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 [...]
You don’t have to eat Chinese food on Christmas.
Is there anyone left cooking Thanksgiving dinner at home? Most restaurants used to close on Thanksgiving, but no more.
Last week I ran a list of 25 Chicagoland restaurants serving Thanksgiving dinner and apparently only scratched the surface. I’ve heard from dozens more Chicago and suburban restaurants that will be open on Thanksgiving.
So here are [...]
Green City Market challenges you to eat local. During the market’s challenge period, Wednesday, Sept. 9, through Sept. 23, participants sign a pledge to make a conscious effort to choose foods grown in Illinois, the adjoining states and Michigan. If you’re ever going to go the locavore route, now’s the time — the height of [...]
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 [...]
Celebrating its new Morton’s The Cookbook, Morton’s is tossing a series of book-signing shindigs to benefit Feeding America.
Klaus Fritsch, Morton’s co-founder and co-author of Morton’s Steak Bible and Morton’s The Cookbook, hosts the local receptions:
Naperville, 5:30 p.m. Monday, June 8.
Schaumburg, 6 p.m. Tuesday, June 9.
Northbrook, 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 10.
Chicago (Wacker [...]