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 [...]
Here’s mine:
Yes, that’s a pizza with macaroni on it.
I’m not a snob about chain restaurants. I’ve been known to defend McDonald’s — for more than just its clean restrooms. I have eaten happily at mid-priced national chains, like the Cheesecake Factory and Maggiano’s.
But I wouldn’t have been tempted by CiCi’s Pizza Buffet [...]
My husband brought back sushi for our late supper the other night, from the Tokyo Lunch Boxes stand at Super H-Mart, the huge Korean supermarket in the ethnic-shopping mecca of Niles. It was all elaborate rolls, which is what’s left when you’re going for the end-of-the-day, two-for-one, markdown, pre-made specials.
Spicy mayo-based sauce figured in [...]
Church festivals offer some of the best eating. Two good ones are coming up this weekend.
St. Haralambos Greek Orthodox Church, 7373 N. Caldwell, Niles, hosts its annual Big Greek Food Festival this weekend. This is absolutely one of the best food festivals of the Chicagoland summer, with homemade Greek specialties such as loukaniko (Greek sausage), [...]
This has certainly been a pretty piggy summer so far. Contrary to pork producers’ fears, the swine flu pandemic seems only to have whetted our appetite for pigging out. Pig roasts and other porcine feasts are popping up all over the place.
I can remember when local restaurateurs used to complain they had trouble selling [...]
