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Friday, December 21, 2012

Where Are the Best Places for Soup?

We’re asking readers to suggest great, local places to get delicious, hot soup.

It’s windy; it’s frigid. Winter awoke at last, and it is a good time to enjoy a bowl of hot soup. Calling on the knowledge of the estimable community on Des Plaines Patch’s Facebook page, we asked, who knows a good place for soup? Here, in no particular order, were some of the suggestions: Add your suggestion in the comment section below. Click on the green, “Upload Photos and Videos,” button above to share a picture of the soup you’re enjoying.

Sharon

7:19 am on Friday, March 1, 2013

Seafood soup, beer cheese soup or any of the changing daily soups at Mac's on Slade in Palatine. All homemade!   more ›

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Photo of the Day

Photo of the Day: Good Friday Shrimp Run

Dozens of customers from Des Plaines and surrounding suburbs flocked to Don’s Dock for fried shrimp on Friday.

Like community clockwork, dozens of residents from Des Plaines and other suburbs swarmed the fish counter at Don’s Dock Seafood Market, 1220 E. Northwest Highway, on Friday. Catholics celebrated Good Friday on April 6, and many do not eat red meat on Fridays during Lent, which occurs over the six weeks leading up to Easter. The signature dish is fried shrimp, and everyone Patch spoke with was waiting for an order of them. Cathleen Tite, of Park Ridge, said coming to Don’s Dock for seafood on Friday was “just a classic.” Related: Check out all of the Photos of the Day. The last one featured high school students playing an impromptu concert for downtown passers-by. Tite said when she lived in Chicago, every neighborhood had a fish house. “It…

Robert

10:10 am on Saturday, April 7, 2012

Don's Dock is the best for seafood.   more ›

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