Monthly Archives: January 2018
Chicago HOT Restaurants 2018
SOOOOOO many restaurants to choose from in Chicago! There is no way to keep up!
In December, Chicago Mag speculated, “Is Chicago’s dining boom over?
Staff shortages, massive competition, rising rents: The day of reckoning is coming.”
The article reveals, When Rob Katz and Kevin Boehm opened their flagship Lincoln Park restaurant Boka 14 years ago, more than 600 people lined up around the block looking for jobs. How times have changed. These days, when the duo launches a new place, “you put out an ad, you might get 10 people,” Katz says. “What was once a very fertile ground for talent is not any longer. People are fighting just to put a staff together.”
Such is life in the restaurant bubble.
Every month the HOT LIST changes! Yesterday a new list of hot spots came out.
I am so happy to see the Pump Room come back! (Above)
I do agree, how can all of the restaurants survive? This is not New York.

GREAT PHOTOS get lots of LIKES!
Digital photography has given millions of people the opportunity to take pictures like a pro! Never, has there been so many awesome amateur photos posted from the globe!
Chicago.Curbed ran this great article about HOT PHOTO/ Instagram LOCATIONS from around the city. ….From the magical night lights of Wrigley Field to the patina-coated bronze lions guarding the Art Institute and the honeycomb archway in Lincoln Park—there are plenty of good ‘gramming spots in Chicago.
But which ones rank at the top? Locals and visitors favored big venues, well-known tourist spots, international icons and even one major music festival, according to a list of sites provided to Curbed by Instagram.
(Photo above from Sezyilmaz)