On the Menu As part of the holy trinity of Tex-Mex (the other members being tacos and fajitas), the enchilada appears in diverse forms in our city. And thanks to intense competition among Mexican restaurants, few enchilada platters are really bad, and most are pretty good. Some, however, are just...

On the Menu Because of Cafe Chino, I'm going to have to stop saying that it's hard to find good Chinese food inside the Loop. I've probably passed this restaurant at least a hundred times en route to visiting its strip-mall neighbors, Party City and Rustika Cafe, and ignored it...

ON THE ROAD In the past, I've been criticized by some readers for focusing my restaurant research on establishments inside the Loop. And while it's true that I don't regularly travel very far for my food, I recently found yet another excuse to go way outside my ZIP code. Alvin,...