Restaurant Roundup: Lalibela buffet, new menus, specials
Oct. 17, 2024
The Ethiopian restaurant Lalibela has added a weekend buffet with many popular entrees, salads, fresh fruit and breads. It’s available from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. The price is $20 for those older than 12, $12.50 for age 7-12 and free for those younger than 7. The regular menu is available too.
Lunch service is back at Chef Lance’s on Phillips, and here’s a look at the menu. It’s available from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
Squealer’s Smoke Shack in Tea has added gluten-free 12-inch pizzas. Squealer’s makes each one to order, and there are five varieties: buffalo chicken, alfredo chicken, all meat, barbecue pulled pork and bacon cheeseburger. Also new to the menu: sweet potato tots.
Episodes of “America’s Best Restaurants” that were filmed in the Sioux Falls area this summer are starting to be available online. Carnaval Brazilian Grill’s feature dropped Wednesday. The episode for CHUDS Pub & Grub in Larchwood, Iowa, will be available Monday, and Squealer’s Smoke Shack in Tea is having a viewing party at 6:15 p.m. Oct. 30 for the premiere of its episode. They can be seen on each restaurant’s Facebook page or AmericasBestRestaurants.com.
T.C.’s Referee Sports Bar & Grill leaned into comfort food for its fall and winter specials. Among the early customer favorites: Chicken-N-Waffles and Shrimp & Steak Tenders.
M.B. Haskett has a new dinner menu for fall. “This menu is full of some favorites, as well as some new selections for you to enjoy,” the restaurant said in a post on social media. Dinner is served from 5 to 9 p.m. Thursday through Saturday.
Remedy Brewing Co. has added several offerings to the food menu: a chicken Parmesan sandwich, Rimedio chopped beef sandwich, stuffed focaccia bread with rotating ingredients, blueberry ricotta flatbread and pretzel bites served with beer cheese and beer mustard.
New features at Monks Ale House are the Vinnie Barbarino pizza and the Chi-Town Smashy burger. The pizza has vodka sauce, mozzarella, sausage, hot giardiniera and a pecorino and Parmesan blend. The burger is a double onion smashburger with provolone and giardiniera aioli on a potato roll with beef au jus for dipping and a side of chips.
Specials for October at Maribella are Wild Boar Bolognese and Pizza Azzura with spicy pomodoro sauce, chicken, gorgonzola, fresh mozzarella, red onion, peppadew and arugula. For dessert, the Torta Colonne is a chocolate almond tart crust with a cherry jam center, topped with vanilla whipped cream. The featured cocktail is Tempo Maglione, a butternut squash-iInfused 2X0 French Oak bourbon with Montenegro, Angostura and sage.
Maribella’s sister restaurant, R Wine Bar & Kitchen, has three additions to the menu: Lemon Herb Salmon, Honey Pepper Steak and Champagne Chicken with a three-cheese risotto.
The featured flatbread of the month at The SandBar & Grill is Roasted Garlic Chicken and Mushroom.
CNC Food Factory in the Avera Fitness Center has three new doughnuts, an improved recipe for another one and a seasonal favorite. New flavors are Almond Raspberry, an almond cake doughnut with raspberry icing; the Humming Bird, a pineapple/banana cake doughnut with cream cheese icing and walnuts in the doughnut and on top; and Pecan Pie. The improved Elvis is back, and Pumpkin is available now. Most of the doughnuts that CNC makes are available in gluten-free versions too.
The food truck 605 Barbecue Co. has picked a private barrel of whiskey from Cedar Ridge Distillery in Swisher, Iowa. The seven-year-aged rye whiskey is available in 174 bottles that feature a QR code that leads to four curated barbecue recipes that feature the liquor. The bottled whiskey will be available beginning Friday at Liquor Mart South, 5004 S. Cliff Ave. At a launch party from 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday at the liquor store, 605 Barbecue will be giving out free barbecue featuring whiskey-inspired ingredients.
With the long run of warm weather, The Good Earth Farm near Lennox is having another pizza night this weekend. Hours will be 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday. Reserve your crust here. The pumpkin patch will be open too.
Gibs Sports Bar also is taking advantage of the nice weather and will have a Big Screen Tailgate Party on Sunday for the Vikings vs. Lions, followed by a Super Bowl rematch with the Chiefs vs. the 49ers.
If you like hard cider, Calico Skies Vineyard & Winery east of Canton is celebrating its annual Cider and Strings on Sunday. Calico’s hard ciders are taking over the tap lines, and there will be live music, wood-fired pizza, wings and apple brats. The 605 Magic Art Bus will be on-site with lots of craft supplies and ideas. Hours are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. See the full schedule here.
The bartenders at Glacial Lakes Distillery & Brewhouse have crafted 10 seasonal cocktails for fall.
Check out the new daily deals at Invictus Pizza Kitchen.
Let It Fly has a new featured weekday lunch menu with $12 specials that include a nonalcoholic drink. They’re available from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. along with the full menu.
IHOP has a new value menu for weekdays. House Faves are available for $6 from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. weekdays. Choices include the Breakfast Faves Combo, House Scramble, Ham & Cheese Omelet and French Toast Breakfast.
Jimmy John’s has two new sandwiches for a limited time. The Smoked Cheddar Bourbon Clubs come with turkey and bacon or roast beef and bacon.
New subs at Subway feature spicy toppings on Ghost Pepper Bread. The limited-time features are Spicy Nacho Chicken, Spicy Nacho Steak and Fiery Meatball.
Hot sauce happiness! During the pandemic, Firehouse Subs stopped providing bottles of hot sauce for customers to use on their sandwiches. Now, they’re back. Diners have 13 options.
Here’s another returning item at Firehouse Subs: gluten-free buns.
Changes in hours, service
- The food truck Taqueria Gonzalez has moved from its original base at Ninth and Kiwanis to the parking lot of the former Burger Time at 2300 W. 12th St. Owner Ricardo Gonzalez plans to stay open through October or as long as the weather holds. Hours typically are 10 or 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.
- Mechanical issues that temporarily closed Windy City Bites’ brick-and-mortar location haven’t been resolved yet, so The Orion Pub has invited the business’ food truck to park outside the downtown bar. Windy City Bites will serve its Chicago-style cuisine from 5 to 11 p.m. Thursday and Friday, 3 to 11 p.m. Saturday and 3 to 9 p.m. Sunday through October. “At the end of the day, us downtown food and beverage businesses have to stick together, and we saw this an opportunity to help out a business we enjoy while sharing our audience and offering a new flavor outside of the frozen pizzas we typically have available,” pub co-owner Jon Oppold said in a news release.
- Daily Clean Food & Drink is closing earlier most days – at 3 p.m. instead of 6 p.m. New hours are 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Saturday and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday. Now, brunch is served all day.
- With the closing of Office Bar in Montrose, the cafe My Place Montrose has expanded its hours: 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4:30 to 8 p.m. Wednesday through Saturday and 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday.
Here are other food and drink headlines from the past week.
Former restaurant building being demolished near The Empire Mall
Food truck owner, partner open Taco Vault with artisan tacos, craft beer
Sausage shop, jewelry business to help fill downtown marketplace
