Dining out: BOGO Rainbow Cone for Sweetest Day, fall cocktails, Wicked dinner and more
Sweet!
Saturday, Oct. 18, is Sweetest Day, and The Original Rainbow Cone is celebrating with a buy one, get one free offer on sliced cones, including the Original stacked with layers of chocolate, strawberry, Palmer House, pistachio and orange sherbet.
The 100-year-old ice cream shop has suburban locations in Bolingbrook, Darien, Glendale Heights, Gurnee, Kildeer, Lombard and Mount Prospect.
Fall cocktails
We get a lot of seasonal food menu updates in our inbox, but not many just for cocktails. Hearth Lounge at Hyatt Lodge Oak Brook is keeping things fresh this fall with an all-new signature cocktail menu featuring about a dozen fall-inspired cocktails and mocktails.
Highlights include the Pecan Pie Martini made with Sazerac Rye, RumChata, coconut, nutmeg and candied pecans; the Fig & Folly with Jack Daniel’s Bonded Whiskey, fig, lemon, green walnut liqueur and aromatic bitters; and the Lounge Light with Appleton Estate Jamaica rum, allspice, Chinola passion fruit liqueur, aperitif and lime.
For those wanting to go the N/A route, there’s a spirit-free appletini as well as drinks like the Berry Passionate, with Lyre’s White Cane N.A. Spirit, blackberry, passionfruit and lime.
Straight from Oz
“Wicked: For Good” hits theaters Nov. 21 and Bonefish Grill has a themed dinner on Thursday, Oct. 30, to hold you over until then.
The four-course cocktail pairing dinner features cleverly named pink and green drinks, which of course they describe as “wicked good,” paired with scallops and squash puree to start, followed by a fall scallop and shrimp salad, tequila cream sea bass with lobster ravioli and green apple brownie for dessert.
Their themed dinners usually sell out quickly, so make reservations on their website. Dinner starts at 6:30 p.m. and is $70 per person. They have suburban locations in Algonquin and Schaumburg.
Visiting chef dinner
An Elgin Community College culinary department alumnus who has cooked for former President Barack Obama and celebrities including Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock will return to campus for a visiting chef dinner Thursday, Oct. 30.
Chef Douglas Yeomans will meet with culinary students during the day before cooking up a dinner that starts with tropical seafood ceviche, followed by bronze-cut linguini in prosciutto-infused smoky Romano cream. Black pepper-espresso rubbed braised short rib will be served as the entree with a spiced Pavlova with brandied white chocolate crème anglaise for dessert.
The 6 p.m. dinner will be held in the Building H Arts Center on ECC’s campus, 1700 Spartan Drive. Tickets are $95 and can be purchased online or by calling the ECC box office at (847) 622-0300.
Thanking first responders
Perry’s Steakhouse & Grille is honoring first responders with a specially crafted three-course menu before 6 p.m. daily at its three suburban locations in Oak Brook, Schaumburg and Vernon Hills.
The $39 menu, available to active and retired fire and rescue, law enforcement, EMTs and paramedics, includes multiple choices per course, with entrees that include the lunch portion of Perry’s Famous Pork Chop, steakhouse pasta, 6-ounce chargrilled salmon, chicken Oscar, gulf fried shrimp, vegan skillet chopped steak and ahi tuna filet mignon.
The menu is available on request, and reservations and proper ID are required.
Busy night for Orin Swift wines
If you like Orin Swift wines, you’re in luck. Two suburban restaurants are hosting Orin Swift wine dinners Tuesday, Oct. 21.
Stoney River in Deer Park will host a four-course menu paired with the award-winning wines. The evening starts with a cocktail crafted with Horse Soldier straight bourbon whiskey, followed by beef tenderloin carpaccio paired with Blank Stare sauvignon blanc and then Waldorf salad and Slander pinot noir. The entree of steak Diane is paired with Mercury Head cabernet sauvignon, and burnt Basque cheesecake will be served with Advice from John merlot.
Dinner is at 6:30 p.m., and it’s $150 per person. Reservations can be made at Resy.
If you’re further south, on the same night you can visit J. Alexander’s in Oak Brook for the Orin Swift dinner.
It’s the same cocktail, same wine and same price (both restaurants are part of SPB Hospitality), but different menu, which starts with crab-stuffed shrimp, followed by a Parmesan crisp Caesar salad, Steak Diane and pot de creme for dessert.
Reservations are also available at Resy.
• Email dining events to rwest@dailyherald.com.