As we ring in 2025 and reminisce on all of the previous year’s memories, the writers and editors of the Tribune food section have looked back at all the delicious dishes and drinks we had in 2024. From tasty tacos to decadent desserts to complex coffee, here are the bites that we’ll remember. — Kayla Samoy, food editor Best things we ate and drank in 2024, in alphabetical order by restaurant Sticky date cake from Armitage Alehouse The sticky date cake with brown butter gelato from Armitage Alehouse in Lincoln Park, on Sept.
24, 2024. (Kayla Samoy/Chicago Tribune) If you’re savvy enough to snag a reservation at this Lincoln Park restaurant, you must order the sticky date cake ($15). This dessert is rich and decadent, but absolutely worth splitting with a friend (or two).
The cake itself is warm and moist, the toffee sauce adds an extra layer of sweetness and the brown butter gelato works to cut through the richness and balance out the flavors for a perfect bite. 1000 W. Armitage Ave.
, 773-270-6402, armitagealehouse.com — K.S.
Vanilla cream and caramel four-layer cake from Brown Sugar Bakery The vanilla, cream cheese and caramel cake, foreground, at Brown Sugar Bakery on April 29, 2020. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune) In Chicago on my birthday for the very first time this year, I had to celebrate the right way: a personalized vanilla cream and caramel cake ($73 for cake, $7 for a slice) from cake goddess Stephanie Hart’s Brown Sugar Bakery in the Greater Gr.
