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June 2025

The Door Worth Opening
Success does not come through quality, truth, or hard work.
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Michael Nagrant
YaYa...Maybe
The June sunlight curls its fingers through an arched window past a jade curtain, dapples its magic across the surface of a spindle-backed chair…
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Michael Nagrant
12
Why I’m Taking Warlord Off The Essential Chicago Restaurants List
A reflection on how we coddle dangerous cooking genius
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Michael Nagrant
26
Love & Basketball, and Tacos
I come from a long line of Eastern European peasant farmers.
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Michael Nagrant
9

May 2025

Food Critic vs. Influencer, A Review of Chicago’s “Best Thai Restaurant”
If a restaurant opens in Chicago, and all the influencers don’t pimp it in the first week, did it even happen, bro?
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Michael Nagrant
16
A Food Critic Gets Exposed, A Famous Chef Throws Out the Hospitality Playbook
The Hunger weighs in on the tale of a San Francisco Chronicle dining critic almost getting kicked out of the French Laundry
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Michael Nagrant
16
A Return to Feld
Maybe the only thing more horrible than being forced to toast s’mores and make small talk with your executioner is realizing they’re wielding a dull…
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Michael Nagrant
20
The Chicago Tribune Restaurant Review System Is Broken
In whispers and direct messages, former Chicago Tribune Dining Critic Phil Vettel was often derisively referred to as “Three Star Phil”, a signifier of…
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Michael Nagrant
19
It Gets Better With Age
One of Chicago's very best restaurants keeps killing it
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Michael Nagrant
9

April 2025

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