Dining out: Throwback pricing at Clara’s, Giordano’s Italian beef pizza and more
Party like it’s 1987
Clara’s in Woodridge is celebrating its 39th anniversary Friday, March 13, with a special throwback menu and pricing honoring the restaurant’s opening year — 1987.
Guests can dine on a three-course $19.87 anniversary menu featuring one original appetizer, a choice of pasta, a side and dessert. The evening will include festive touches throughout the restaurant, including a photo booth, complimentary cake for guests and a free raffle.
Clara’s is also bringing back the original 1987 price of its signature lasagna for the three Tuesdays following the anniversary — March 17, 24 and 31 — offering the restaurant’s most popular dish for $6.75 for a one-pound portion for dine-in guests.
Pi Day deals
Saturday, March 14, is Pi Day, which means not only do you get to celebrate the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, but you can also get some tasty deals.
Blaze Pizza is continuing its annual buy one 11-inch pizza, get a second for $3.14 deal. They have suburban locations in Niles and Schaumburg.
7-Eleven and Speedway Rewards members can get a whole pizza for $3.14 Friday and Saturday, March 13-14.
Very Chicago-style
Giordano’s is again teaming up with Buona to combine two iconic Chicago flavors for their LTO Italian Beef Pizza.
Offered as a shipping exclusive last year as part of the brand’s nationwide online “Chi-Town Flavors” series, the pizza can be ordered on any style of crust and is topped with Italian beef, roasted sweet green peppers and spicy giardiniera.
The Italian Beef Pizza will be available for in-store dining, carryout and delivery at participating Giordano’s locations through April 6.
$10 Tuesday
Santo Cielo at 123 Water St. in Naperville is celebrating midweek dining with $10 Tuesdays, offering select drinks and dishes for 10 bucks.
On the cocktail side, try an old fashioned, sangria, Spanish-style gin and tonic, margarita or Moscow mule.
Food deals include tacos de camaron y jicama, ensalada Caesar, empanadas de birria, papas fritas and more. They also have half off the market price of their fresh oysters.
Spring is springing
Fat Rosie’s is bringing the flavors of spring with a limited-time menu featuring fresh seafood, citrus-forward cocktails and colorful desserts through April 27.
Limited-time starters include pescadillas (folded tortillas filled with Mexican-style fish of the day and topped with lettuce, sour cream, queso fresco, tomatoes and tres chiles salsa) and alitas de pollo (wings with a mango-habanero glaze served with a cotija-chipotle aioli).
The three seasonal entrées are enchiladas de marisco filled with shrimp and tilapia, tacos de cecina featuring cumin-marinated eye round steak, and salmon encacahuatado with a chipotle glaze.
Spring sips include a blood orange basil margarita, smoke lychee mezcalita and the Acapulco spring break, with reposado tequila and mango, pink guava and strawberry puree.
Finish the night off with Niño Envuelto de Guayaba, a light vanilla sponge cake rolled with guava mousse, basted in chocolate ganache, and served with rompope cream anglaise and hibiscus-infused strawberries.
Coming soon
Wayback Burgers, which has about 200 locations worldwide, will open a new restaurant in Niles this summer, the chain’s second in Illinois.
The fast-casual restaurant will be serving its made-to-order burgers, sandwiches and hand-dipped milkshakes at 7057 W. Dempster St.
Among the most popular menu items are the “Cheeeesy,” which comes with four slices of melted American cheese and two beef patties sandwiched between an inverted, grilled and buttered bun. Beyond burgers, Wayback also offers cheesesteaks, crispy and grilled chicken sandwiches, veggie and Impossible burgers, salads and sides including fries, tater tots, onion rings and fried pickles.
They also have a location at 2425 75th St., Darien.
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