100 Chicago restaurants open Christmas Day 2011

You don’t have to cook Christmas dinner.

Santa comes to Chicago for breakfast and dinner

Santa Claus is having a busy social season in Chicago this month and invites families to join him at a variety of holiday breakfasts and dinners around town. The Chicago Park District hosts dinner with Santa at 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, at Eugene Field Park, 5100 N. Ridgeway Ave. in Albany Park, 773-478-9744 ($10) [...]

Sterns, Roadfood to tour Chicago and Milwaukee

Food guidebook authors Jane and Michael Stern and the Roadfood.com crew will be coming to Chicago Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28 and 29, for a culinary bus tour of our fair city as well as nearby Milwaukee. In Wisconsin, the Roadfooders will sample kringle, frozen custard, butter burgers and fish fry. The Windy City part [...]

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 [...]

Friday food porn: You eat what for breakfast?

Egg on your pizza sounds like an April Fool’s joke, but as the photo shows, it’s no such thing. Fired at up to 900 degrees in a brick-faced Mugnaini oven, breakfast pizza della fattoria from Davanti Enoteca in Little Italy features farm-fresh eggs, pork belly, potato, green onion, bechamel sauce and asiago cheese, $9. (Note: [...]

Worldwide solidarity and pizza fuel Wisconsin protest

Join donors from Australia, Canada, China, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, Germany, Korea, Turkey. and dozens of other countries, as well as every U.S. state, and send a pizza to protesters in Madison, Wis.

Nine ways to spend Valentine’s weekend in Chicago

“Yes, Valentine’s Day is this month, and we will be celebrating with all the city’s lovebirds, but why pin the ‘amour’ to only one day?” asks Chef Carol Wallack of Sola> in North Center and we agree. We got 150 press releases about Valentine’s Day, and you can bet that just about every eatery in [...]

Friday food porn: Flat out feasting

Thin-crust Italian sausage pizza, a specialty at Papa Ray’s Pizza & Wings, features spicy Italian sausage, mushrooms, onions and green peppers ($12.50–$19.99). Papa Ray’s has locations in Logan Square, Uptown and Avondale.

Friday food porn: All fired up at Piccolo Sogno

Less is more: Wood-fired pizza margherita, with tomato sauce, mozzarella and fresh basil, $13, at Piccolo Sogno in West Town.