Earn triple points at Lettuce Entertain You today

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 [...]

50 Chicagoland restaurants and bars open on Christmas Day

You don’t have to eat Chinese food on Christmas.

60 more Chicagoland restaurants serving Thanksgiving dinner

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 [...]

Can you eat local for two weeks?

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 [...]

Hot dog! Wolfy’s opens second location

 
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 [...]

Help the hungry — eat steak at Morton’s

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 [...]