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Announcing: Piranha Club #4

Piranha Club #4: Garlic & Greens Wednesday, May 16th, 6-8 PM. 1034 N Milwaukee Ave. This month, Chef Eric will team up with Fereshteh Toosi and her Garlic & Greens project to cook up vegan soul food with Dara Cooper of  Fresh Moves mobile grocery and Chef Tsadakeeyah of Majani Catering. Our menu will include peanut buttered collard greens, okra & […]
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Piranha Club #3: E 2 tha Z 2

Quite the good looking front of the house staff Z stares down a tough customer. The fabled “Dream” Torta ahogada de birria Spinach and oyster mushroom taco. Duck “confitas” taco with pickled jicama/ carrot and tamarindo mole.
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Announcing: Piranha Club #3

  You’ve waited for it, E 2 tha mizzahthafakkin Z back again in the mthafawkin hizzouse, Piranha style this time. E-Dogz style still too, know wut I’m sayin. Come n get it, muffucka! No tickets, no reservations, no seating, eat in the muthafkkn streets, mawfakker. April 21st, 5- 7 PM 1034 N Milwaukee Antojitos y […]
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Midwest BBQ Migration: 4/6

1000 miles, 6 tanks of gas, 90 lbs. of BBQ, and 130 happy diners later and I’m back in Chicago after an inspiring (and exhausting) trip down to Kansas City for the opening weekend of “The Bread Boys!” Sean Starowitz’s and Andrew Erdrich’s “Speakeasy” show at The Charlotte Street Foundation’s La Esquina space. The intention of […]
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Midwestern BBQ Migration

  E-Dogz is heading to Kansas City!                                                                                                 […]
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Piranha Club #2: The Last Last Meal

For Piranha Club #2 on March 10th, we prepared the last meal request of Lawrence Russell Brewer, the last last meal served in the Texas penal system. Brewer had ordered an obscene amount of food which when presented to him, he refused to eat in protest. The state then revoked this tradition for all death […]
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Announcing: Piranha Club #2

Piranha Club #2: The Last Last Meal Saturday March 10th, 7pm. Roots & Culture 1034 N Milwaukee Ave.   In September of last year, the state of Texas (which coincidentally is the state that                                           […]
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Piranha Club #1: The Bone Dinner

On Friday, February 17th, we kicked off the inaugural Piranha Club with an homage to Carol Goodden’s and Gordon Matta-Clark’s FOOD project. We recreated the menu from the infamous “Mattabones” dinner and inadvertently hosted the event 3 days prior to the 40th anniversary of the original dinner. Quickly referencing the text “Object to be Destroyed” […]
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Introducing: Piranha Club

The Piranha Club is a supper club.  A Midwestern spot where you have a few drinks and make new friends. The food’s in the middle, round and around, a plate of pickles and loaf of bread. We might cook mushrooms, or native grass, a goat’s spleen, or even your shoe. Piranhas are hungry, but that’s […]
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Annie 1/15

Last meal request: Pierogis, mixed dipping sauces, borscht
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