New Year’s Eve doesn’t mean you have to lay out a bundle on a party package. Have fun at these spots for under $30 per person. AJ Hudson’s Public House, Wrigleyville, no cover. Toast the New Year as it hits the United Kingdom at 6 p.m. CST, and then again, stateside, at midnight, with Champagne [...]
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Applesauce or sour cream? Hanukkah starts tonight at sunset and continues for eight days. Score your potato pancakes at a different place every day. Angel Food Bakery, Ravenswood. Ashkenaz, Gold Coast. The Bagel, Lakeview and Skokie. Eleven City Diner, South Loop. Frances’ Deli, Lincoln Park. Manny’s, South Loop. Max’s, Highland Park. Steve’s Deli, River North. You don’t have to cook Christmas dinner. North Side, South Side or in the Chicago suburbs, you don’t have to cook your own Thanksgiving dinner. Chicagoland restaurants offer bountiful holiday feasts. Call for hours and menu details. Reservations are highly recommended if not required everywhere. Many restaurants also offer complete Thanksgiving dinners for carry out — several days’ notice is typically required. [...] Beaujolais Nouveau 2011, the first young wine made this season in the Beaujolais region of France, goes on sale at the stroke of midnight the morning the third Thursday of November with great celebration around the world. Here are a few places that will be pouring it in Chicagoland beginning Nov. 17. Mon Ami Gabi, [...] Bring about 10 of your closest, pork loving pals to Frontier in West Town any Monday through Wednesday and share your own whole smoked pig. The porker, plus caesar salad and sides including five-cheese mac, johnny cakes and succotash, costs $400, and requires a reservation at least five days in advance. Don’t have so many [...] Costumes and specialty cocktails, pumpkins and beer. Halloween is for everybody — kids, adults, families and singles. Check out a few of the events going on this weekend around Chicago: Cactus Bar and Grill Halloween Benefit, Loop, 11 a.m. to 2 a.m. Friday, Oct. 28, free to attend, donations of canned goods encouraged. All-day celebration [...] ChicaGourmets! goes country with a fall farm-to-table dinner. At 6 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 25, the venerable local dining club, with genial hosts Don Newcomb and Jim Price, will visit Rustic House in Lincoln Park. The dinner will offer Chef Jason Paskewitz’s classic American dishes made with fresh, seasonal ingredients, including meats from Gepperth’s Meat Market [...] The little locavores are having a lovely time today. Watch them, catch them unawares, And see them picnic on their holiday. Green City Market celebrates the conclusion of its annual Locavore Challenge with a picnic supper at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 21, featuring farm-fresh local food from Limelight Catering. The dinner, held at the Peggy [...] The queens of Chicago vegetarian cuisine, Karyn Calabrese, owner of Karyn’s Fresh Corner in Lincoln Park and Karyn’s Cooked in River North, and vegan columnist Kay Stepkin, former owner of Chicago’s first vegetarian restaurant, launch a series of raw and cooked vegan food preparation classes in Calabrese’s new state of the art studio kitchen. Students [...] |
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