This Saturday, the brand new ice cream and cereal bar Heavy Spoon Co. will open in Downtown Champaign. The restaurant serves customizable bowls of ice cream and cereal with a variety of toppings. As reported …
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Las Palmas off North Prospect is pretty good
Alyssa reviews the 88-ounce margarita tower, tacos, and more at Las Palmas Mexican Grill in North Champaign.
U of I’s International Cooking Show cooks up global cuisine
The International Cooking Show is hosted on Zoom by the U of I's International and Area Studies Library.
A new Chinese restaurant called DD Fish is open in Champaign
At the corner of Springfield Avenue and First Street, DD Fish is now open in the building where Mr. Crab closed earlier this year. The new restaurant serves Chinese cuisine for dinner six nights a week. …
The Courier Cafe will have new ownership soon
The Courier Cafe, a staple of Urbana for 43 years, will soon have new ownership. The new owners are regulars at the restaurant and have no plans to make changes to the menu or staff. …
Red Herring Restaurant now offers breakfast and LGBTQ+ Soup Nights
After announcing the restaurant’s closure last December, Red Herring reopened in September for weekday lunch, and now the Urbana restaurant is expanding their offerings to include a light breakfast and to host LGBTQ+ Soup Nights. The …
Five things to eat or drink in C-U this month: November 2022
This November, Alyssa shares a harvest cocktail and four foods that taste like Thanksgiving.
The Space is a new restaurant and music venue coming to Downtown Champaign
Downtown Champaign is about to get weird with the opening of Weird Meat Boyz’s new restaurant and music venue The Space. The Space restaurant will be open for lunch and dinner five days a week with …
El Paraiso will open in Downtown Urbana this Friday
After leaving Broadway Food Hall this summer, El Paraiso will open this Friday at 11 a.m. in Downtown Urbana in the space formerly occupied by Dancing Dog. The Latin American food paradise will offer full …
Meet Molly Oberg, farmer and co-owner of Meyer Produce
“I find a lot of joy in connecting with customers at the market. Just…seeing families connect to where their food comes from. Having a relationship with someone that feeds you, it’s a really cool thing. I love that,” says Molly Oberg, farmer and co-owner of Meyer Produce.