The Rainforest Cafe in Chicago has closed its doors forever, a year before its lease was set to expire, Block Club…
Aimee Levitt
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Former associate editor of The Takeout. Chicagoan. Owned by dog.
It’s been a super-long year, but does anyone remember Lucky Lee’s, the “clean” Chinese restaurant that opened in…
TikTok itself might be banned in the U.S. next month. Or it may be bought by Microsoft. No one really knows. But for…
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It seems astonishing that Cheetos never got into the mac and cheese game before now. After all, the key ingredient…
Welcome, dear readers, to The Takeout Draft, our recurring feature that combines our love of food, fantasy sports,…
Even before the pandemic, restaurant owners were disgusted by the exorbitant fees charged by third-party delivery…
Is it fair to say that we all agree that the tipping system in American restaurants is archaic and silly and that…
Ina Garten is not just a barefoot contessa, she is also a kitchen goddess, full of ancient wisdom which she…
State fairs typically attract large crowds of people, and so like all events that attract large crowds of people,…
Andrew Fairchild delivers pizzas for Juneau Pizza in Juneau, Alaska. One of the hazards of this job is that his car…
The other night I was reading a book where three characters go to a unicorn-themed bar. The servers wear horns and…
If you do not live in New York City, you may not have been initiated into the cult of Levain Bakery, a…
For the past month, the city of Chicago has requested that travelers from states with surging COVID-19 infection…
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The PayDay has always been a dark horse among candy bars. It sits on the lower tiers of the candy rack, down with…
As we told you this morning, Four Peaks Brewing Co. in Tempe, Arizona, has decided to release its Pumpkin Porter a…
Remember Michelle from North Carolina? She was the TikTok user who set off an international incident by…
Well, you did know it was coming, right? If you’re going to be eating out in the pandemic, you probably want to be…
The mere words Moosewood Cookbook feel like a time portal back to the ’70s, the age of long-haired hippies in…
There are tea countries and there are coffee countries. Japan is most emphatically a tea country. In the 1970s,…
Everyone says the first year of marriage is really hard. You’re building a life together and a home, and inevitably…