While visiting from Korea, I decided to take my old college friend Stephanie from Howe in the World on a culinary adventure in Chicago. After a day of eating our way around the South Side, we ended up in Pilsen Continue reading
La Palapa Mariscos is one of those hidden gems on the south side of Chicago, where you practically have to be a local to know anything about it. La Palapa is one of the very few Nayarit state Mexican restaurants Continue reading
For years, La Pasadita has been known as the best taqueria north of the Eisenhower in Chicago, but does the reputation live up to to its title? My opinion is hell no. I heard all about the hype and legend Continue reading
Outside the bars late at night on the northwest side of Chicago, a stocky, mysterious man strolls up and down the nightlife hotspots wielding a strange red cooler. Inside the red cooler are Chicago’s best tamales. He is known as Continue reading
In just about every Mexican household and restaurant in the city, Spanish rice is served as a side dish with almost every meal along with beans. Each cuisine featuring this dish, whether it’s Spanish, Mexican, or Moroccan, has it’s own Continue reading
Chicago is well known for having the best Mexican food in the world, but it seems as if the line between tex-mex and authentic Mexican cuisine is being blurred more and more. Most people don’t even know what authentic Mexican Continue reading