Take a residential palace. Add incredible views. Dress it up with refined classic European furnishings. Then gently toss in visiting teens and tweens with hormones run amok. The result is the Teen Concierge program from the Four Seasons Hotel Chicago that has the inside skinny on the coolest boutiques and hippest eateries in Chicagoland. Cynthia…
Don’t you just love summer? The smell of barbeques, family reunions, warm weather, and of course, baseball. One of my favorite things about summer is the outdoor concerts, festivals, and parades. The editors of MSN have composed a list of must see attractions for the summer. Choices include spending an evening at New York Central…
In the world of retail shopping, nothing, but nothing, epitomized fashion, style and first-class service over the past 154 years like Marshall Field’s in Chicago. With a 13-story atrium, a 7-ton clock at State & Washington street on the Loops, this mammoth flagship “Cathedral of All Stores” will become a Macy’s on July 30, thanks…
The Chicago Tribune’s Metromix recently published a story about the city-wide culture fest known as the holiday season. Whether you celebrate Christmas, Kwanzaa, Hanukkah or something else, there’s something for everyone in The Windy City… Explore these neighborhood activities: • Lincoln Square – The German cultural organization DANK is hosting a Chrismas Party with music…
You don’t actually have to visit the Windy City to experience sinfully delicious chocolate blended with spices you never dreamed would taste so good. After all, most people just click on their terrific Web site to order a tempting assortment of exotic, extraordinary and unusual truffles: www.vosgeschocolate.com
If it looks like sushi, smells like sushi and tastes like sushi, it must be sushi. Right? Not quite. Homaro Cantu, executive chef of Moto in Chicago’s meatpacking district, is actually printing sushi images on pieces of edible paper –– made of soybean and cornstarch, flavored with powdered soy and seaweed seasonings. Then he blends…