Kate Stahl | March 11, 2011 8:02 amOne of my favorite brunch spots, Logan Square hot spot Lula Cafe still manages to feel like a hidden gem — even when you're waiting an hour for a table. Luckily for Lula's devoted fans, that wait time will (hopefully) be going down soon, when owner Jason Hammel expands the 11-year-old space this Spring. A partnership with Kevin Heisner (who also co-owns Nightwood with Hammel), the new Lula Cafe is taking over a neighboring storefront to create a pastry gallery for new pastry chef Kate Neumann, who formerly worked at award-winning restaurants Blackbird and Hot Chocolate.Read More
Kate Stahl | February 14, 2011 8:00 amDreamed up by husband-and-wife pastry chefs Dimitri and Keli Fayard, Vanille Patisserie proves that an authentic French pastry shop is right at home in Chicago. After all, Dimitri is from France while Keli is a Chicago native; the two met while working at a pastry shop in New York and decided to open Vanille Patisserie in 2003. Inside the Lincoln Park shop (a second location is located in the Chicago French Market), you'll find an almost overwhelming selection of culinary delights, including petit fours, tarts, macarons, and Dimitri's specialty, entremets, or mousse cakes.Read More
Kate Stahl | January 12, 2011 8:03 amWith the frigid, frosty weather outside, you would think most food trucks would just find a warm garage somewhere and wait until Spring. But lucky for us, that's not the case. Here's the grub-on-the-go news this week.Read More
Kate Stahl | March 11, 2011 8:02 am
One of my favorite brunch spots, Logan Square hot spot Lula Cafe still manages to feel like a hidden gem — even when you're waiting an hour for a table. Luckily for Lula's devoted fans, that wait time will (hopefully) be going down soon, when owner Jason Hammel expands the 11-year-old space this Spring. A partnership with Kevin Heisner (who also co-owns Nightwood with Hammel), the new Lula Cafe is taking over a neighboring storefront to create a pastry gallery for new pastry chef Kate Neumann, who formerly worked at award-winning restaurants Blackbird and Hot Chocolate.
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