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Weston’s Coffee & Tap Co. serves coffee, craft beer and wine from a storefront at 4872 N. Milwaukee Ave. in Jefferson Park, directly across from the Jefferson Park Transit Center. The café pours Metropolis Coffee through espresso drinks, lattes and cold brew, alongside fresh pastries and breakfast items. The menu …

Forever Yogurt, a self-serve frozen yogurt shop, operates at 2741 N. Elston Ave. in Logan Square, near the Bucktown border. The shop is one of several Chicago-area locations for the brand, which got its start in the city and lets customers pull their own soft-serve from a bank of flavor …

Gordillas, a counter-service Mexican restaurant specializing in Durango-style cooking, operates a location at 5734 S Pulaski Rd in West Elsdon. It’s one of four Gordillas locations in the Chicago area, alongside restaurants in Little Village, Addison, and on West 63rd Street. The menu centers on gorditas, burritos, and quesadillas, with …

MingHin Cuisine’s Chinatown restaurant sits at 2168 S. Archer Ave., serving Cantonese-style cooking and Hong Kong-style dim sum. The Chinatown location is open every day, with dim sum served all day rather than during set hours. The menu covers dim sum alongside full lunch and dinner service, including Cantonese roast …

ZKtutors, an online tutoring service based in Hyde Park, offers one-on-one instruction in math, computer science and SAT/ACT test preparation for students in grades 5 through 12. Sessions are held over Zoom with screen sharing and a digital whiteboard, and families receive a written summary after each lesson. The service …

Tacos Y Burritos El Dorado operates at 3246 W Lawrence Ave in Albany Park, serving tacos, tortas, quesadillas and homemade horchata for dine-in, takeout and delivery, according to the restaurant’s website. The menu lists individual tacos such as taco al pastor ($7.25) and taco carne asada ($8.30), along with breakfast …

Smash Burger House & Wings serves smash-style burgers, chicken wings and Mexican-inspired sides at 3038 W. Irving Park Rd. in Irving Park, in a storefront that previously housed a taqueria. The menu is built around smashed patties made with fresh, not frozen, beef. Options include a Popper Smash topped with …

Sweet Taste has opened at 4748 N. Kimball Ave. in Albany Park, a sandwich and burger counter near the CTA Kimball Brown Line stop. The menu includes a combo plate of two empanada varieties, a steak sandwich with provolone, grilled onion, lettuce, tomato and avocado, a cheeseburger with American cheese, …

Jerk Society has put down roots at 8100 S Stony Island Ave. in Avalon Park, describing itself on its website as a “family-owned, neighborhood-minded” Caribbean-fusion kitchen with “Caribbean roots, Chicago energy.” The menu covers jerk chicken, jerk wings, jerk salmon and jerk shrimp dinners, curry chicken, brown stew chicken, curry …

First Sip Cafe is a coffee and tea shop at 1057 W Argyle St in Uptown, on the Argyle Street corridor near the CTA Red Line’s Argyle stop. The cafe’s menu blends Vietnamese coffee and tea culture with Western-style bites, including specialties like ube Vietnamese coffee, pandan matcha and coconut …

Baha Restaurant, at 4842 W Diversey Ave in Belmont Cragin, specializes in Mexican coastal seafood — mariscos. The menu centers on ceviches, seafood towers and whole fish, built around fresh shellfish and fin fish rather than the tacos-and-burritos format of a typical taqueria. Dishes include Ceviche de Atún and Aguachile, …

Kyōten is a reservation-only omakase sushi counter at 2507 W. Armitage Ave. in Logan Square, led by chef Otto Phan. Guests are seated directly at the sushi bar, where Phan prepares and explains each course as he serves it. The restaurant builds its nigiri on Edomae principles of purity, harmony …

Gingie has opened at 707 N. Wells St. in River North, a contemporary American restaurant led by chef-partner Brian Lockwood in collaboration with the James Beard Award-winning Boka Restaurant Group. The restaurant describes its approach as dishes that feel “both recognizable and entirely new,” built on live-fire cooking and classical …

Boar’s Head Cafe operates a Loop location at 125 S. Wacker Dr., on the ground floor of the office tower at Wacker and Adams, alongside its original café at 210 W. Lake St. The sandwich shop is run by BEBO Hospitality and builds its menu around Boar’s Head brand meats, …

FFC Union Station operates a 75,000-square-foot health club at 444 W. Jackson Blvd. in the West Loop, inside the former Chicago Mercantile Exchange building near Union Station. The club is part of Fitness Formula Clubs (FFC), a Chicago-based, privately owned network founded in 1984 that operates 10 clubs across the …