![]() The restaurant celebrates plant-based Middle Eastern cuisine with Sephardic and Israeli influences. 31st St., 77, Sephardic Sistersįrom the owners behind the former vegan restaurant Kal’ish, Sephardic Sisters is now open in Uptown. The plant-based menu includes Musto’s cult-favorite burger The Bix Max, a vegan Italian beef called The Don, buffalo and sweet soy wings, chk’n Caesar salad, as well as desserts, including Oreo or carrot cupcakes. Milwaukee Ave., 77, HerbivoreĪfter doing pop-ups at Kimski and working out of a shared kitchen in Humboldt Park, chef Max Musto opened Herbivore’s first bricks-and-mortar restaurant in Bridgeport this month, in the former Pizza Fried Chicken Ice Cream Space adjoining Maria’s. Jean Banchet Award-winning pastry chef Leigh Omilinsky joins the team to round out the restaurant’s rebrand and will prepare Passover and Easter pastries including kosher lemon sponge and flourless chocolate cake, coconut macaroons, cinnamon roll kouign amann and strawberry cream scones. The Logan Square pasta-focused restaurant reopened at a larger location Wednesday after shuttering its original spot this month. Taylor St., 77, More notable new restaurants, listed in alphabetical order: Daisies 2.0 “But when we found it, we couldn’t pass up the chance to open up on Taylor Street,” Mason said.ġ512 W. Oakley Ave.Īsked if it was intentional that Taylor’s Tacos found a spot on Taylor Street, Mason said it just happened to work out that way. “You can create a full meal with tacos,” she said.Īlong with Taylor’s Tacos, Taylor and Maya Mason also own Taylored, an event space at 2451 S. Her tacos use smaller tortillas, about 4 ½-inches across, so guests can put together a balanced meal by ordering a few meat tacos and a few veggie tacos. If you don’t have the sour cream, it’s not a Black taco.” “Then it’s topped with lettuce, tomato, cheese and definitely sour cream. “A Black taco starts with a flour tortilla, seasoned meat, that’s usually ground,” she said. But she was also influenced by the tacos she grew up eating in the predominantly Black West Side of Chicago. The first is traditional Mexican street-style taco, the ones with corn tortillas and freshly grilled meat, topped with salsa, cilantro, onion and lime juice. Two kinds of tacos inspired the idea for the concept, Mason said. “We have a fantastic team, and all the tools are ready for us to build something great.” Taylor St.), which will soft open April 4. Two years later, the married couple is thrilled to finally have their own bricks-and-mortar restaurant in Little Italy (1512 W. Instead, owners Taylor and Maya Mason worked out a deal with Dock’s Fish in Bronzeville to offer a limited menu, while handling large catering orders out of The Hatchery on the West Side. In 2021, it landed on my list of best new tacos, even though the concept didn’t technically have its own restaurant. Chicagoans - from Lena Waithe to Chance the Rapper to this critic - have been salivating over Taylor’s Tacos for years.
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