Check, Please!

All things restaurant-related in Chicago and beyond! Fridays at 8 pm on @WTTW. Check out our new digital series Check, Please! To Go.

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Throughout October, Black People Eats is hosting Blaktober, a virtual food festival featuring discounts and specials at Black-owned restaurants. #BlackVoicesWTTW

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“Who has ever done a tasting like this?” @ParachuteResto, @rohinivermilion, @SarahStegner, @DemeraEthiopian, and more women restaurateurs are collaborating on tasting menus that crisscross Chicagoland and the globe:
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We're nominated for a Chicago/Midwest Emmy!

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Outstanding Achievement for Magazine Programming - Program/Special/ Series • Check, Please!

Congrats to @checkpleasefeed, @ekgundy and @CheckpleaseDave!

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Watch an extended & narrated version of my @wttw #ChicagoPortrait on Claudio Velez, aka Chicago's 'Tamale Guy.' Claudio is currently hospitalized and recovering from COVID-19. His new restaurant Tamale Guy Chicago has been closed for a week: https://t.co/iC3xyoTuGo

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Julia Momose of @BarKumiko spent three months collecting petition signatures and pressing lawmakers to allow carryout cocktails. It worked.

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At least 33 states and the District of Columbia are temporarily allowing cocktails to go during the pandemic.

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The James Beard Foundation announced on Thursday that it’s scrapping its award presentation altogether for 2020, having already pushed back the ceremony from May to September.

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The Tamale Guy has a restaurant! @wttw takes a look:

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Meet the Tamale Guy: a Chicago food vendor/folk hero for 20+ years. After the city sent him a cease and desist letter in May for operating w/o a food license, the community rallied around him via @gofundme. I visited his new restaurant for my 4th @wttw #ChicagoPortrait feature:

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It may not be an ideal time to launch a highly anticipated fine dining restaurant, but Ever is opening today - revisit @markbazer's conversation with the team behind it: https://t.co/Fi8rjjjVER

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Jeremy Joyce started @blackpeopleats in December 2017 as an online directory of Black-owned restaurants in Chicago — and it has since expanded to other U.S. cities.

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Since their first delivery in early April, furloughed restaurant workers Kevin Yoo and Bill Phan say they’ve delivered over 3,200 meals to 13 Chicago hospitals – and they hope to keep it going as long as the need continues.

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.@chefjoseandres' nonprofit @WCKitchen will feed workers at two new testing sites designed to expand the number of tests for the coronavirus in Latino communities, which have been hit hard by the pandemic.

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What the restaurant industry needs to stomach the pandemic.

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“Inordinate amounts of fees” charged by delivery apps cut into restaurants “very tight” margins, Mayor Lightfoot said.

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“I don’t know how many restaurants – or any business – can go 16 weeks with sales down 80% and survive,” said @IlliniRestAssoc.

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The earliest that bars and restaurants will be able to reopen to customers – even in a partial capacity – is late June.

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The James Beard Awards, the US's most-watched food industry awards, have announced their finalists in a time of great uncertainty for the industry. Here are the Chicago finalists:
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TONIGHT🐟🦐 We revisit nine of the spectacular #seafood spots Check, Please! has visited - from sushi spots to seafood in a bag to a smoke shack. Fri 8 pm

And support local restaurants with 🛍 takeout or delivery! Find a takeout guide >> https://t.co/ss3zjNk2Lg
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"If you love restaurants, we need your help more than ever right now,” says Alpana Singh.

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While schools are closed, learn to cook with your kids thanks to daily recipes, activities, and quizzes from @TestKitchen in their new, free Kitchen Classroom:

https://t.co/Bs79jxWsdo

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See what Chicago restaurants are offering takeout and delivery during the closure of all restaurants for dining in at:
https://t.co/RX0stlbyi7

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It's #PiDay, so may as well celebrate pie too!:
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