TOC Food: Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread

• It’s testament to the faith of Chicago’s foodophiles that we’ve gone this long without a seriously excellent open-to-the-public bread bakery. David Tamarkin takes us into the kitchen of the man who’s poised to change all that — La Farine’s Rida Shahin, a breadmeister who peddles his yeasty wares to restaurants like Blackbird and Hot Chocolate, and who is going to be opening a storefront bakery in a few weeks.

• Providing some friendly ammo for V-Day, the Food & Drink team also round up three new Cheap Eats suggestions: French-African Le Conakry, where the menu descriptions are vague but the flavors are beautiful; Chicago Curry House, which strays from the traditional Indian lineup into Nepalese territory, with one of our personal favorites: momo (traditional dumplings); and then there’s Cafe Senegal, where the flavors are out of this world.

[Photo of momo: anantab/Flickr]

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TOC Food: Give Us This Day Our Daily Bread