Eat this! 5 great fall recipes from Chicago restaurants

There’s frost on the windows and a chill in the air. Warm up with these hearty recipes from Chicagoland chefs. Lentils and fennel with sausage, 3 Vines Cafe, Sleepy Hollow. Feijoada, Brazilian black bean stew, Texas de Brazil, River North and Schaumburg. La calabeza rellena, oven-roasted acorn squash stuffed with artichokes, green peas, chile de [...]

Five places to learn to cook with Chicago chefs

Cooking season is here. Time to tune up your cooking skills. These Chicago restaurants want to help you gear up for the holidays with culinary classes. Flip Crepes at the Chicago French Market in the West Loop team demos the art of the French crepe in a “Sweet and Savory Couples Crepe Class” at 10 [...]

Eat this! Causa, creative potato appetizers from Peru

What it is: The Peruvian dish causa rellena features cold pureed potatoes flavored with yellow aji chilies and molded into shapes and layered or topped with any of a variety of fillings, such as or black olives. The technique of carefully infusing the yellow pepper and potato is unique to Peruvian cuisine. Different toppings make [...]

Top 10 Chicagoland Father’s Day freebies for 2011

Have a ball with your dad this Father\’s Day, and enjoy free giveaways from Chicago restaurants.

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 [...]

10 delicious things to do in Chicago Memorial Day weekend

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 [...]

Top 10 places to celebrate Mardi Gras in Chicago

Call it Mardi Gras, Fat Tuesday, Shrove Tuesday or Carnival … it’s the last hurrah before Lent. If you don’t observe Lent, that doesn’t mean you can’t celebrate. Here are our picks for Mardi Gras events around Chicagoland.

Chicago chefs’ best recipes of the year

Every week, “Eat this!” highlights recipes for classic, unique and seasonal dishes, as prepared by Chicago-area chefs. Recently, we compiled a list of the top 10 most popular recipes of 2010. That list wasn’t chosen by us, but our readers, who clicked through to those recipes most often. Here they are again, because they’re worth [...]

19 Chicago places to celebrate National Soup Month

  January is National Soup Month, and these Chicago restaurants are celebrating with souper specials. You can stop in for or bowlful … or you can wear soup on your head. 33 Club, Old Town, $5 soup special, with choices such as roasted tomato served with petite grilled cheese sandwich. Carlucci, Downers Grove, choice of [...]

Top 10 Chicago restaurant recipes of 2010

Top 10 most-popular recipes of the past year from Dining Chicago.