Tonight a portion of your tab at a whole bunch of Chicago restaurants goes toward the HIV/AIDS support organization Dining Out For Life.
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Friday night at 7:30 Ghetto Gourmet hosts another secret dinner “in a very very special place near Southside.” The menu includes “Forbidden Empanadas: ground pork, granny smith apples, and dried cherries w/ truffled onion jelly,” “roasted chicken, rice, and cassava w/ chipotle peanut marinade, wrapped in banana leaf,” and more. Guests are advised to bring a bottle and a floor cushion. $45 tickets can be purchased here.
Saturday at 11:30 AM the Chicago Brauhaus throws a traditional Fruh Schoppen or “special brunch” featuring the 10-piece Bavarian brass band Die Blaskapelle Seefeld and Bavarian specialties. Call 773-484-4444.
Also on Wednesday Fox & Obel hosts a faceoff between farmstead and artisinal cheeses featuring Deborah Dickerson of London’s Neal’s Yard Dairy. It starts at 6 PM, and costs $25. Thursday at the grocery there’s a free organic blood orange and tangerine juice tasting from fruit grown on the slopes of Mt. Etna in Sicily. It starts at 4 PM; call 312-379-0139.
