Restaurant Roundup: Breakfast pizza pop-up, local ice cream now in stores
Jan. 25, 2024
The new Invictius Pizza Kitchen is offering a breakfast pizza pop-up. The locally owned restaurant will have three options from 7 to 10 a.m. Feb. 1. Customize your pizza with shredded cheese, scrambled eggs, breakfast meats, veggies and one of three sauces: cream cheese, jalapeno cheese sauce and sausage gravy. After seeing how the first pop-up goes, the restaurant might offer more dates.
Berrybrook Dairy Nook has started selling packaged pints of ice cream at Pomegranate Market and Sioux Falls Food Co+op. Sales kicked off with four flavors: chocolate, vanilla, cookie dough and poppyseed lemon. Offerings will change throughout the year. A few years ago, owners Sherilyn and Will Ortman started selling their ice cream at festivals, using some ingredients from their Freeman-area farm, Berrybrook Organics. Now with their recently USDA-approved creamery, they have expanded into retail sales.
If you’re missing the summertime pleasure of eating a hot dog from a cart, Let Me Be Frank will be at J&L Harley-Davidson for Indoor Bike Nights this winter and spring. The hot dog cart will be serving at the dealership from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday. Other dates are Feb. 23, March 22 and April 26.
Simon’s Tacos has new menu items, including several breakfast dishes that are served all day. Desayuno tipico is a traditional breakfast plate with carne asada, two over-easy eggs, fried plantains, avocado, beans, cheese and sour cream. Platanos is fried sweet plantains with beans, cheese and sour cream. There’s a breakfast plate with scrambled eggs, ham, avocado, beans, sour cream and cheese with corn or flour tortillas and a breakfast bowl with eggs, potatoes, jalapeno, onions, beans, sour cream and cheese with corn tortillas. New birria-style dishes are a chimichanga and chicken tacos. Additions for the kids menu include a taco combo and a bean and cheese burrito.
Harry Potter fans can have fun all day at Granite City Food & Brewery on Sunday. The restaurant is having a themed brunch from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., trivia from 5 to 7 p.m. and special cocktails and mocktails all day. Drinks include the Felix Felicis, Patronus Charm, Death Eater’s Draught, Hair of the 3-Headed Dog, Polyjuice Potion, Otter’s Fizzy Juice and ButterBeer. Many of those will be available as mocktails. Reservations are recommended.
The family-style menu for takeout at Grille 26 has been updated with new appetizers and desserts. There’s also a new chicken piccata dish with grilled chicken breasts, mashed potatoes, a lemon garlic caper sauce and steamed broccoli.
Subway has new Footlong Sidekicks. Get a 12-inch Cinnabon churro for $2, a footlong Auntie Annie’s pretzel for $3 or a 12-inch Subway chocolate chip cookie for $5.
Look’s Marketplace has added online ordering for its groceries and branded merchandise like T-shirts and glassware. About 80 percent of the products are available online, said Jay Larson, the store’s IT/commerce manager. Beer and wine – pickup only – will be added soon, he said. Customers can order through Instacart for delivery or on Look’s website for pickup, with curbside service as an option. Online ordering for the restaurant should be returning soon, Larson said. It has been down because of a change in the point-of-sale system.
Sunny’s Pizzeria has added another brewery to its wholesale empire – its first in the Sioux City area. Jefferson Beer Supply, which opened a brewery and 18-tap taproom in Jefferson in 2022 is serving Sunny’s pizzas. They’re available in six varieties. “The growth that we’ve been experiencing selling wholesale pizzas over the past year has been a pleasant surprise,” Sunny’s owner Jon Oppold said in a news release. “It’s been fun to help out some really cool establishments that want to provide some sort of hot food but without the overhead of a full kitchen. I’ve known Nicki and Anthony for a year or two, and I love what they’ve established in the small town of Jefferson – it’s a ‘must stop’ location for us every time we head that way to go to Sioux City or Omaha. I’m confident that this will be a win-win partnership, and I’m super excited to have our pizza down in Jefferson and look forward to continued growth in the Sioux City metro.” Jefferson Beer Supply is now the sixth wholesale partner for Sunny’s.
Fan-favorite black licorice ice cream is available for a limited time – maybe into the weekend — in dips or pints at the central and east locations for Stensland Family Farms. It hit the stores Wednesday. The central location at 3101 W. 41st St. also is opening earlier for customers who like to grab dessert after an early lunch. New hours are 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Saturday, 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 1 to 6 p.m. Sunday.
The 10th annual Sioux Empire on Tap returns Saturday, and tickets are still available for both general admission sampling times at the Sioux Falls Convention Center. The event includes more than 80 craft beers, ciders, spiked seltzers and more. Also available: live music, local vendors and food for purchase. Tickets are available by clicking on this link.
Kaladi’s Bistro is donating 20 percent of sales Saturday to help with expenses for 16-year-old Austin Hilbrand, who was injured in a crash in late October.
Dairy Queen sites are having a special Mother and Son SONday Social on Sunday. Get a free small Blizzard with a kid’s meal purchase, and enjoy a superhero activity. Hours are 3 to 7 p.m.
Flyboy Donuts is offering a Voices Against Cancer box of doughnuts with a portion of the proceeds going to the local nonprofit. The dozen doughnuts can be ordered online at flyboydonuts.com. The business also is donating a portion of punch card sales. The fundraiser goes through January. Voices Against Cancer works to raise funds and awareness for pediatric cancer patients, hospitals and research.
The latest pop-up flavor at Nothing Bundt Cakes is gluten-free lemon raspberry. The bundtlets will be available through Feb. 3 or until supplies are gone.
The last day to buy molasses cookies at Eileen’s Colossal Cookies is Jan. 31. They won’t return to the menu until Oct. 1. Cookie dough also is available.
Fat Kid Filly’s has created a Super Bowl catering menu. Orders for meals must be placed before Feb. 1. The deadline for appetizer and dessert orders is Feb. 3.
The food truck Southern Perfection BBQ also has a Super Bowl catering option with a $150 meal that will serve six to eight people.
Wendy’s has a new breakfast burrito that’s filled with two eggs, six strips of bacon, seasoned potatoes, American cheese and a cheese sauce. The national chain is touting that the bacon is oven-baked daily in the restaurants.
Papa Johns has new Calzone Papa Bites for a limited time. The baked dough bites are stuffed with a cheesy blend of mozzarella and garlic herb ricotta, pepperoni, Italian sausage and green peppers. They’re served with a pizza dipping sauce.
Perkins Restaurant & Bakery has a new late-night special at participating locations. Get half-price appetizers from 9 p.m. to closing time. Offerings include the Build-Your-Own-Sampler, chicken strips, mozzarella sticks, fried pickles, onion rings and Strawberry & Cream Cheese Crispers. And for all-day dining, the Magnificent Seven is back on the dine-in menu for $8, also at participating locations.
Crawford’s Bar & Grill has new winter cocktails: Better Than Brunch, Reign Storm and Zero Degrees. There’s also a new mocktail: Strawberry Margarita.
The new specialty cocktails at T.C.’s Referee Sports Bar & Grill lean into a tropical vibe to help you forget winter, with a Boozy Hot Chocolate for a warm-me-up.
Changes in hours, service
- Buffalo Trading Post west of Colton has dropped Monday hours until spring.
- Central Dakota Perk in Tea is dropping afternoon hours starting next week. New hours are 6:30 to 11 a.m. weekdays, 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sunday. The buy-one-get-one-at-half-price special will be available from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
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