Summertime at last! Is there anywhere better than Chicago to spend Memorial Day weekend? We don’t think so. Here are just a few of the things to do this weekend. Watch the Chicago Memorial Day Wreath Laying Ceremony and Parade in the Loop, 11 a.m. Saturday, May 28, free. After the opening ceremony at the [...]
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Here’s what a few Chicago restaurants are doing to celebrate meat in May. Cherishing your mother needn’t break the budget. Just about every restaurant in town is offering brunch or dinner specials for Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 8, but these sweeten the pot with free items for Mom. Try something a little different this Easter, with these out-of-the-ordinary options. Go high on the hog at Lillie’s Q in Wicker Park with its smoked-hog supper. The big pig meal, $325 for six to eight diners, includes a 25- to 30-pound whole hog smoked for about 10 hours, served with starters and sides plus a presentation and info session by Chef Charlie McKenna, who will bring [...] With Labor Day weekend coming up and the last big barbecues of summer, it seems a fitting time to talk about these meaty emporiums, known for their cookout supplies, hot links and hand-cleaned chitlins. I can see that, when even Mr. Zee’s, a Greek snack shop in Morton Grove has rebranded itself as Mr. Gee’s B.B.Q. on Demand, the barbecue trend might be getting a little ridiculous. But I think it’s fantastic — bring it on! All styles, all flavors, the more the merrier. Let’s have Kansas City-style, St. Louis-style, Texas-style, South Carolina-style, you-name-it-style … heck, we can even encompass Western Kentucky barbecued mutton. A whole chicken cooked upright with an open can of beer stuffed up its hindquarters, beer-can chicken has become a staple of summer cookouts. Wicker Park’s Smoke Daddy invites you to name its new smoker, a massive Southern Yankee smoker trailer. What would you add to the list? What would you leave off? |
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