This March, Alyssa shares a Filipino dessert, an Indian lunch, a Korean-fusion burger, and more.
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Have you been to Da Shark?
Da Shark is a restaurant that opened last October in Champaign. On the menu, find fried chicken by the piece, saucy bone-in and boneless wings, catfish, perch, tilapia, jerk salmon, and Chicago style sandwiches. There …
Eat your broccoli
From lemon-parm broccoli salad to pad see you, here are five C-U broccoli dishes that are so good.
I need to tell you about this cocktail from Punch! Bar
This cocktail comes with a side of butter to add to the drink tableside — and it was amazing. Photo by Alyssa Buckley. Before I added the butter, I sipped the warm drink, and it …
Margaritas to sip on National Margarita Day
Happy National Margarita Day! I love margaritas, and C-U has lots of tasty margs. Maize has amazing margaritas, and you can customize them to be spicy or not. I like to get the cucumber lime …
Have you heard about La Cocina Delicia?
There’s a dessert shop called La Cocina Delicia inside Strawberry Fields in Urbana making artisitic gelatin sweets with hand-crafted flowers. The desserts are described online as “flavorful, sweet, fruity, creamy, and gluten free.” Take a …
Rice Bowl is a new restaurant serving Chinese takeout in Campustown
Serving Chinese takeout and bento boxes, Rice Bowl is now open in the space that used to be Howdy Burger. The new restaurant is located in Campustown between Shawarma Joint and Mid Summer Lounge. Photo …
Desserts you need to eat
Made-to-order cannolis, a panda-shaped pastry, and more, here are five desserts for when you want to treat yourself to something sweet.
Kung Fu Taste is now open in Campustown
UPDATE February 11th at 8:56 a.m.: It appears their menu is no longer listed online, registering a 404 error, which took place after publishing the original SPlog. Here’s a link to their Instagram in the …
Weird Meat Boyz + Collective Pour unite for the Weird Meat Boyz Kitchen
The new restaurant in the kitchen of Collective Pour will have a dynamic, constantly-rotating menu. Weird Meat Boyz Doug Hodge and Ian Nutting say, “We kinda want to shake it up…Nothing is sacred to us. If we don't want to do fries, we may cancel fries.”