From our BEST new restaurants of the decade feature: Stango Cuisine is apparently the only Zambian restaurant in the United States, which is pretty damn awesome for us. We named it one of the BEST new restaurants …
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BEST new restaurants of the decade: Honorable Mention, Masijta Grill
From our BEST new restaurants of the decade feature: Ten years ago, I had never had Korean food. C-U is such a robust and diverse community, it’s amazing to think that I moved from the …
BEST new restaurants of the decade: Honorable Mention, Huaraches Moroleon
From our BEST new restaurants of the decade feature: Opening on the edge of East Urbana in an unassuming restaurant space previously home to Sweet Betsy’s a million years ago, Huaraches Moroleon is now truly …
BEST new restaurants of the decade: Honorable Mention, Everyday Kitchen
From our BEST new restaurants of the decade feature: The whole concept of Lodgic Everyday Community in and of itself is a pretty daring feat — to combine coworking, childcare, a cafe, and a restaurant …
BEST new restaurants of the decade: Honorable Mention, Carmon’s
From our BEST new restaurants of the decade feature: As I made mention in our BEST Food + Drink of the decade feature, Carmon’s was just entirely too short lived. It kinda pains me to think …
A quick guide to recreational marijuana becoming legal tomorrow
Two dispensaries in Champaign-Urbana will have recreational marijuana for sale starting tomorrow, January 1st, at 6 a.m., as Illinois is legalizing recreational marijuana state wide. Sunnyside in Champaign (formerly known as Phoenix Botanical), is owned by …
BEST new restaurants of the decade: Honorable Mention, Broadway Food Hall
From our BEST new restaurants of the decade feature: Very few entrepreneurs have the courage that Matt Cho does. After initial success with Cafeteria and Co. and Sipyard, he set his sights on a bigger …
BEST new restaurants of the decade: Honorable Mention, Baldarotta’s
From our BEST new restaurants of the decade feature: What started out as a catering business, hustling porketta sandwiches at pop ups and special events, has turned into a full fledged restaurant, and expansive menu, and …
BEST Reunion of the decade: American Football
From our BEST Music of the decade feature: The reunion that we didn’t really expect to see that would send waves across the world of midwest emo was American Football getting back together after nearly …
BEST Guitarist of the decade: Teddy Lerch
From our BEST Music of the decade feature: This is an opinion shared by Patrick Singer and myself, so we are going to go with it. Fact is, there are tons of great pickers and …