A cruel year takes Jonathan Gold, Passerotto is on its way to stardom, Flight Club hits its target, Vettel unmasked, Aba is no Waterloo, and tickets available for Fooditor's South Side Food-I-Tour

Radio Anago gets zero-star static, not a good year for Rosie's or 3SD, arepas everywhere, and a review makes Bar Biscay mad

Grace II won't be spelled Gras, very hot pot and awfully not wet, Mister Taco's Neighborhood, and a poem to Reza's

In menoriam Blackbird's Rick Diarmit, plus reviews of Passerotto, Pacific Standard Time, Vettel goes back to Sepia and how to get a liquor license while Latino

Pacific Standard Time is at the tone, you gotta go Passerotto, Girl & the Freeway, and a Detroit road trip

Chicagoans remember Anthony Bourdain, loving lunch at Frunchroom, Mordecai may singlehandedly make Rickettsville respectable, and a book tells the rise and fall of independent craft beer.

New Alinea chef, new Check Please host, muffuletta magick, look a squirrel! and three sad farewells

Mordecai hits a triple, love in a hotel bar, big talkin' sushi, and people come through for Hard Times

Behind the goats at the Beards, Biscay Vice, arepas are hot, fawncy Bonci and chefs got tools!

Radio Anago has a sushi secret, Nouvelle Next, take a Chicago pizza tour with a hungry hound, and in memoriam to Judson Todd Allen and members of the families behind Superdawg and Italian Village