Eating out: Waterleaf now open at COD

Posted October 18, 2011 11:00 pm

By Sara Hooker

Chef Jean-Louis Clerc displays some of his creations at Waterleaf Restaurant, which is now open in Glen Ellyn. Courtesy of Waterleaf Restaurant

Waterleaf open

College of DuPage's 60,000-square-foot Culinary and Hospitality Center featuring Waterleaf Restaurant and boutique hotel Inn at Water's Edge are now open. Waterleaf offers a contemporary approach to fine dining with locally grown and seasonal ingredients with lunch, dinner and brunch menus. Featured dinner entrees include braised snapper fillet in coconut and lemon grass for $28 and roasted rack of lamb with a tomato-stuffed carrot purée, asparagus and Yukon Gold potato galette and lamb reduction for $34.

Waterleaf Restaurant is in the Culinary and Hospitality Center at College of DuPage, 425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn. (630) 942-6881.

Halloween cookies Wildfire-style

Parents and kiddos will learn to make Halloween cookies the Wildfire way at a hands-on class from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 22. The spooktacular lesson costs $10 per child, plus tax and gratuity.

Wildfire is located at 235 Parkway Drive, Lincolnshire. (847) 279-7900 or wildfirerestaurant.com.

Sullivan's goes pink

There's a pink menu at Sullivan's Steakhouse throughout October that benefits breast cancer research. The three-course meal costs $39.95. Entree choices include filet mignon, Cajun-dusted salmon fillet with truffle-red pepper chili butter, roasted chicken breast with wild mushroom-Madeira ragout and crab-stuffed shrimp with chive beurre blanc.

Sullivan's Steakhouse is at 244 S. Main St., Naperville, (630) 305-0230, or 250 Marriott Drive, Lincolnshire, (847) 883-0311. See sullivansteakhouse.com.

Waterleaf Restaurant recently opened in the Culinary and Hospitality Center at College of DuPage. Courtesy of Waterleaf Restaurant

Choose a filet as part of Sullivans three-course pink menu that benefits breast cancer research. Courtesy of Sullivans Steakhouse

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