Friday food porn: Something meaty at midday

Rio’s D’Sudamerica’s lomo saltado is packed with sirloin strips marinated in traditional Peruvian-Asian spices and piled with sauteed onions, tomatoes and melted mozzarella on French bread, $6. Find the sandwich on the weekday lunch menu at the Bucktown eatery.

Friday food porn: Spicy roll

Braised lamb in a curry reduction, finished with pickled onions and fresh cilantro chutney and wrapped in flatbread, $5.99, at the Loop’s new fast-casual Indian lunch spot, Bombay Wraps.

Six Chicago restaurants that have stood the test of time

Happy anniversary to these Chicagoland restaurants! It’s well known that most eateries don’t make it to their first anniversary, so count these as successes. Market Bar, West Loop, celebrates its second anniversary today with beer tastings starting at 6 p.m.; tomorrow, a Ketel One patio party with a hosted open bar, beginning at 6 p.m. [...]

Friday food porn: Do it Canadian style

The signature Montreal-style smoked-meat sandwich at Furmare Meats in the Chicago French Market features French Canada’s answer to pastrami: well-marbled beef brisket cured, naturally smoked, peppered and slow-cooked on the the West Loop premises daily ($8.99). The meat is also sold by the pound, in case you want to stock up for Superbowl noshing.

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 start; [...]

Remembering the World’s Columbian Exposition

At 10 a.m. Saturday, April 10, technology expert Charles Valauskas will talk about the World’s Columbian Exposition and its firsts in food and food technology.

Soup’s on! Hull-House Kitchen relaunches ‘Re-Thinking Soup’

And they say there’s no such thing as a free lunch. The Hull-House Kitchen resumes its weekly free soup and conversation sessions, “Re-Thinking Soup,” at noon tomorrow with gazpacho from Hull-House Farm heirloom tomatoes and a talk by Joshua Viertel, former president of Slow Food USA. The Tuesday lunches bring together food activists, farmers, chefs, [...]

$5 burgers at Primehouse this week

Well, we’d planned to take Memorial Day off, but we just had to tell you: It’s “Burker” Week! David Burke’s Primehouse in River North features $5 signature burgers at lunch daily through Saturday, May 30. These aren’t just any old beef patties. We’re talking 40-day dry-aged-in-house prime beef on a bun. If bird is your [...]