Jennifer Tanaka

May 6, 2024 | chicago.suntimes.com | Jennifer Tanaka

As Chicago icons go, Bing Bread might be right up there with Michigan Avenue and Wrigley Field — at least to people obsessed with eating, which, in this town, is legion. If you never got a taste, the dish, invented at Parachute, a 50-seat restaurant in Avondale, is an adaptation of a traditional Chinese scallion pancake rendered deliciously unrecognizable. The round, yeasted loaf is fortified with potato and cheese, stuffed with bacon, sprinkled with sesame seeds and baked to a mahogany shellac.

Apr 23, 2024 | wbez.org | Jennifer Tanaka

Parachute, their beloved dining gem in Avondale, is dead. But the pioneering duo have set their sights on what comes next. Chefs Beverly Kim and Johnny Clark owned the Avondale restaurant Parachute, which shuttered earlier this year after 10 years of serving refined takes on Korean cuisine. April 24, 2024, 6:00am CT Parachute, their beloved dining gem in Avondale, is dead. But the pioneering duo have set their sights on what comes next.

Mar 25, 2024 | ocregister.com | Jennifer Tanaka

Salt & Straw ice cream’s Snap & Crackle Marshmallow Treats flavor returns for the final weekend of the shops’ Cereal-sly Delicious series. Only available this month, the collection includes other flavors inspired by nostalgia-inducing childhood cereals: Pots of Gold & Rainbow, Peanut Butter Brownie Cereal Puffs, Cornflake Cookies with Marionberry Jam, and OffLimit  Zombie with coconut and pandan. The ice cream that Chrissy Teigen inspired is reminiscent of marshmallow cereal treats.

Mar 22, 2024 | ocregister.com | Jennifer Tanaka

Paradise Dynasty is known for its rotating xiao long bao flavors. The variety and odes to Singapore are what set the xiao long bao restaurant apart from its competitors. (That, and Paradise Dynasty’s flaky radish stuffed pastry, which is extremely popular with South Coast Plaza influencers and food writers.) Paradise Dynasty’s U.S. flagship location launched a collaboration with Phởholic on March 4 to produce phở xiao long bao, or phở XLB. Since then, it’s been selling out daily.

Mar 21, 2024 | ocregister.com | Jennifer Tanaka

Great Maple co-owners Amanda and Wing Joe Ho stand together admiring the black-and-white images of Pixar characters hanging on their restaurant’s walls. One picture is a contemplative Miguel from “Coco” perched next to his loyal pet dog, Dante. On another wall is Jessie the cowgirl from “Toy Story.” The pictures, which were originally slated for the Pixar office walls, are prominently displayed at Great Maple, the ground floor restaurant inside the new Pixar Place Hotel.