• Best Pizza in Chicago | Chicago Magazine – Best Pizza| November 2015 # 7 Big Chef Burgers WHAT  Spiffy café WHERE  Schaumburg STYLE  Neapolitan TOP PIE  No. 7 Surprise! A restaurant with a patty-slinging name in a suburban strip mall just happens to serve top-notch pizza. Once you figure out that the big chef is […]

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  • Chicago Tribune Big Chef Burgers Here’s your standard, two-handed pub burger with no obvious flaws, prepared with good ingredients and intentions. You can throw a rock blind and hit a place like that in Chicago. But because its home is in Schaumburg (much love to the northwest suburbs), where the gourmet burger per capita is […]

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  • Daily Herald Big Chef Burgers Opening a burger restaurant isn’t exactly a move into uncharted waters, but given the popularity of America’s favorite sandwich, it’s small wonder that so many restaurateurs — from chains to independents — continue to enter the market. One of the latest entrants to give it a go is Big Chef […]

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  • Where to find the best burgers in Schaumburg By Judy Marcus, There aren’t that many places in the northern suburbs where you can find a really great hamburger. There’s the reliable Hackney’s. And there’s Jameson’s on Dundee in Arlington Heights, which is my personal favorite for burgers. But now there’s a new restaurant to join the […]

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  • Big Chef Burgers to Open January 8, 2014 Chef Cristiano Bassani, owner of Bapi Ristorante in Arlington Heights, opens Big Chef Burgers, a new gourmet burger and pizza restaurant in Schaumburg, Illonois on January 7. Big Chef Burgers is a casual and relaxed full-service restaurant that features fresh gourmet burgers, wood-fired Neapolitan pizza, homemade gelato […]

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  • Noted Chef Cristiano Bassani opens Big Chef Burgers in Schaumburg Cristiano Bassani with a Big Chef Spicy Burger (Posted By Kurman News,  January 7, 2014) Posted By Kurman News, Community Contributor10:11 a.m. CST, January 7, 2014 Chef Cristiano Bassani, owner of the popular Bapi Ristorante in Arlington Heights, opens Big Chef Burgers, a new gourmet […]

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  • Noted Chef Cristiano Bassani opens Big Chef Burgers in Schaumburg Chef Cristiano Bassani, owner of the popular Bapi Ristorante in Arlington Heights, opens Big Chef Burgers, a new gourmet burger and pizza restaurant in Schaumburg, Ill on January 7. Located at 1602 E. Algonquin Rd. (just east of Meacham Rd.) (telephone: 847-221-8539; www.bigchefburgers.com), Big Chef […]

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  • Tuesday sees the opening of Schaumburg’s first new restaurant of 2014 — Big Chef Burgers. The “Big Chef” is 6-foot 6-inch, Italian-born Cristiano Bassani, who became executive chef for Carlucci Restaurant in Downers Grove in 2004 and remains owner of the BaPi Italian Restaurant in Arlington Heights, which he opened in 2005. Differing in approach […]

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  • SCHAUMBURG—Big Chef Burgers, a new restaurant from Arlington Heights’ Bape Ristorante owner Cristiano Bassani, opens tomorrow at 1602 E. Algonquin Rd. in Schaumburg. In addition to burgers, the restaurant serves Neopolitan-style pizza, gelato milkshakes, and features a full bar. [EaterWire]   http://chicago.eater.com/archives/2014/01/06/suburban-pizza-maker-joining-paulie-gees-james-beard-winner-coming-to-nico-more.php

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