If you’ve been checking off the “100 Foods to Eat Before You Die,” here’s a chance to get one more … though you might want to save it for last.* Through the end of March, Ai Japanese Restaurant and Lounge in River North currently offers fugu, a potentially deadly Japanese delicacy. This mild-tasting blowfish carries [...]
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Wine, fruit, liqueurs, spices and brandy … it’s National Sangria Day tomorrow, and they’re pulling out all those ingredients and more at National 27 in River North, where from 5 to 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 20, the pan-Latin restaurant and bar will be celebrating by pouring seven different versions of house-made sangria. Look for traditional [...] Bombay Spice Grill & Wine, a new Indian spot in River North, is thinking pink this month. Support Breast Cancer Awareness Month by indulging in a pink drink such as a pink mojito with strawberry vanilla-infused Bacardi Rum ($11), Pink Lady Svedka Raspberry martini ($12), Jeio Rose Cuvee Prosecco ($9), Gotham Project Rose Washington ($7) [...] Bloomingdale’s Shiraz on the Water serves up prime rib with jus, horseradish sauce, veggies and bread and butter every Friday and Saturday night in a three-course special that includes a choice of soup or salad, plus side dish and dessert. Prices range from $24 with a petite 9-ounce cut to $31 with 16-ounce king-size. One hundred years later, Roeser’s Bakery is still going strong. One of Chicago’s premier charity food events of the season, the Green Tie Ball, Saturday, Sept. 17, showcases fare from some 75 Chicago top chefs and food trucks plus premium open bars, a silent auction and several stages of entertainment. The Supreme Lobster Chef Challenge will also hold its final round at the event. Tickets [...] The proof the old advice that one should eat oysters only in months with an ‘R’ in them is obsolete can be found in the date of National Oyster Day: Aug. 5. The caution against eating oysters in the spring and summer months dates from a time when the market consisted largely of Atlantic species [...] It’s been 15 years since Almaz Yigizaw, a native of Gandor, Ethiopia, who came to Chicago as a girl, launched Ethiopian Diamond in Edgewater. Yigizaw was inspired to open the restaurant after coming up with a business plan as a Loyola University class project. In 2009, she opened a second location in Rogers Park. Both [...] 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 [...] 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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