Local Big Bowls to offer gluten-free menu

Posted July 26, 2010 11:00 pm

By Sara Hooker

Area Big Bowl restaurants now feature a gluten-free menu that includes appetizers such as the vegetable summer roll and Thai chicken lettuce wraps. Entrees include chicken and broccoli, kung pao chicken, orange chicken, Mongolian beef and shrimp with snow peas. Additionally, all four signature pad thai dishes can be ordered GF, as well as two desserts and a wheat free-beer, New Grist.

Big Bowl is at 215 Parkway Drive, Lincolnshire, (847) 808-8880; and 1950 East Higgins St., Schaumburg, (847) 517-8881. Visit bigbowl.com.

Changing tidesSugarToad's new summer menu dives into seafood with 10 dishes now featured under the heading "From the Sea." Those dishes include pickering pasture oysters, opah belly, big eye tuna, neah bay salmon, smoked golden trout, soft shell crab and mahi-mahi. Other summer items beyond seafood include lamb sausage, chicken, pork cheek and a filet. SugarToad is in the Hotel Arista at 2139 CityGate Lane, Naperville. Visit hotelarista.com.Special lunchBetween 11 a.m. and 3 p.m. daily, enjoy Mina Restaurant's two lunch specials for $6.99. Try the kifta kebab, grilled ground beef and lamb mixture seasoned with onions, parsley and spices or the chicken kebab, grilled pieces of marinated tender chicken. Lunch specials are served with Mina rice, hummus, lebna, salad, falafel and pita bread. Mina Restaurant is at 1724 W. Golf Road, Mount Prospect. Call (847) 364-9400 or visit minarestaurant1.com.

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