• Recover from the Bad Bunny party with Meze Table at the next Monday Night Foodball

    Everybody’s yiayia makes gigantes plaki. “It is the quintessential Greek comfort food,” says Elizabeth Gartelos-Morris. “Everybody’s grandma makes these. [They’re] super fat, broad beans—a butter bean—slow simmered in tomato sauce. The sauce gets kind of crusty, and the beans get all puffy and soft, and the texture is really velvety and crazy.” “They’re really best […]
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  • Lazy dumplings at Maplewood Brewery & Distillery

    If one becomes what one eats, there might not be a more full-circle plate of food than the leniwe kluski that comes out of this Avondale brewpub’s new kitchen. Chef Joanna Janczurewicz’s Polish-powered menu is just one recent diversification this decade-old brewery adopted to resist the shrinkage that’s besetting the craft beer industry. But among […]
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