Exactly one month ago, Rich Melman received a James Beard award - kind of a culinary Oscar - named "Restaurateur of the Year." However, the Chicago native wasn't in New York to receive it, he was in ...

As founder and president of Chicago’s Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, Richard Melman can afford to go anywhere and do anything when he wants to get away from the daily grind. Last year, his 37 ...

On December 30, 1917 Seymour Melman was born in New York City. The 100 th anniversary of his birth helps bring his intellectual legacy into focus. Melman was the most significant reconstructionist ...

In an announcement that will surprise few observers, R.J. Melman has been named as president of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises. R.J., at 38 the oldest of LEYE founder Rich Melman’s three children ...

If Richard Melman turns his attention away from a business project to focus on something entirely new, don’t be alarmed. It probably just means the first venture is already a success. That’s been the ...

Ashok Selvam is the former James Beard Award-winning regional editor for Eater’s Midwest region, in charge of coverage in Chicago, Detroit, and the Twin Cities. He’s a native Chicagoan and had been ...

R.J. Melman’s Gold Coast mansion traded in short order for the recently stagnant neighborhood, and at full asking price, a rarity for the area’s high-end sellers. Melman, the second-generation ...

Calvert DeForest, known to millions of fans of David Letterman's late-night talk shows as the bespectacled, raspy-voiced Larry "Bud" Melman, has died. He was 85. By Paul J. Gough, The Associated Press ...

WEST ISLIP, N.Y. (CBSNewYork) --A teenager credits skills he picked up as a junior volunteer in the intensive care unit at Good Samaritan Hospital in helping him think clearly during a brutal grizzly ...

Dozens of Toast-On-A-Stick hung from the ceiling with nylon threads, twirling this way and that – sort of a toast mobile. There was a poster depicting a piece of toast with horn-rimmed glasses on it.