Dining out: Holiday menus and specials, and a cooking class for kids at Moretti’s
It’s the holiday (menu) season
Eddie Merlot’s is getting ready for the season with a limited-time holiday menu featuring premium cuts of meat, fresh seafood and seasonal wine pairings available now through Jan. 4.
Featured entrées include a 34-ounce garlic chili tomahawk rib-eye for two; surf and turf with filet and a petite cold water lobster tail; pan-roasted salmon with crispy lobster risotto cake; braised short rib; and a pan-seared double-bone elk chop.
Eddie Merlot’s has locations in Burr Ridge, Lincolnshire and Warrenville.
A similar holiday menu is available at sister restaurant Sullivan’s Steakhouse in Naperville. It features the same rib-eye, surf and turf, braised short rib and elk chop, but also offers a shrimp and butternut squash risotto.
Flavors of the season, part one
Add White Castle to the spots where you can satisfy your pumpkin spice craving, as the fast-food restaurant welcomes back its pumpkin latte cheesecake dessert-on-a-stick for the season.
The treat blends pumpkin spice and coffee flavors in a cheesecake, which is coated on one side with a crushed graham cracker and brown sugar crust and served on a stick.
And if you happen to be at White Castle Friday through Monday, Nov. 13-16, they’re honoring National Fast Food Day (which is Nov. 16) by offering six cheese sliders for $4.
Flavors of the season, part two
Jeff’s Bagel Run in Downers Grove is offering some new festive drinks and seasonal spreads for a limited time.
From now until Dec. 31, the holiday menu features four seasonal beverages that include a gingerbread latte, a cookie butter cold foam latte, a frosty Shirley dirty soda and a Merry Cherry dirty soda.
Guests can give their favorite scratch-made bagel a festive upgrade with regular or vegan cookie butter cream cheeses or hot cocoa cream cheese.
Flavors of the season, part three
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams is celebrating the season with a collection of nostalgic flavors inspired by the magic of a festive holiday market.
The lineup features five returning favorites and one newcomer. White chocolate peppermint, pistachio macaron, boozy eggnog cranberry panettone with chocolate sprinkles and black tie tiramisu are back and joined by the new sticky toffee pudding flavor.
Shots for scores
If you want to fiesta while watching Chicago Bears football, Fat Rosie’s locations in Frankfort, Lincolnshire, Lincolnwood, Oak Brook, Rosemont and Schaumburg are rooting on the home team during games with $1 tequila shots every time the Bears score a touchdown. Bear down!
Young chefs
Aspiring young chefs can learn from Moretti’s executive chef Carlos Sanchez with the launch of Moretti’s Little Chef Academy, an interactive cooking experience designed to inspire kids and encourage creativity in the kitchen.
The special event at 4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 15, at the Hoffman Estates location will teach the art of making lasagna. Parents are invited to join in on the fun, which will feature hands-on cooking instruction where each child will prepare a lasagna to take home. Each participant (kids and adults) will receive a dine-in lasagna meal prepared by chef Sanchez at the end of class. Plus, each child will receive a Moretti’s chef hat.
It’s $24.99 per person. See morettisrestaurants.com/little-chefs for details.
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