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 [...]

Hair of the dog: Chicago New Year’s Day brunch bunch

Feed your hangover and get a little of the hair of the dog that bit you at New Year’s Day brunch.

33 Club, Old Town, noon to 4 p.m.
A la carte brunch items include hand-sliced smoked salmon, whole wheat banana pancakes, challah french toast, eggs benedict and omelets.

Dunlays on the Square, Logan [...]

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 [...]

2009 Beaujolais Nouveau arrives in Chicago Thursday

Le Beaujolais Nouveau est arrivé!
Well, nearly. On the third Thursday of each November, the new wine of Beaujolais is uncorked for the world. By French law, Beaujolais Nouveau may be released no earlier than 12:01 a.m. on that date.
More than 65 million bottles, nearly half of the region’s total annual wine production, are [...]

The David Leonardis Report: The DLR strikes again

David Leonardis

I just had a fantastic steak, au gratin potatoes, warm pumpernickel raisin bread and a wailingly decadent sundae at Wildfire in Oak Brook.
After which I went to see “Couples Retreat.” It was kinda funny watching this movie on a third date. I asked the girl I was with if she had a message she [...]

DoveBar’s sweet Chicago success story

 
“Imagine your life in chocolate,” says Mars Inc., promoting Dove Chocolate Discoveries, its direct-sales scheme for peddling its confections like Tupperware or Avon products.
The company is recruiting chocolate ladies at two “Girls’ Nights Out” this week where women can indulge in free chocolate martinis and smoothies and listen to the pitch. The events take [...]