Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Avec, a restaurant that has operated in the West Loop for ...

After more than 17 years as one of Chicago’s most widely acclaimed and notoriously cramped restaurants, Avec (615 W. Randolph St.) is finally ready to expand. On Feb. 12, One Off Hospitality, the ...

One of Chicago’s most noted restaurants — avec — is opening its first suburban location this spring. The restaurant, part of One Off Hospitality, will open at 250 Waukegan Ave. in Highwood. This will ...

The popular West Loop restaurant Avec is opening a rooftop patio today in River North. Bar Avec is on the eighth floor of 640 N. LaSalle Drive. Though they have separate entrances, the patio is in the ...

When I moved to Chicago in 2004, Avec was already legendary; a tiny, always-packed restaurant that was virtually impossible to get into and was on every food nerd’s bucket list. Twenty years later, ...

The votes are in for Chicago's best restaurants of the year according to Zagat. The restaurant review site surveyed thousands of people across the country and analyzed the results for each city based ...

Avec's chorizo-stuffed, bacon-wrapped dates are on the move. The beloved West Loop restaurant from Off One Hospitality announced today plans to open a second location in River North. Avec 2.0 will ...

They’re the kinds of places you take out-of-towners, to really show off your city. Whenever I have colleagues or chefs in town, I always take them to a place that’s been in the West Loop since before ...

The longtime bookkeeper for well-known West Loop restaurants Blackbird and Avec had a simple explanation for the FBI when she was arrested for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from her ...

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