country escape has evolved into a foundation with an ethereal café, elegant market and earnest mission.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 12/08/2025
Elawa Farm, the historic former country escape built by a couple with a meatpacking fortune has evolved into a foundation with an ethereal café, elegant market and earnest mission.
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Restaurant review: Elawa Farm, a beautifully bountiful café and market in Lake Forest
The historic former country escape has evolved into a foundation with an ethereal café, elegant market and earnest mission.
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Louisa Kung Liu Chu 朱功蕾 @louisachu.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
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Restaurant news: Cerdito Muerto, a cocktail bar and Mexican American kitchen, transforms an old family home in Pilsen
Owned by Emidio Oceguera, the space was once his mother’s restaurant, Tacos Palacio, and his late father’s neighborhood pool hall.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 05/08/2025
Cerdito Muerto, a speakeasy-style cocktail bar with a contemporary Mexican American kitchen that’s transformed an old family home that survived the Great Chicago Fire, opened in Pilsen on June 26.
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Restaurant news: Cerdito Muerto, a cocktail bar and Mexican American kitchen, transforms an old family home in Pilsen
Owned by Emidio Oceguera, the space was once his mother’s restaurant, Tacos Palacio, and his late father’s neighborhood pool hall.
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Louisa Kung Liu Chu 朱功蕾 @louisachu.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
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Restaurant review: Las Carnitas Uruapan La Villita, a flagship for pork in Chicago
Las Carnitas Uruapan La Villita brings 50 years of tradition and transformation to a flagship committed to the community in Little Village.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 28/07/2025
Las Carnitas Uruapan La Villita, the newest Mexican restaurant by the first family of pork in Chicago, brings 50 years of tradition and transformation to a flagship committed to the community in Little Village.
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Restaurant review: Las Carnitas Uruapan La Villita, a flagship for pork in Chicago
Las Carnitas Uruapan La Villita brings 50 years of tradition and transformation to a flagship committed to the community in Little Village.
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Louisa Kung Liu Chu 朱功蕾 @louisachu.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Free gift link to my review here: chicagotribune.com/2025/07/14/restaurant-review-mahari-chicago/?share=oeeauaanenw0eiiae277
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Restaurant review: Mahari, a neighborhood home with the cuisine of the African diaspora in Hyde Park
Mahari brings not just the vibrant cuisines of the African diaspora to Chicago, but chefs tracing their cultures and blazing their own paths.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 14/07/2025
Mahari brings not just the vibrant cuisines of the African diaspora to Chicago, but chefs tracing their cultures and blazing their own paths.
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Restaurant review: Mahari, a neighborhood home with the cuisine of the African diaspora in Hyde Park
Mahari brings not just the vibrant cuisines of the African diaspora to Chicago, but chefs tracing their cultures and blazing their own paths.
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Jim W @jimdiego123.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
This place sounds awesome! Also, never read restaurant reviews when you're already hungry.
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Louisa Kung Liu Chu 朱功蕾 @louisachu.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
🎁 Free gift link to my review here 🍝 chicagotribune.com/2025/06/30/restaurant-review-void-chicago/?share=ntn5ogmowccwuesowid0
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Restaurant review: Void, a whimsical Italian American refuge for the weird and wonderful in Chicago
Spaghetti Uh-O’s emerged early as the signature dish since opening in Avondale last August, along with their non-alcoholic No-Lört.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 01/07/2025
While the Italian American restaurant Void does whimsy well, most evident with its Spaghetti Uh-O’s and No-Lört, it’s become one of the best restaurants in Chicago right now, writes @louisachu.bsky.social.
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Restaurant review: Void, a whimsical Italian American refuge for the weird and wonderful in Chicago
Spaghetti Uh-O’s emerged early as the signature dish since opening in Avondale last August, along with their non-alcoholic No-Lört.
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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Bottom line: Season 4 doesn’t feel like a tonal or thematic departure from Season 3 … meaning all the things that viewers liked — and criticized — about S3 are present in S4 That’s 20 eps over 2 seasons. The show’s writers are taking their time! It’s fair to ask if they’ve used it wisely Gift 🔗
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‘The Bear’ review: With the threat of closure imminent in Season 4, can the restaurant live to cook another day?
The ongoing misadventures of Carmy & Co. as they work to sustain a viable fine dining establishment in Chicago.
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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Carmy has recreated the same toxic workplace conditions he disliked so much at the height of his career before coming back home, and I wish the show had committed to exploring that irony … and the idea that it was worth pursuing over the idea of serving high quality affordable food to da masses
The world of "The Bear" is insular, so much so that it has all but forgotten about the vague notion of neighborhood regulars who kept The Beef in business. That it was once a fixture of the community and affordable for anyone.
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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
The series has become more of a character study with only occasional nods to plot. S4 is an extension of that and could have been condensed to fit into S3, leaving room for more propulsive storytelling this time But mostly it had me longing for the qualities that made me love it’s initial outting
I miss the ragtag, kinetic, blue-collar energy established in the first season, when it was a collection of sweaty, frazzled, oddball personalities banging around in that grease-stained, beef juice-spattered kitchen and trying like hell to figure out a way to work together. Here's how Richie remembers the old place: "At the beef stand? You walked in, and that place was rockin', alright? It was alive and you were part of it and it was a vibe in there." And there was a dark comedy coursing through so much of it.
Or as the Tribune's food and dining writer Ahmed Ali Akbar told me last year: The show was originally a story about "Carmy's big head trying to fit itself in that small kitchen and every individual having their own reasons for resisting him. But ultimately, they can't, because he owns the place."
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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
REVIEW: “The Bear” is back for Season 4 A digital clock has been placed in the kitchen to count down the minutes over the next two months and if the restaurant’s finances don’t improve by the time it reaches zero, The Bear will close for good. Will the restaurant live to cook another day?
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‘The Bear’ review: With the threat of closure imminent in Season 4, can the restaurant live to cook another day?
The ongoing misadventures of Carmy & Co. as they work to sustain a viable fine dining establishment in Chicago.
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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
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Nina: Let me go off on a quick tangent: One of my critiques of a show like HBO’s “The White Lotus” is that it’s not an effective satire because it has no interest in the experiences and (likely scathing) point of view of the people who do all the manual labor that keeps these five-star resorts in pristine condition. The housekeeping staff see everything (and are tasked with cleaning it) and they are often treated as invisible — or worse. (“The Chambermaid,” which was Mexico’s 2019 Oscar submission, is a great corrective.) 

To that same end, I was curious about the dishwashers at The Bear. Who are they? What are their stories? Are they new hires or holdovers from The Beef? What do they make of all the shouting in the kitchen? (Maybe they don’t care about any of the drama!) I’m curious about all the facets needed to run a restaurant, so I’m interested in other things beyond the “sexier” work of devising these intricate menus. Do dishwashers ever socialize with kitchen staff, or is there a pretty clear class line dividing them? Where does the waitstaff fall in terms of status at a restaurant like this?

Ahmed: I also want to learn more about them! It’s a bit hard to say with any broad generality, but I’d certainly want to know how this particular set of dishwashers relates to the rest of the staff. In my experience, you’d get some of the most interesting stories about restaurants and the industry speaking with dishwashers, cashiers and other behind-the-scenes workers.

The show is torn between its interest in workplace dramedy and character study on grief and family. I miss longer seasons of TV where those characters could be breakouts if they had more space.
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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
With Season 4 of "The Bear" premiering this week, here's a piece from last year where I talked with my vfood & dining colleagues about the show's depiction of class and status in restaurant kitchens — both @louisachu.bsky.social and @radbrowndads.bsky.social had such great insights! Gift 🔗
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Column: Class and social status in the kitchen and ‘The Bear’
A Chicago sandwich joint switches to fine dining, but restaurants of all types are an ecosystem where class issues play out. How well — or not — does “The Bear” tackle these themes?
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Louisa Kung Liu Chu 朱功蕾 @louisachu.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
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Restaurant news: My Pi closing last pizzeria in Bucktown after 54 years of deep dish
Plus the Poperoni in more pizza news, among openings around Chicago, and the closing of CosMc’s in the suburbs.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 27/05/2025
My Pi, the pizzeria founded on deep dish in Chicago, which once had 17 restaurants across the country, will close its last shop after 54 years next month.
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Restaurant news: My Pi closing last pizzeria in Bucktown after 54 years of deep dish
Plus the Poperoni in more pizza news, among openings around Chicago, and the closing of CosMc’s in the suburbs.
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john j. kim @jkimpictures.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Story about Afghan family of nine fleeing Taliban rule to make Chicago home www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/17/a...
Hamid Azizi walks home with five of his seven children, including Zhra, 10, from left, Surya, 14, Sarah, 7, Roya, 13, and Razma, 12, after picking them up from school in the West Ridge neighborhood Friday, May 2, 2025, in Chicago. Azizi helped clear land mines in his native Afghanistan and assisted U.S. military special forces from 2017 until 2021, when the Taliban regained control of the nation. The family fled to Kabul, then Pakistan and Qatar, finally arriving in the U.S. in April. (John J. Kim/Chicago Tribune) The Azizi family, including father Hamid, center left, mother Fahima, right, with their seven children, gather at the dinner table for snacks after school at their new home in the West Ridge neighborhood Friday, May 2, 2025, in Chicago. Razma Azizi, 12, center, plays with a neighbor child as her sister, Zhra, 10, runs past in a courtyard outside their new home in the West Ridge neighborhood Friday, May 2, 2025, in Chicago.Razma Azizi, 12, prays alongside her father, Hamid, in the living room of their new home in the West Ridge neighborhood Friday, May 2, 2025, in Chicago. Hamid Azizi helped clear land mines in his native Afghanistan and assisted U.S. military special forces from 2017 until 2021, when the Taliban regained control of the nation. The family fled to Kabul, then Pakistan and Qatar, finally arriving in the U.S. in April.
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Zareen Syed @zareensyed.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Hamid, a former US military ally, and his family have been fleeing Afghanistan since US troops withdrew in 2021. When Trump admin suspended refugee assistance programs, No One Left Behind stepped in before it was too late. They're now resettling in Chicago ❤️ www.chicagotribune.com/2025/05/17/a...
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‘I think it’s here’: Uprooted Afghan family settles in Chicago after being rescued ahead of refugee program suspension
Because Hamid Azizi helped U.S. forces in Afghanistan, the Taliban became a threat. After years on the run, his family arrived in Chicago.
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Louisa Kung Liu Chu 朱功蕾 @louisachu.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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Restaurant review: Funeral Potatoes, magical Midwestern comfort food, at Moonflower cocktail bar in Chicago
Thoughtful monthly and weekly food specials, and even a whimsical mystery grilled cheese sandwich, heighten the experience.
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Louisa Kung Liu Chu 朱功蕾 @louisachu.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
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Restaurant review: Funeral Potatoes, magical Midwestern comfort food, at Moonflower cocktail bar in Chicago
Thoughtful monthly and weekly food specials, and even a whimsical mystery grilled cheese sandwich, heighten the experience.
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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 22/04/2025
Funeral Potatoes, a magical modern Midwestern comfort food restaurant, has found an idyllic home at Moonflower, an exemplary neighborhood cocktail bar in Portage Park, nestled among the bungalows on the Northwest Side of Chicago, writes Tribune food critic @louisachu.bsky.social.
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Restaurant review: Funeral Potatoes, magical Midwestern comfort food, at Moonflower cocktail bar in Chicago
Thoughtful monthly and weekly food specials, and even a whimsical mystery grilled cheese sandwich, heighten the experience.
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Restaurant review: M’daKhan, Middle Eastern food by way of backyard barbecues in Little Palestine near Chicago
The bestselling smoked beef ribs, a pair piled high on a platter, explores the convergence of culinary cultures.
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