Restaurant Roundup: More days for Charlie’s Pizza, Taco Bell shortages, new menu items
June 9, 2022
Charlie’s Pizza House now is open seven days a week. The Yankton-based restaurant, which returned to Sioux Falls this spring after a 30-some-year absence, started with dinner hours Wednesday through Sunday. New hours are 5 to 9 p.m. Monday and Tuesday, 4 to 10 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. Last orders go in 30 minutes before closing.
While Taco Bell has announced that customer demand and supply shortages have shortened the return of the customer-favorite Mexican Pizza, all five locations in Sioux Falls are still serving it. But once the inventory of specific flour tortillas used to make the menu item is gone, we’ll be in the same predicament as many other places in the country. The Mexican Pizza is meant to be a permanent menu item, but Taco Bell is expecting it won’t be until the fall.
Crave’s new menu for the season features several seafood dishes and sushi items. General manager Scott Keszler said his favorite is the mango lobster roll. It’s flash-fried tempura shrimp, Korean short rib tacos and four new flatbreads.
The truffle mushroom flatbread features a crust brushed with olive oil and a mornay sauce with garlic, poached mushrooms and mozzarella that’s finished with truffle oil and arugula.
Sickies Garage Burgers & Brews is celebrating its 10th anniversary of its founding in Fargo with a throwback menu. Now there are eight locations – including Sioux Falls, which opened in November 2016 on South Louise Avenue – and they’re serving some of the items that were on the original menu. Offerings include a tater tot hot dish burger, chili cheese fries burger, fried potato salad, chili cheese fries, buffalo chicken cheese balls and a birthday cake shake. The anniversary menu will be available through July.
Let It Fly’s featured menu for June includes barbecue ribs, a BLT with chicken salad, a candied pecan strawberry salad, and chicken and waffles. Get your choice of fried white or dark meat served with Omaha-made Heavenly Waffles, which are yogurt-based and protein-packed. Top it off with syrup and Fireball honey butter. For dessert, there’s a creme brulee cheesecake.
Carino’s has added a pickup and delivery option on carinos.com, and customers can get free delivery through June 21.
T-Juanita Street Food & Cheladas is planning to open June 19 in the former Jacky’s Restaurant location on East Eighth Street. It will be open that day from 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. with singer Jenni Lopez performing from 5 to 11 p.m.
SoDak Soda plans to open July 2 “if all continues according to schedule,” the gourmet soda shop said on social media. It will be in a retail center on 85th Street west of Western Avenue. In addition to drinks, SoDak Soda will serve cookies and possibly other treats.
Prairie C Dessert Bar and Orange Creek Farms are partnering for the third year on a special offering for Father’s Day. The bakery is making Maple Candied Bacon Roses using Vermont maple syrup and the farm’s bacon set on a blend of milk and dark chocolate and finished with Applewood smoked sea salt. Get a gift box of four for $16 or six for $24. Orders must be placed by noon Saturday. Order by calling 605-777-3445 or sending a message on Facebook.
Six food trucks and a special offering of Hawaiian food will be available at Saturday’s Festival of Cultures. The 25th annual event at Falls Park is organized by the Multi-Cultural Center of Sioux Falls. Stroll through local vendor booths, participate in interactive workshops to learn cultural traditions and skills, taste a variety of foods from around the world from local food trucks and enjoy entertainment. Here’s the food truck lineup: Taqueria Juanita, Gyros & More, Chubby’s, Windy City Bites, Kane’s Baked Goods & Cafe and The SDSU Ice Cream Truck. The event is from noon to 5 p.m., and admission is free. To see the schedule of events and suggestions for parking, click here.
Wilde Prairie Winery north of Brandon is having its open house for the season from noon to 5 p.m. Saturday. Enjoy live music, activities for the kids, cookies and, of course, wine. The winery is dog-friendly. Get the details here.
The traveling food truck On the Hook Fish & Chips will be back in town Saturday. Find it from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. in the parking lot at Tractor Supply Co. on North Cliff Avenue.
Vuture Food, a traveling food truck that describes its menu as plant-based junk food, will be back downtown at Covert Artisan Ales & Cellars from 4 to 8 p.m. Tuesday. While the full menu will be posted that morning on social media, Crispy Chik’n Sandwiches with patties made of soy, wheat and peas and Loaded Fries will be available.
The second Tuesday of the month is coming up next week, so it’s time for the second Taco Tuesday Bike Ride of the year. Meet at the Scheels south entrance at 5:45 p.m. The group will head out to ride the bike trail at 6 p.m. and then come back to Vinyl Taco just south of Scheels for 20 percent off food.
Changes in hours, service
M.B. Haskett Delicatessen has added dinner service from 5 to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday.
Zooks Coffee Bar in Tea now opens at 7 a.m. Saturdays and Sundays. There’s also a new special on Wednesdays: buy a medium drink – except blenders – and get upgraded to a large for free.
Here are other food and drink headlines from the past week.
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