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 [...]
UPDATE: After all, Scharoff didn’t eat pizza the day after winning his bet — being too stuffed from tailgating at the Bears game, and he didn’t profit from his winnings: In an act of generosity, the two men decided to donate the $2,000 stakes to the Northern Illinois Food Bank.
Congratulations, Pizza Boy!
Could you eat nothing [...]
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 [...]
Oktoberfest season continues, with a lot of Chicago places that aren’t remotely German the rest of the year going all oompah.
Prost! on Paulina, West Lakeview, 6 p.m. TONIGHT.
The restaurants and bars around the Brown Line’s Paulina L stop host an Oktoberfest pub crawl, beginng at The night begins at Frasca Pizzeria and Wine Bar [...]
Jaunted recently listed five common mistakes tourists make in Chicago. One they missed was not listening to locals’ advice on the city’s best restaurants.
Chicago actor, playwright and sometime musician Paul Barile, whose day job is piloting hundreds of tourists around town in a diesel trolley or double-decker bus, says he gets asked about restaurants a [...]
RedEye jumped on food groupies this week, interviewing celebrity chefs like Rick Bayless of Frontera Grill and Rick Tramonto of Tru, who say their fans are so rabid they invent fake emergencies or show up at their kids’ soccer games in order to get the chefs’ autographs. Supplementing the story, a sidebar cruelly skewered [...]
Here’s a way to foil the Monday blues: Grab a pizza at Evanston’s Union Pizzeria on Monday, July 13, and head to the adjoining Evanston SPACE, 1245 N. Chicago Ave., for a cool flashback to “Dark Cafe Days,” a Joni Mitchell tribute by the harmonic trio Foiled Again (Allison Bazarko, Rob Lindley and Anne Sheridan [...]
Tomorrow night, Black Bear Combo, Balkan gypsy music filtered through noise/freejazz/rock; folk-rock singer Ami Saraiya; Americana rockers Furious Frank & the Hobocamp Mud Show and DJ Vanessa Beck come together at Martyrs’ in North Center for a raucous evening of music in a good cause.
The 8:30 p.m. Wednesday show benefits the Chicago Single-Payer Action Network, [...]