New to the food truck scene this summer, Main Street Creamery is scooping ice cream in flavors like Zanzibar chocolate, blueberry cheesecake, munchie madness, and more. The ice cream truck is a mobile version of …
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You should try yellow watermelon
Until this summer, I had only ever eaten plain old red watermelon. This month, I bought Meyer Produce’s yellow watermelon at the farmers’ market, and my life changed. It tasted just like regular red watermelon …
Five places in Champaign-Urbana for a solid Italian beef sandwich
Papa Del's, Manzella's Italian Patio, and more: here are five Italian beef sandwiches you can only find in Champaign-Urbana.
Les Gourmets Cuisine is open in Broadway Food Hall
Les Gourmets Cuisine is a new Congolese restaurant inside Urbana’s Broadway Food Hall, and it is now open serving chef specialties in addition to lunch plates with a choice of side. Les Gourmets’ lunch plate …
Catch Maria’s Kitchen food truck for great Filipino-American cuisine
Alyssa reviews kabobs, rangoons, lumpia, and pancit from the Filipino-American food truck Maria's Kitchen.
C-U’s Boneyard Union of Zymurgical Zealots are homebrew aficionados
“As far as tools go, homebrewers are all over the place. We usually start boiling in pots on the stove and fermenting in plastic buckets, all the way to having similar setups as breweries on a smaller scale,” says Kyle Murphy of the Boneyard Union of Zymurgical Zealots (BUZZ) Homebrew Club which was been an active Champaign-Urbana club since 1994.
Shawarma Joint’s Urbana location opens this month
Shawarma Joint, the Campustown restaurant known for excellent shawarma, will open a second location in Urbana on University Avenue this month. The halal restaurant confirmed on the phone that the Urbana location’s opening date is …
Try gyros and wings from new food truck Marrakesh Grill
There’s a new food truck in town called Marrakesh Grill serving gyros, grilled chicken pitas, veggie pitas, wings, fries, and gyro cheese fries. I found the truck parked beside Flour & Fire Pizza food truck …
Horsch Radish is now open, and here’s the menu
Horsch Radish, the new farm-to-table German restaurant in Gibson City, is now open. The restaurant had a soft opening last weekend and is taking reservations for this weekend. Here’s a photo of the menu (which …
Five things to eat or drink in C-U this month: August 2022
This month, Alyssa recommends a peach cocktail, Baldarotta's gelato, boom balls, and more.