Lawrence Letrero and Raquel Quadreny have always pushed the envelope with their Ravenswood restaurant, Bayan Ko. When they opened it in 2018, they found the intersection points of Filipino and Cuban ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- There is only one Chicago area restaurant combining both Filipino and Cuban cuisines in the city's Ravenswood neighborhood. Bayan Ko is a result of the origins of the husband-and-wife ...

Silogs: sunny-side up eggs over garlic rice with tomato salad and your choice of meat Credit: Sandy Noto for Chicago Reader Eggs and coffee are the two most essential elements on a proper breakfast ...

A mix of Filipino and Cuban cuisine at Bayan Ko Credit: Sandy Noto The song “Bayan Ko” (“My Country”) is a wistful Filipino anthem, about a beautiful land suffering (and hopefully prevailing) under ...

This year has brought a variety of new restaurants, bars and bakeries to Chicago, from Filipino-owned Umaga Bakehouse to Evan Funke’s Tre Dita. It can be hard to keep up with all the openings. So as ...

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