The taco truck Guerrero Azteca opened in January and regularly parks in the Piccadilly lot on W John Street in Champaign. Yesterday, I checked out the new food truck and ordered three tacos ($9): chicken, …
Posts by Alyssa Buckley:
Learn to make mocktails at Cloud Mountain Kombucha
Cloud Mountain Kombucha is teaming up with Katie’s Cocktails to bring a new mocktail class series to Urbana. Taught by beverage professional Katie Carrillo, the series’ first drink is a mocktail called red raspberry and …
Cao’s Hot Pot is coming to Campustown
Cao’s Hot Pot restaurant will soon open on Sixth Street in Campustown across the street from Poke Lab in the space where Mitsu & Tsaocaa was. The hot pot restaurant is not new to C-U. …
Triptych Brewing and a decade of craft beers
Dank Meme, A Wizard is Never Late, and Backpack Full of Bees are some eccentric names of beers made by Triptych Brewing. Started by passionate home brewers in 2013, the microbrewery has produced over 470 …
Ranch round-up of C-U
Ope! Tomorrow, March 10th is National Ranch Dressing Day, and around these parts, ranch is a religion. Get out of here with bottled ranch. We are Midwesterners, and we have ranch pride — at least …
Looks like changes are happening at NAYA
NAYA, the restaurant at the corner of Third and Green, has been closed since July of 2022, but there’s a new banner out front announcing a rebrand coming soon: NAYA Indian Cuisine and Bar. No …
Bab Plus Korean restaurant is a must-try
There’s no shortage of places to eat on the U of I campus with restaurants all along Green Street, inside Illini Union, and near the Krannert Center for Performing Arts. On one small block of Gregory …
Aroma Cafe in Downtown Champaign is closed
There’s one fewer place for a morning cup of coffee. Aroma Cafe in Downtown Champaign is permanently closed. In 2020 during the pandemic, the coffee shop closed their stand-alone location and moved into the restaurant …
Sushi Man is expanding to North Prospect
Sushi Man is bringing all-you-can-eat sushi to North Prospect in the space formerly occupied by Jumbo Crab. Sushi Man opened its original takeout-focused restaurant on Green Street in 2021 inside an apartment building, and this …
Eat appetizing sushi and pad Thai at Sushi Siam
Sushi Siam is a small Thai restaurant and sushi bar in the same plaza as Cheese & Crackers and Grovestone at the corner of Kirby and Mattis in Champaign. Opened in early 2020, Sushi Siam …