Vienna Beef

50 places to eat for $5 or less

2012-03-28 13:15:00

Dining out for $5 or less may seem like a fantasy, but Southern California has much to offer for those on a tight budget. For affordable Vietnamese fare, for example, venture to Garden Grove or Westminster. Or look to food trucks for unique, inexpensive...

Premium hot dogs: best of show around Los Angeles

2008-04-30 00:00:00

There ARE a million doggeries in the City of Angels (and Dodgers). Here are some of the places where you'll find new-wave hot dogs. Boa Steakhouse, with its stylish decor of gnarled tree trunks and colorful cylindrical lamps, has a Kobe beef steak and...

National Restaurant Association show: Samples, swag draw thousands

2013-05-21 00:00:00

The National Restaurant Association Restaurant, Hotel-Motel Show (or as convention-goers say, "No, not that NRA ...") is the yearly confab of food and hospitality professionals at McCormick Place that began Saturday and ends Tuesday. As national...

Vienna Beef to buy hot dog factory on S. Side

2013-05-08 08:38:00

Crain's Chicago Business reports: North Side staple Vienna Beef has signed a contract to buy a former Sara Lee hot dog factory at 1000 W. Pershing Rd. Terms were not disclosed for the deal, which has arisen amid's Chicago's plans to reroute Elston...

Presidential burger battle at BGR The Burger Joint

2012-10-10 14:21:00

� BGR The Burger Joint is holding a presidential burger battle. The 20-unit chain with locations in Coral Gables (232 Miracle Mile, 305-461-9989) and Kendall (Carter Square, 13668 SW 88th St., 305-386-5658) created two unique burgers late last month...

BGR The Burger Joint rolls out presidential burgers

2012-09-25 08:04:00

BGR The Burger Joint is reviving its Presidential Burger Contest with burgers inspired by President Barack Obama and Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney. The burgers, available in BGR locations nationwide beginning Sept. 25, are odes to the...

Zoo mustard mystery continues

2012-06-26 00:00:00

The question from Michael A. Collins sounded relatively simple: What mustard was served with hot dogs at Lincoln Park Zoo's Caf� Brauer in the 1950s and 1960s? "Try as I might, I have been unable to find who made it,'' wrote the resident of Cary, Ill....

Poochie's, your classic Chicago-area grill

2012-05-31 00:00:00

Why Poochie's? Of the untold number of Vienna Beef slingers around town, why single out one place in Skokie? If you plotted every Chicago-area hot dog/burger/Italian beef quick-serve on a graph, the dots would line up along a bell curve. "Extraordinary"...

Mustard mystery lingers

2012-04-10 00:00:00

Q: Growing up in Old Town back in the late 1950s and early 1960s meant numerous trips to the North Avenue beach and Lincoln Park Zoo, among other places, and eating cotton candy and hot dogs. I remember the hot dogs at Caf� Brauer at the zoo came with...

Where to get your locally grown Christmas tree

2011-12-05 16:24:52

Northwestern Wrestling Hosts No. 1 Penn State Friday

2012-01-11 16:35:15

Chicago wienie wars: Vienna loses first round to Red Hot

2011-06-23 10:58:00

Hot dog maker Red Hot Chicago scored a victory in "the great Chicago wienie wars," in which Vienna Beef sued Red Hot alleging it either stole the Vienna hot dog recipe or was falsely claiming its dogs were the same thing. A judge this week denied a...

Another big plus for the SoxFest? Better food. This is true at the Cell too, and once I spotted the Vienna Beef stand, I was in. Four dollars = four tickets = one hot dog.

2013-01-28 13:46:00

BGR's Obama burger features a signature BGR patty topped with a Chicago "Vienna Beef" hot dog with neon green relish and sport peppers.

2012-09-25 00:00:00

Neighborhood: Buena Park Type: American 8390 La Palma Ave, Buena Park (other location in Moreno Valley) (714) 220-6400, www.portillos.com/portillos/ Open 10:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sunday through Thursday; 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. $2.

2012-04-04 11:28:44