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Craft Beer Week: What’s on Tap Around the ‘Hood
In just its third year, Chicago Craft Beer Week has become such a popular event, seven days can’t contain the excitement. The “week” now runs for a whopping 11 days, May 17-27, and that still isn’t enough time to hit up the more than 200 participating venues and special events. Lincoln Square has been lumped [...]
Turkey Day Countdown: Where to Get Your Food and Drinks
There are about as many ways to celebrate Thanksgiving as there are stuffing recipes. (Or would that be dressing recipes? See what I mean.) The single requirement: You simply positively must make a pig of yourself. Allow us to help. Whether you’re planning to dine out, prepare the feast yourself or have it catered, we’ve [...]
Nicole Geslani, Gene’s Rooftop Server
A Chicago newbie, Nicole Geslani arrived in Chicago from Florida roughly a year ago and currently can be found working on the roof of Gene’s Sausage Shop, 4750 N. Lincoln Ave., where patrons are enjoying the final relaxing rays of summer. Although her background is in sociology, Nicole has immersed herself in the local music [...]
City Provisions Celebrates One Year With Their Local Suppliers
Ravenswood’s sustainable-food focused deli and caterer, City Provisions, 1818 W. Wilson Ave. is celebrating their one-year anniversary next week and to celebrate their bringing in their farmers and vendors to meet you, the customer. For five days food providers will be on hand to talk about their products, process and just about anything you can [...]
Kids Cook With the Shedd at City Provisions
It’s the question you’ve been dreading. In the middle of dinner, your seven-year-old blurts out, “Mommy, where do fish sticks come from?” If the only answer that springs to mind is “Um, the freezer,” keep reading. On Saturday, August 13, 10-11 a.m., Shedd Aquarium and City Provisions, 1818 W. Wilson, are teaming up for a [...]
Beat The Heat At Salted Caramel’s Pop-Up Popsicle Shop
This Saturday, Salted Caramel is putting the “pop” in “pop-up.” For one day only, July 2, 12-4 p.m., the confectioners will operate a Pop-Up Popsicle Shoppe out of the Espresso Thy Art space at 4019 N. Damen Ave. Salted Caramel’s co-owners, Ginna Haravon and Bridget Doherty, typically work out of a commercial kitchen in Jefferson [...]
Neighborhood Restaurant News Round Up
A quick round-up of recent local restaurant news: City Provisions, 1818 W. Wilson Ave., is now serving brunch and Night Time Nosh. Grab some cinnamon French toast or bacon steaks with duck fat fries at Sunday brunch, 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Night Time Nosh, served Tuesday through Saturday, 4-9 p.m., features charcuterie and a variety [...]
Dinner and a Movie, Locavore Style
Where does food come from? If your response to that question was “duh, the grocery store,” have we got a movie for you. On June 22, 6 p.m., the Lincoln Square Chamber of Commerce will host a screening of “Ingredients” at Dank Haus, 4740 N. Western Ave. The documentary film explores the local food movement and the [...]
What’s on Tap for Chicago Craft Beer Week
A former co-worker of mine who had previously lived in New York used to complain that Chicagoans spend most of their time hanging out in bars, drinking beer. And what, pray tell, is wrong with that? As if we needed added incentive, along comes Chicago Craft Beer Week, May 19-27, to further encourage our tendency [...]
City Provisions Has the Answer to ‘Where’s the Beef?’
What’s for dinner? If your fridge is stocked like mine, the answer would be pickle relish, butter and a tub full of moldy pumpkin that looks like a science experiment gone horribly wrong. A better solution would be to sign up for City Provisions’ Meat Share program. The program starts March 18—the number of participants [...]
Center Square In The News
The Chicago Tribune reports on a 34-year-old businessman, who was moved by a Tribune story about homeless twin brothers. He is paying for a week’s hotel-stay for one brother while the other remains hospitalized. The Kansas City Star wrote about last week’s Indiana earthquake, and interviews a Lincoln Square resident who felt it. Chicago Now Muckrakers blogger [...]
The Ravenswood Chamber: Plagued By Financial Mismanagement
Editor’s Note: Center Square Journal continues its coverage of the dissolution of the Ravenswood Chamber of Commerce This article reviews the Chamber’s tangle of financial problems. Read our other article for a review of changes and confusion in the Chamber and its Board of Directors. The Ravenswood Chamber of Commerce is likely to dissolve by [...]
Pipeworks Brewing Company Kickstarts Business with Upcoming Tastings
If you’ve seen “The Social Network,” you know things didn’t work out so well for Facebook’s initial investor. But Beejay Oslon and Gerrit Lewis, founders of Pipeworks Brewing Company, promise not to Zuckerberg you if you take a chance on their start-up craft brewery. Donate to their Kickstarter campaign, which aims to raise $30,000 by January [...]
Center Square in the News
Koval distillery is debuting a new whiskey, hitting stores Saturday, Nov. 6. National food blog Serious Eats reviewed Fountainhead‘s food and beer this week. The DePaulia wrote about “Essay Fiesta,” a reading event at The Book Cellar. The next event is Monday, Nov. 15. ABC7 visited Lill Street Art Center to see them make blown [...]
Five Questions with Andrew Huff
Editor’s Note: We want to get to know our neighbors, so we picked five questions to ask each of them. Feel free to ask them your own questions in the comments. Or submit your own responses on our submissions page. The proprietor of Chicago’s indy-Internet phenomenon, Gapers Block, Andrew Huff has been moving from one [...]
