There’s just something so quaint and lovely about a charity event titled “Chefs’ Playground.” On May 16, a myriad of top chefs from across the country will converge at Terzo Piano to partake in said Playground, an inaugural charity event benefitting the Academy for Global Citizenship. The AGC is a Chicago public charter school on the southwest [...]
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River North is the place to be on Thursday, May 9, when The Redhead Piano Bar hosts “Cabaret for a Cause” from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Hear the song stylings of diva Frieda Lee, enjoy food and drinks, and have the satisfaction of know that it’s all in support of an important cause. With the [...] The Oscar Mayer Wienermobile will among some 20 full-size trucks on hand at the Kohl Children’s Museum’s eighth annual “Touch A Truck” event from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, May 5, at Fields Chrysler Jeep Dodge, 670 W. Frontage Road, Northfield, Ill.. Kids can climb aboard full-sized trucks in a completely safe environment during [...] Continung the concept of Earth Day every day, at 6 p.m. on Monday, May 20, Chef Paul Fehribach of Big Jones in Andersonville hosts a “trash fish” dinner highlighting sustainable but rarely used species such as dogfish, smelt, speckled trout and triggerfish, which are typically discarded by fishermen as bycatch. Joining Fehribach in creative uses [...] “Opera Rocks” at Monastero’s in Sauganash at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, April 7, when Verismo Opera Theater presents a gala operatic greatest-hits evening. The event features a concert of arias and duets from “Carmen,” “La Boheme,” “Madame Butterfly,” “Marriage of Figaro,” “Pearl Fishers,” “Werther,” “Susannah” and more, with singers including Verismo tenor Bradley Schuller, mezzo sopranos [...] The 17th Annual Girl Food Dinner brings together some of Chicago’s top chefs — who happen to be female — for an evening of food and wine in support of the Greater Chicago Food Depository’s fight to end hunger in Cook County. The dinner, hosted by Chef Susan Goss and Drew Goss, takes places at [...] Mallory Hagan, Miss America, fries flapjacks for National Pancake Day at IHOP. Area IHOP restaurants will serve free short stacks of buttermilk pancakes on National Pancake Day in an effort to raise awareness and funds for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. Diners are invited to donate; the chain hopes to raise $3 million. All donations will [...] January, as you may know, is National Soup Month. Even though the weather is mild this week, you know more cold is coming. Here are a few places to warm up with satisfying soups. 2 Sparrows in Lincoln Park goes global a different meal in a bowl each week at lunch. Chef Gregory Ellis highlights [...] Peanut butter and jelly dacquoise features creamy peanut butter mousse and raspberry jam sandwiched between peanut meringue with salted peanut brittle. The dessert will be served as part of Chef Heather Terhune’s decadent four-course dessert and champagne event, 2 to 4 p.m. tomorrow at Sable Kitchen & Bar in River North. Bartender Mike Ryan will [...] Soup & Bread, the weekly winter fundraiser at The Hideout in West Town ramps up for its fifth season, commencing Jan. 2. The every-Wednesday event serves free — what else? — soup and bread, made and donated by volunteers, to anyone who attends, while collecting pay-what-you-can donations for a rotating roster of charities. This year, [...] |
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