Less is more: Wood-fired pizza margherita, with tomato sauce, mozzarella and fresh basil, $13, at Piccolo Sogno in West Town.
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Light Opera Works offers a delicious revival of >Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein’s poignant 1945 musical, “Carousel” through Aug. 28. I’m looking forward to the coming months of sun-ripened, locally grown tomatoes. Jack Sprat would eat nothing flat. 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, What would you add to the list? What would you leave off? Wood-fired, triple pepperoni pizza from La Madia in River North, topped with tomato sauce, mozzarella and loads of pepperoni, finished with white truffle oil, $14. Although you won’t find any at your average hot-dog stand, Allium tricoccum is the real native food of Chicago. Also known as the ramp, wild leek, wild garlic and ail des bois, A. tricoccum is the vegetable that gave the city its name. While scholars are still arguing, most historians agree that Chicago is a [...] 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 [...] UPDATE: After all, Scharoff didn’t eat pizza the day after winning his bet — being too stuffed from tailgating at the Bears game, and he didn’t profit from his winnings: In an act of generosity, the two men decided to donate the $2,000 stakes to the Northern Illinois Food Bank. Congratulations, Pizza Boy! Could you [...] |
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