CHICAGO — On your menu this weekend: deli sandwiches, sugar and pig's head.
• The people behind the renowned Three Aces opened Charlatan, a "locally sourced, modern Italian-inspired" spot in West Town this week.
The menu offers a set of dishes that are inventive mixes of meats, sauces, cheeses and vegetables.
Among the menu items are the black kale spaghettini (kale and walnut pesto, pumpkin chips and hard blue cheese), rabbit casoncelli (golden raisins, sage brown butter and chanterelles).
And there there's the roasted pig's head for two. That'll cost $55.
• Saturday's your last chance get a sandwich from The Brown Sack, a beloved Logan Square neighborhood lunch spot, before it closes after eight years of business.
“We were one of the first places on this side of the street,” co-owner Adam Lebin said this week about the shop at Belden and Central Park avenues. “This building was an eyesore 4½ years ago. We were here long before the neighborhood began to change.”
The cafe has served up classics like reuben, tuna salad and ham sandwiches, as well as milkshakes and smoothies.
The Brown Sack, 3581 W. Belden Ave.
• Chef Emmanuel "Manny" Mejia has made a living cooking breakfast foods since he was 15, starting out as a cook for Lincolnwood-based Danziger Kosher and eventually landing a gig as a chef position at M. Henry in Andersonville.
New he's running a new brunch place on the Northwest Side that's getting some rave reviews in the neighborhood.
Bryn Mawr Breakfast Club opened in September in North Park offering twists on breakfast classics like French toast stuffed with Canadian bacon, scrambled eggs, arugula and asiago cheese.
Bryn Mawr Breakfast Club, 3401 W. Bryn Mawr Ave.
• Missing some sweetness in your life? Head to Andersonville Sunday.
Andersonville’s 8th annual dessert crawl takes over the neighborhood from 2-5 p.m. Sunday.
For $20, crawlers can satisfy their sweet tooth by choosing two routes: Candy Corn or Caramel Apple. Both routes will participants to 12 Andersonville restaurants and businesses.
To buy tickets for the dessert crawl, click here.
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