Whether you’re on the North Side, the South Side or in the suburbs, you don’t have to cook your own Thanksgiving dinner. Chicago-area restaurants offer bountiful holiday feasts for almost every budget. Call for hours and menu details. Reservations are highly recommended if not required everywhere. Many restaurants also offer complete Thanksgiving dinners for carry [...]
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Check out these weekend happenings and have a boo-tiful Halloween, Chicago! Casey Moran’s in Wrigleyville’s “HalloweenBash 2010: The Devil Made Me Drink It,” 8 to 11 p.m. Friday, Oct. 29, offers Chef Pete Svachula’s “boo-fet” favorites along with original “shocktails” and domestic beer for $30. Giveaways and a Halloween costume contest also feature that night. [...] Festival season continues in Chicago, with Taste of Little Italy, Northalsted Market Days and the Air and Water Show. The single largest HIV/AIDS benefit in the country, the 17th Annual Dining Out for Life, takes place Thursday, April 29. A portion of your meal check at a variety of Chicago and suburban restaurants will benefit AIDSCare Progressive Services, an organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for Chicagoans with HIV/AIDS through housing, The Kit Kat Lounge & Supper Club in Northalsted serves this fluffy omelet, folded around sauteed spinach and grilled chicken, with a sprinkling of crumbled feta ($12), at its weekly brunch, served 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sundays. What would you add to the list? What would you leave off? What it is: Berkshire pork is meat from a pedigreed breed of black-coated swine prized for juiciness, flavor and tenderness. The breed is also known as kurobuta, Japanese for “black pork.” It is a deeper-hued, more heavily marbled pork than “the other white meat” widely promoted in recent years. “To me Berkshire pork is the [...] The Dining Chicago blog hasn’t been around a whole year yet, and our weekly “Eat this!” recipe column has been going an even shorter time, but that isn’t going to stop us from giving you a list of our most popular recipes from 2009. The list below contains our most-visited recipes from local restaurants. Petterino’s, [...] Haunted drive-in movie, 6:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30, Margate Fieldhouse, Uptown, $5 (includes popcorn and hot dog). Margate Fieldhouse becomes a drive-in movie theater, featuring “The Addams Family.” Seating is limited. ‘Fear,’ 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Oct. 30 and 31, The Neo-Futurarium, Andersonville, $15. Visit the “thinking man’s haunted house” of Edgar Allen Poe [...] What it is: A mixture of rolled oats and nuts, sweetened, and baked till crispy, often mixed with dried fruit. Where it comes from: The roots of granola date to the 19th century and the flaky food faddists who saw whole grains as a means to purity. Originally called “Granula,” Dr. John Harvey Kellogg’s [...] |
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