Check, Please leaves the table, a guide to African food in Chicago, and remembering someone who helped make us a food city

A map of where to eat in 77 neighborhoods, Dolinsky is back (but not longer the Hound), and reviews of Rose Mary and Baha

The science doesn't support closing restaurants, the Beards stall till '22, goodies from ghost kitchens, and a review of Chicago Culinary Kitchen

Fat Rice returns as NoodleBird, a pretty new spot for pretty Thai desserts, Perilla is second-gen Korean, and reviews of Hunan Cuisine and Kasama

Arriverderci to Spiaggia, small places make the big time, homegrown books on food, and reviews of what I ate in Madison

Why Chicagoans got fed, a guide to summer drive-ins, how the Trib should shake things up, and reviews of mfk. and Naudi Signature Pizza

Italian on the X axis and American on the Y axis, the origins of deep dish and the newest one in town, save Klas!, and reviews of Venteux and George's Deep Dish

A woke cocktail conference implodes, the history of whitefish salad, a new writer on the high end, and reviews of Apolonia and Bokeh

50 years of Lettuce, 84 years of J.P. Graziano, can Nini's come back?, and how to use giardiniera

It gets harder to review reviewers, farmers markets are fun again, what the new Ken Kee is about, and reviews of Sushi Suite and more