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Businesses Readers Are Raving About

Want to brag about the businesses you fell in love with in 2012? It's not too late to comment in the article below!

Readers showed their favorite businesses some love on Patch recently after we asked, Which New Business Did You Fall in Love with in 2012? Taco Diablo in Evanston received three shout-outs. Patch user Kathleen Tribble-Strong commented that the Mexican restaurant was a pleasant surprise.  “I went there with one of my co-teachers and then took my grown kids there for lunch the next day,” Tribble-Strong wrote. Great food and really wonderful AND personable staff. Plan to go back with more friends and family.”  Patch user Harvey Newcomb and Mayre Press both say the restaurant is a great additions to Davis Street.  “Great food in cool surroundings. A hip addition to a struggling strip of downtown,” Newcome wrote.  Another Evanston business, See…

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New Mexican Restaurant Plans to Be Authentic, Even in Name

Authentico slated for mid- to late July opening in Lake Forest.

Too many cooks in the kitchen doesn’t apply to Lake Forest’s new Authentico, a Mexican restaurant expected to open in mid- to late July. Co-owners Javier Solario and Gina Troiani are excited about bringing their passion for homemade cooking to the public, but they admit, “there is not just one cook in the kitchen in our family.” Visitors will be able to taste decades of refinement in authentic Mexican dishes from Solario’s mother, Maria Luisa Solario, who is also Troiani’s future  mother-in-law. Maria Luisa looks forward to sharing her secret family recipes when Authentico opens for dinner only in addition to daily catering events. “From an early age I watched Saturday preparations for the big Sunday family dinners in Mexico,” Maria Luisa …

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