Friday food porn: Porked burger

The “Delta King” burger starts with a ½-pound char-grilled beef patty on a fresh baked bun, layered with coleslaw, American cheese, bacon, lettuce, tomato, onion and slow-cooked barbecued pork slathered in Chicago-style “BarBQphoria” sauce. Alongside comes your choice of sweet corn tots, mashed potatoes, mashed sweet potatoes, curly fries, sweet potato Fries, mac and cheese, [...]

Bring out your best burgers

What do you put on your burgers? Post a photo and description of your most delectable burger creation and Patty Burger in the Loop may feature it on their menu for through September and award you one free burger a week for three months. Enter by posting your burger’s picture and description to the restaurant’s [...]

What’s on that burger?

It’s burger season at Rockit Bar & Grill! Celebrate their sixth annual Burgerfest, today through Saturday, June 10, in River North, and Friday through Sunday, June 9 through 11 in Wrigleyville. Chefs James Gottwald and Amanda Downing’s creative line up of daily burger specials,range from ostrich patties to smoked-salmon burgers. Monday, June 6: Big Bird [...]

Happy 40th anniversary, Lettuce Entertain You

Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, perhaps the single most influential company in Chicago restaurant history, celebrates its 40th anniversary on Friday, June 10, at the place that started it all, R.J. Grunts in Lincoln Park. Burgers will be $1.50 in tribute to the original 1971 price, and a DJ will spin ’70s tunes all day and [...]

Chicago celebrates a meaty month of May

Here’s what a few Chicago restaurants are doing to celebrate meat in May.

The Food Dude does the Hamburger Hop

Who makes the best burgers in town? We found out at the Illinois Restaurant Association’s Hamburger Hop this fall. Featured in this video are: John Coletta, Quartino, River North Dirk Flanigan, Gage, Loop Kevin Hickey, Four Seasons, Streeterville Ryan Laroche, NoMi, Magnificent Mile Steve Palmer, and Steve Lawhorn, Palmer Place, LaGrange Chad Starling, Aria, Loop [...]

Friday food porn: Can you take all of Big Timmy?

Two half-pound beef patties, layered with cheddar, Jack, mozzarella and Swiss cheeses, piled with strips of bacon and onion straws and dressed with barbecue sauce, lettuce and red onion, then served with french fries and onion rings.

Join the fight for life: Dine out on Thursday

The single largest HIV/AIDS benefit in the country, the 17th Annual Dining Out for Life, takes place Thursday, April 29. A portion of your meal check at a variety of Chicago and suburban restaurants will benefit AIDSCare Progressive Services, an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for Chicagoans with HIV/AIDS through housing,

Friday food porn: The Monk Burger

The 9-ounce Monk Burger from The Lucky Monk in South Barrington comes blanketed with Tillamook cheddar and layered with lettuce, onion, tomato and pickles on a toasted sesame bun, accompanied by a side of hand-cut fries (not shown), $9.95.

Earn triple points at Lettuce Entertain You today

Today is Triple Points Day at Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises! Members the restaurant group’s Frequent Diners program will threefold points toward future meals if they dine at participating restaurants today. Lettuce Entertain You was the first Chicago chain to offer a Frequent Diners program, one of many innovations the company, perhaps the single most influential [...]