Slurp your way through September wine tastings

Drink up, wine lovers! You can sip, slurp and sample your way through September with a wide variety of wines being poured at Chicago-area steakhouses.
From 5:30 to 7 p.m. every Thursday in September, Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse in River North and Lincolnshire will showcase its latest selection of 100 wines served by the glass. At [...]

Eat this! Prime rib, big cuts of beautiful beef

“Prime rib” refers to thick cut of roast beef, usually from a bone-in, standing rib roast. It’s typically simply seasoned and slowly roasted, making it an easy and impressive company meal.

Eat this! Cherries, a fruit to cherish

Julie Swieca created this cherry recipe for the Geja’s Cafe 45th Anniversary Recipe contest. Geja’s anniversary celebrations, June 27 through July 1, also include a 45-percent discount off food bills.

Hot Chicago hotel menu happenings

Chicago’s hotel restaurants are sizzling this summer. Here’s a sampling:

Stetson’s Chop House in the Loop’s Hyatt Regency Chicago has added a $38 three-course set menu to recently enhanced regular menu. Served daily before 6:30 p.m. and after 8 p.m., the prix fixe offers a choice of French onion soup or caesar salad to [...]

Go green, get a discount

Help the environment, take some exercise and get a little green back.

21 freebies for Mother’s Day in Chicago

You could take your mom out for the usual Mother’s Day brunch this Sunday, May 9, but why not go where she’ll get a little something extra?

Chicago restaurants flipping the switch for Earth Hour

Dine in the dark and show you care about the planet. From 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday, March 27, local restaurants and bars will turn out the lights and serve by candlelight in observation of Earth Hour, an international movement of concern about global climate change.

Happy anniversary! Chicago restaurants invite you to celebrate

Celebrate with D.O.C., Hugo’s and Gibsons

Chicago Chef Week brings more dining discounts

Chicago Chef Week is coming, March 22 through 28. Like last month’s Chicago Restaurant Week, this is a period of prix-fixe dining deals, with $20 lunches and $30 dinners, this time from local chef-driven restaurants.

Night out: Visit Middle Earth this Saturday

Journey with Montreal’s Theatre Sans Fil to J.R.R. Tolkein’s Middle Earth, as the company performs “The Hobbit,” the wonderful adventure of Bilbo Baggins on his epic journey to a new level of wisdom, staged as a marvelous adaptation with 48 giant puppets bringing to life Bilbo, Gandalf, Gollum, a 25-foot dragon and others.