Cherishing your mother needn’t break the budget. Just about every restaurant in town is offering brunch or dinner specials for Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 8, but these sweeten the pot with free items for Mom.
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Every day should be Earth Day, but here are a few upcoming Chicago events. Uncommon Ground, Edgewater, Great Lakes Brewing Co. Earth Day Dinner,6 p.m. Wednesday, April 20, $55. The event begins with passed appetizers, followed by Chef Chris Spear’s four-course dinner including grilled asparagus, truffled deviled egg with ham praline and green goddess dressing [...] Passover, the Jewish commemoration of the Biblical Exodus, begins at sunset Monday, April 18. While most Jews will gather for ritual meals called seders at family homes, if you don’t have a seder to go to, a variety of local restaurants stand ready to provide you with traditional food, if not always services. “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 [...] In this kind of weather, it’s tempting to stay home with the covers over your head. What can make it worth trudging out into the snow? Free stuff! So plan to bundle up on Wednesday, Feb. 16, and head to Oak Brook, where Grotto Italian Steakhouse will be pouring wine and cutting cheese in a [...] “Black Wednesday” in Chicago: It’s the night before Thanksgiving. If you aren’t cooking for Thursday’s dinner, why not go out? Comedian Mike Toomey presents his one-man show, “TV & ME,” a journey back into the land of 1960s and ’70s television at Carlucci in Downers Grove. Tickets are $25 and include a cocktail and an [...] Every year on the third Thursday in November, the Beaujolais region of France releases its new young wine. Made from grapes harvested just weeks before, Beaujolais Nouveau may not be poured, under French law, until 12:01 a.m. on the day, this year Nov. 18. The fresh wine should be drunk within weeks of its bottling. [...] Drink up, Chicago wine lovers, at these upcoming wine dinners at area restaurants. Reservations required. La Madia Hirsch Wine Dinner, River North, 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 4, $87. David Hirsch of Hirsch Vineyards, Sonoma, Calif., will be on hand for a a six-course dinner pairing his 2007 San Andreas pinot noir, 2007 and 2008 Bohan [...] The Great American Cheese Collection opens its Back of the Yards warehouse for an afternoon wine, beer and cheese party, 1 to 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 23. Local Marriott hotels will be rolling out the barrels this winemaking season, with tons of pinot noir, cabernet franc, sangiovese, zinfandel and Illinois Norton.grapes to be crushed into wine right in their lobbies. |
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