Restaurant Week

There are just a few days left of Restaurant Week, and so many choices, but we think you need to make Maize at the Station a priority. Editor-in-Chief Jessica Hammie and I dipped in for …

For my first ever Restaurant Week article, I decided on Sticky Rice in Downtown Champaign. Partially because I’ve never been there before and also because I’ve been a vegetarian for a little while now, and …

“You want a music editor to write about food?” I asked. This might be more pressure than I bargained for since joining Smile Politely as Music Editor last February. Alyssa assured me it wasn’t a …

Listen, I don’t need any sort of special reason to drop into Watson’s Shack & Rail for dinner. It’s a McClure family staple. It’s difficult to conjure a miss in any of the too-many-to-count times …

A Taste of Both Worlds is a Filipino-Cambodian restaurant tucked inside Broadway Food Hall in Urbana, and they have seven Restaurant Week specials this year. One of they call a Cambodian banh mi burger, and …

As Restaurant Week continues, so shall our coverage of delicious foods we’ve eaten. On Saturday, I made it out to The Crossing in Champaign for the specials at 83 Vietnamese. For Restaurant Week, the mom-and-son …

Po’ Boys has long been known for barbecue, but perhaps scandalously, my favorite thing on the Urbana restaurant’s menu is the pie. I’m talking both kinds of pie here, dessert pie and pizza pie. So …

The time has come for Restaurant Week 2024. Starting tomorrow, 48 eateries across Champaign, Urbana, Savoy, Mahomet, Paxton, St. Joe, and Rantoul will participate in the nine-day celebration of restaurants. The Experience Champaign-Urbana event will …

There are 45 restaurants participating in this year’s Experience Champaign-Urbana’s Restaurant Week, and many menus are now available online. From favorites like Nando’s arancini and Smith Burger Co’s smashburger on a Ye Olde doughnut to …