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Quick Bites

By Chuck Sudo in Food on Jun 4, 2010 5:20PM


  • Stephanie Izard is slowly getting the Girl & the Goat into shape for a scheduled late June opening. [Stephanie izard]
  • Rick Tramonto announced that he's officially leaving Tru, several years after he stopped cooking there on a regular basis. [Rick Tramonto/Twitter]
  • Commit to the Indian Head Pizza. [My Vegetable Blog]
  • One man's chelada is Gemma Petrie's "porch beer." [Pro Bono Baker]
  • The Chicago Sandwich Register. [Grub Street Chicago]
  • Martini Park in River North closed down. [Crain's]
  • One of Mark Bazer's guests on the Interview Show tonight at Hideout is Charlie Trotter. [Mark Bazer]
  • Red Eye's third installment of their "Virtual Kitchen" series will be judged by the Hearty Boys. [Red Eye]
  • The Local Beet has their farmers market tips ready for shoppers. [The Local Beet]
  • Graham Elliot Bowles celebrated the second anniversary of his eponymous restaurant dealing with a diner who wrote a negative review of his restaurant to multiple media outlets, then demanded a 50 percent refund. You can imagine Bowles's response. [Yelp]