LAKE FOREST Looking for thick pan pizza with fresh homemade sauces and meats flown in from Chicago?Check out Brizio's Chicago-Style Pizza. The restaurant on Monday will hold a grand opening ribbon-cutting at 1 p.m. They will give away free pizza and drinks until 2 p.m. It is at 21771 Lake...
You can't put a price on love, but romantic restaurants can be pretty steep, especially on Valentine's Day. If you'd like to take that special someone out to a romantic or sexy place without breaking the bank, look no further.
The Jibarito, a Puerto Rican-inspired, Chicago-born plantain sandwich, which was conceived by Juan “Peter” Figueroa, the co-owner of Borinquen Restaurant at 1720 N. California Ave.
MojoPages has announced the top Romantic Restaurants in cities around the United States. Each week, this Yellow Pages website concludes a contest for a specific business category, with a total of 52 categories in all.San Diego, CA (PRWEB) February 07, 2012 MojoPages has announced the top Romantic Restaurants in cities around the United States. Each week, this Yellow Pages website concludes a ...
No one would ever mistake downtown Skokie for Walt Disney’s Epcot Center in sunny Florida — especially in the dead of winter — but they share at least one recipe for success. Walk a short ways in the heart of either one and a new and different international cuisine awaits. The Epcot Center serves its delicacies in the grandest fashion, of course — as part of a World Showcase area with a ...
Acker Merrall & Condit, America’s and the world’s leading wine auctioneer, announced today the results of its second-ever Chicago auction, held Saturday, January 28th, at the E
The eminent sociologist on the trouble with multiculturalism – and the joys of cooking and music Richard Sennett is professor of sociology at the LSE. A child of Russian emigres, he grew up in the notorious Cabrini Green housing project in Chicago and studied as a cellist. After injuring his hand, he turned to academia. Author of many books, including The Craftsman and The Culture of the New ...
Will a makeover draw customers back to Olive Garden?
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- In anticipation of Valentine's Day, OpenTable, Inc. (NASDAQ: OPEN - News), a leading provider of free, real-time online restaurant reservations for diners and reservation ...
As baseball-starved fans begin flocking to Arizona for Major League Baseball's spring training, the Chicago Cubs' facility in Mesa is always a popular destination. If you're looking for the best dining spots for your trip, you've come to the right place.
The phrase “salad days” has often been used to describe one’s carefree youth or the moment at which a person lived at the zenith of his powers. The expression was coined by Shakespeare in the play “Antony and Cleopatra,” wherein Cleopatra reminiscing about dalliances with Julius Caesar speaks of her “… salad days, When I was green in judgment…” As one who rebuffs salad as if it were swine flu, I ...
From Crain's Chicago Business: Chicago is home to half of the nation's 10 top-billing restaurants, according to an analysis of spending data by Bundle.com.
Where's the music? We succumbed to the sales pitch for the "romantic," albeit pricey gondola ride early one evening on Venice's famed canals, but our gondolier, decked out in the traditional striped shirt, didn't sing, much less talk to us. I don't think he spoke English and our Italian didn't go beyond buon giorno.
LAKE FOREST - There were hugs, screams and tears Wednesday from neighbors and friends as Rob Pequeno lifted his critically injured son from a car into a wheelchair in the driveway."You're home, son," said Rob Pequeno, 47, a deputy with the Orange County Sheriff Department....
Few hotel companies get the opportunity to launch a new brand in what is already a much admired, even iconic, building - but that's what happened when Carlson Hotels opened its first North American Radisson Blu in Chicago's Aqua Tower.
I’d love to recommend a delicious dinner that I recently ate: organic winter greens with Shinko pear; Laura Chenel goat cheese fritter; wild mushroom and black truffle tagliatelle with caramelized Brussels sprout; roasted sugar plum squash ravioli, and homemade whole wheat focaccia with a hint of sea salt. But by the time you read this, the elegant rustic menu I sampled—as well as the chef who ...
Business partners Daniel Holzman and Michael Chernow literally are having a ball with their out-of-the-box restaurant concept. In just two years, The Meatball Shop has turned into a phenomenon and shows signs of being the next big food thing out of New York City.
Thomas Keller is a very lucky man. Not only is he the only chef and restauranteur in the U.S. to be awarded three Michelin stars for two restaurants simultaneously, his two restaurants, French Laundry in the Napa Valley, and Per Se in New York City's Columbus Circle, are consistently ranked among the world's best restaurants by Restaurant magazine.
Team approachFire Dept. takes on weight loss challengeNaperville Fire Department Chief Mark Puknaitis believes in the TEAM approach: together everyone achieves more. Apparently, this even applies to weight loss.On Monday, 10 Fire Department administration employees responded to the chief’s challenge when they joined him on a truck scale at Naperville’s Electric Service Center. The official weigh ...
The nickname "Magnificent Mile" -- hyperbole to some, an understatement to others -- refers to the roughly mile-long stretch of North Michigan Avenue between Oak Street and the Chicago River.
