You no longer need to be embarrassed by your puny hot dog, you can have the biggest wiener at the cookout!
Gorilla Tango Novelty Meats, a strange new sideline for the folks behind Chicago’s Gorilla Tango Theatre, introduces the Big Hot Dog, a 16-inch-long, 4-inch-diameter, 7-pound wienie.
No ordinary Chicago-style dog, this frankenfurter is made of [...]
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 with the [...]
Dining Chicago’s David Lissner helps Guido Nardini take it all off.
Last March, a boiler explosion in River North toppled a 50-foot chimney onto Club Lago and destroyed its second floor and the kitchen beneath. Rebuilding the historic bar and Italian restaurant took six months. During that time, Guido Nardini, who owns Club Lago with his [...]
Jaunted recently listed five common mistakes tourists make in Chicago. One they missed was not listening to locals’ advice on the city’s best restaurants.
Chicago actor, playwright and sometime musician Paul Barile, whose day job is piloting hundreds of tourists around town in a diesel trolley or double-decker bus, says he gets asked about restaurants a [...]
RedEye jumped on food groupies this week, interviewing celebrity chefs like Rick Bayless of Frontera Grill and Rick Tramonto of Tru, who say their fans are so rabid they invent fake emergencies or show up at their kids’ soccer games in order to get the chefs’ autographs. Supplementing the story, a sidebar cruelly skewered [...]
UPDATE: Wolfy’s Northbrook opening has been pushed back to 11 a.m. Thursday, June 4.
That iconic hot dog skewered by a giant fork has been attracting North Siders to Wolfy’s for decades. To the delight of north suburbanites, the Chicago stalwart plans to open its long-awaited second location in Northbrook on Monday.
The Northbrook location will offer [...]
