Here’s what a few Chicago restaurants are doing to celebrate meat in May.
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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. Cooking for that special someone this Valentine’s Day? Here are a few of our favorite romantic recipes from Chicagoland restaurants. Bistro 110, Magnificent Mile: Mussels with coriander and lemon, an aphrodisiac. The Chicago Firehouse, South Loop: Bananas Foster, will add fire to any romance. Ethiopian Diamond, Edgewater and Rogers Park: Doro tibs wat, spicy finger [...] 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 [...] It’s a lucky 13 for Chicagoland’s oldest and largest general dining club, some 700 members strong…. 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. At Prasino in LaGrange, Chef Scott Halverson tops avocado halves with lobster, mango salsa and chili-butter sauce. Happy Earth Day! Today is the 40th anniversary of the first hippie-inspired, national environmental consciousness raising in 1970. Here are a few things you can do to mark the day. Drink a Treetini. For every one of the $9 cocktails — blended frin VeeV Acai Spirit with fresh agave nectar, club soda, a splash of [...] Two foodie book events are on the menu this week: Jeff Hertzberg and Zoë François will kick off the promotional tour for their new cookbook, “Healthy Bread in Five Minutes a Day,” with a signing at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 28, at Borders in LaGrange. David Sax will give a talk and reading from his [...] |
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