Autre Monde. The place to be for near west suburban Sunday brunch is this Berwyn hot spot, operating better than ever after a nasty fire last year. The must-try dish is Partridge & Pancake ($13), a riff on chicken and waffles as well as a tip o’ the toque to Autre Monde’s husband-wife chef team, Dan Pancake and Beth Partridge. Sadly, there’s no actual partridge in the dish, though the juicy fried…
The mystery restaurant in this month’s Name That Restaurant game is Autre Monde, and the featured dish is gnocchi with duck sausage. Chef Matt Saccaro at Autre Monde developed the gnocchi with duck sausage based on a simple principle he picked up from his Italian grandparents…
Sunday, March 10: Explore the cuisine of Barcelona at Autre Monde (6727 W. Roosevelt Rd., Berwyn, 708-775-8122). The restaurant’s Spanish Sundays Supper series currently features three tapas-inspired courses for $40. Dishes include traditional Catalan stew, braised short rib with chorizo, and flan with lemon cookies.
If you traveled to Berwyn to dine, it’s likely you were in search of Czech dumplings or tacos. But the July opening of Autre Monde Cafe and Spirits gave west suburbanites a very different sort of dining destination. A sophisticated but accessible Mediterranean restaurant whose…
Bacon Steak at Autre Monde…That’s right—it’s not bacon, it’s a bacon steak. These folks cure the pork belly…
It wasn’t a good summer for this impressive suburban restaurant; on June 28, a fire put it out of commission for almost three months. ” Most of the kitchen had to…
When food writers want to describe something as modern, we fall back on some variation of “It’s not your father’s steak house/grandmother’s diner/uncle’s BBQ shack.” Autre Monde, a bustling Med-flavored café from a pair of Spiaggia vets, is plenty modern–but any member of your family would feel comfortable there …
With its natural wood bar, vintage French movie posters, and eclectic feel, Autre Monde Cafe could be in some trendy Chicago neighborhood, but it’s not. It’s in Berwyn, and that’s a good thing. If it were otherwise, I’m sure I’d never have gotten in on a Friday night without a reservation, even at the bar.
John Aranza, Christine Tully Aranza, Dan Pancake and Beth Partridge—all Spiaggia alums—opened this Mediterranean spot, and in doing so have single-handedly made Berwyn a dining destination. …
Autre Monde’s menu has all the requisite ingredients that prove its Mediterranean cred: octopus, sardines, olives. Oh, and there are chickpeas, just not where you’d expect. The creamy garbanzo beans slide surreptitiously onto the dessert menu…
Award winning Mediterranean Restaurant with hip, wine bar feel, featuring shared plates, farm to table sourcing and the flavors of Italy, Spain, Portugal, France, Greece and Morrocco. Bar features, craft cocktails and beer and a creative…
Though any of the housemade pastas from this humble trattoria could have landed on this list, these pockets of delicate tortalacci stuffed with goat cheese and topped with a shaving of black truffle are like tiny, edible presents to Berwyn, to pasta lovers, to everyone lucky enough to get their hands on them. …
Autre Monde opened this summer on Roosevelt in Berwyn, and it’s been drawing a lot of attention from traditional media (Chicago Tribune, TimeOut Chicago) as well as crowd-sourced bulletin boards (LTHForum.com, Yelp). We went there last week and were knocked out by the food. Here’s some of what we had. …
Autre Monde puts the western suburb on the fine-dining map
To corrupt an old saying, the good Lord never closes a condo without opening a bungalow. …
This neighborhoody pan-Mediterranean bistro could easily be a subject of one of those “Why Berwyn?” billboards that have popped up all over Chicago to convince potential home buyers of the charms of New Svengoolieland. …
Sophisticated Mediterranean cuisine in Berwyn
Flame-kissed octopus with red-wine caper vinaigrette, burrata showered with herbs, and vegetables with nutty romesco are three dishes we never expected to find in Berwyn. …
This neighborhoody pan-Mediterranean bistro could easily be a subject of one of those “Why Berwyn?” billboards that have popped up all over Chicago to convince potential home buyers of the charms of New Svengoolieland. The four principals behind Autre Monde all worked under Tony Mantuano in various restaurants. Former Spiaggia wine steward John Aranza’s nerdtastic horrorbilia decorates the bright, inviting Berwyn storefront with a long communal table running down the front and a spacious bar in the back. And the menu…
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