Featuring celebrity performers, live music, African food, and a celebration of independence, Best of Africa Food Store is hosting Festival Independence this weekend Friday, July 1st through Sunday, July 3rd. The event will be outside …
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A-Ri-Rang’s owners retiring after 23 years; new owners will reopen in July
After 23 years, A-Ri-Rang’s owners are retiring. The Campustown Korean restaurant is closed as of today, June 27th, but the restaurant will reopen under new ownership sometime in July. Read the paper announcement below. Photo …
Find Uniting Pride, Lodgic, and kids cooking kits at this Tuesday’s market
The market this Tuesday, June 28th will be a fun one. The Land Connection’s Champaign Farmers’ Market will have Uniting Pride at the Market, a rainbow scavenger hunt, free kids cooking kits, Lodgic Kids Camp, …
I ordered all ten sauces at Black Dog Smoke and Ale House
Everyone who has been to Black Dog has a favorite sauce. I’ve had the same two favorite sauces since my first bite at the Urbana location in 2014: the Lexington and Georgia peach. I’ve stuck …
Hendrick House Farm’s ten acres of sustainable agriculture
Walk the farm with Hendrick House Farm Director Ann Swanson as she shares about the 15,000 pounds of produce the farm grows annually for C-U, her fine dining experiences, and her goal to reform the food at institutional kitchens.
The Red Herring Vegetarian Restaurant will be serving lunch again soon
The Red Herring Vegetarian Restaurant posted on Facebook that it will reopen this August, and that is great news. The restaurant closed in December with no reopening date, but in that time, the radically inclusive …
Neil St. Blues buffet brunch is a smorgasbord of Southern cuisine
Alyssa tried a little bit of everything at Neil St. Blues' Juneteenth Sunday buffet brunch.
G and T at Ladro Enoteca is the drink of summer
On the menu as G and T, Ladro Enoteca’s gin and tonic ($12) is a cold, smooth sip on a hot summer day. Gin and tonic is the favorite cocktail of owner Thad Morrow, and …
Here are some C-U Black-owned restaurants to support this Juneteenth
There are many ways to celebrate Juneteenth in Champaign-Urbana, and supporting Black-owned restaurants and bakeries with our orders (and patience for wait times) is one awesome way. When we buy food from Black-owned businesses, we support …
How C-U’s Espresso Royale coffee shops were saved by Café Kopi
“I didn't want the Espressos to just die off after working for them for so long,” says Doug McCarver, who rescued all of C-U's closing Espresso Royales including the Krannert View location where he worked as a barista in the 1980s.