Brio Tuscan Grille

Brio Tuscan Grille

The contemporary Italian chain—and sister to Bravo—specializes in Tuscan-style favorites

Snapshot: Bread's rise

Forget spongy dinner rolls and stodgy pats of butter. Bright, unique items—some in imaginative shapes and flavors—are filling up the bread basket these days.

The new offerings will be available on weekdays at the restaurant’s bar area.

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Tart-sweet apples are the perfect complement to crisp fall days. With so many varieties being harvested, apples are at the ready to add autumn notes to poultry, meats, salads, desserts, breads and more.

This spring vegetable is usually treated like a fruit, relegated to the dessert menu for use in a pie or tart. Now restaurants are expanding rhubarb's role as a versatile vegetable that pairs as nicely with meat as it does with strawberries.

Matthew Rice, pastry chef at Girl & the Goat, celebrity chef and co-owner Stephanie Izard’s inventive small-plates concept in Chicago, knows that customers like a mix of flavors, textures and temperatures in plated desserts and gives us a sneak peek at his creative late-summer menu addition.

Certain trends grab the culinary spotlight and refuse to die—even when diners and chefs can no longer stand to hear about them. One view at why some of these trends may merit continuing attention in 2014, while others should be tossed aside with the last of the New Year’s confetti.

Given the staggering increase in year-over-year sales, one might expect there to be a corresponding uptick of mentions of chocolate hazelnut spread on menus, but in fact the number of menus that mention chocolate hazelnut spread has remained right around 2 percent of all menus for the past year and a half.

With an eye toward millennial diners, the menu is getting remade at the group’s two Italian brands—with a focus on freshness, customization and a new layout leading the charge.

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