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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 [...]
What it is: The national dish of Brazil, feijoada is a flavorful stew of beans, beef and pork, a perfect dish to serve in honor of the Carnival season (Carnaval in Portuguese), which begins in Rio de Janeiro on Saturday, Feb. 13, and runs through Fat Tuesday, Feb. 16.
Where it comes from: There are a [...]
Classic, uniquely Chicago sandwiches you may never have tasted
When it comes to sandwiches, Chicago is not polite. We don’t settle for dainty bites coolly eaten with little finger cocked. Chicagoans go for big, sloppy meals on a bun — hot, two-fisted, lean-forward food that leaves you licking your fingers.
The Chicago-style hot dog, of course, is [...]
Save for your holiday shopping by taking advantage of these restaurant bargains:
SEAFOOD SAVINGS. Today through Thursday, Dec. 3, make dinner reservations at Devon Seafood Grill in River North and mention Dining Chicago, and get a four-course meal from the new “Low Tides” menu, featuring such dishes as seared scallops with crispy pancetta and crispy potato [...]
The October harvest of wine events continues.
Osteria Via Stato Autumn Harvest Wine Tasting, River North, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14, $20.
Master sommelier and host of “Check Please!” Alpana Singh leads a tasting of 20 autumn harvest wines that pair well with fall ingredients, such as brussels sprouts, apples, pears, squash and pomegranate, exemplified [...]
¡VIVA PILSEN! Mexican Independence Day is tomorrow, and more than 25 restaurants in Pilsen celebrate during the second annual ¡Buen Provecho! Participating eateries, such as Mundial Cocina Mestiza, Ristorante al Teatro, Honky Tonk BBQ and Nightwood, show off the community’s range of cuisine. You can try any of them between 5:30 and 9:30 p.m. [...]
What it is: A Peruvian cousin of ceviche and sashimi, tiradito is thin strips of chilled, raw fish doused with a zesty salsa made from citrus juice and aji amarillo (Peruvian yellow pepper, Capsicum baccatum). Unlike most ceviches, the fish isn’t marinated but instead simply dressed with the mixture, so you can think of the [...]
Step into the past this summer with W. C. Fields, Harold Lloyd, Douglas Fairbanks, Anna May Wong and other greats of the silent-film era. The Silent Film Society of Chicago’s annual “Silent Summer” film festival opens Friday, July 24, in Portage Park with “Running Wild,” a 1927 Fields comedy, and a Buster Keaton short, [...]
Help the struggle against homelessness on the Northwest Side by eating a homeless dinner. No, we don’t mean dumpster diving, but a meal that doesn’t have a fixed home. Instead, diners will move from place to place.
The three-part progressive dinner in the Six Corners neighborhood supports Hands to Help Ministries’ fight against local homelessness. The [...]
Have a fabulous Independence Day weekend, everyone! Here’s how four Chicago chefs are celebrating:
Chef David Richards serves a Family BBQ Sweets & Savories Style in Lincoln Park: deviled eggs with summer black truffle, tomato aspic with market vegetable and herb creme fraiche, butter-poached lobster potato salad, Sweets’ summer corn on the cob with basil butter, [...]
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