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It’s National Ice Cream Month, and Hawaiian restaurant Sola is offering a three-course prix fixe menu that focuses on ice cream. The first course is octopus with sweet soy wasabi sorbet and ginger wakame seaweed. The second course is Wagyu hanger steak with fried blue cheese ice cream, roasted fingerlings, Chinese broccoli, and a port demi glaze. The final course is a flight of ice creams, including vanilla miso and cherry goat cheese. You can also add on additional wine pairings.

For its fifth anniversary, Ukrainian Village coffee roaster Dark Matter has released the Cherry Bomb Blend, made with triple-processed beans grown in Finca San Jose, Sonsanate, El Salvador. The natural-processed beans add bing cherry flavor, the pulp-natural beans provide dark chocolate notes, and the washed beans add red fruit acidity, making it an ideal summer coffee blend. There are only 500 bags available, 250 online and 250 at Star Lounge. The best part? Five bags have golden tickets, which could net you a free pound of coffee or three-day passes to Pitchfork, where Dark Matter will have a booth.

The changes keep coming in the West Loop – the area continues to add restaurants, bring in new bartenders, and perhaps most importantly, now there’s gelato on an already great menu. Here’s what’s new.