Plenty of Chicagoland restaurants are happy to help you greet Rosh Hashana 5771 on Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 8–9.
You could take your mom out for the usual Mother’s Day brunch this Sunday, May 9, but why not go where she’ll get a little something extra?
Celebrate with D.O.C., Hugo’s and Gibsons
Today is Triple Points Day at Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises! Members the restaurant group’s Frequent Diners program will threefold points toward future meals if they dine at participating restaurants today.
Lettuce Entertain You was the first Chicago chain to offer a Frequent Diners program, one of many innovations the company, perhaps the single most influential [...]
Feed your hangover and get a little of the hair of the dog that bit you at New Year’s Day brunch.
33 Club, Old Town, noon to 4 p.m.
A la carte brunch items include hand-sliced smoked salmon, whole wheat banana pancakes, challah french toast, eggs benedict and omelets.
Dunlays on the Square, Logan [...]
You don’t have to eat Chinese food on Christmas.
Is there anyone left cooking Thanksgiving dinner at home? Most restaurants used to close on Thanksgiving, but no more.
Last week I ran a list of 25 Chicagoland restaurants serving Thanksgiving dinner and apparently only scratched the surface. I’ve heard from dozens more Chicago and suburban restaurants that will be open on Thanksgiving.
So here are [...]
Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivé!
Well, nearly. On the third Thursday of each November, the new wine of Beaujolais is uncorked for the world. By French law, Beaujolais Nouveau may be released no earlier than 12:01 a.m. on that date.
More than 65 million bottles, nearly half of the region’s total annual wine production, are [...]
David Leonardis
I just had a fantastic steak, au gratin potatoes, warm pumpernickel raisin bread and a wailingly decadent sundae at Wildfire in Oak Brook.
After which I went to see “Couples Retreat.” It was kinda funny watching this movie on a third date. I asked the girl I was with if she had a message she [...]
“Imagine your life in chocolate,” says Mars Inc., promoting Dove Chocolate Discoveries, its direct-sales scheme for peddling its confections like Tupperware or Avon products.
The company is recruiting chocolate ladies at two “Girls’ Nights Out” this week where women can indulge in free chocolate martinis and smoothies and listen to the pitch. The events take [...]