Super Bowl Feasts
Let’s be real, the Super Bowl is as much about the food as it is about the football and the commercials. It’s of the utmost important that your table is set with snacks galore for the big game, and Chicago restaurants are rising to the occasion with winning party trays and other takeaway options to make your football-viewing festivities that much more delicious.
A restaurant that is also a butcher shop and deli is the type of restaurant you want to patronize on Super Bowl Sunday, right? Chop Shop is stocked to the gills with all your Super essentials this year with their “Sub Pack,” a takeaway package of 20 three-inch subs, two pounds of potato salad, two pounds of pasta salad, and a 16 ounce bottle of hot giardiniera. Or if you prefer to cook for yourself, the “Butcher’s Grill Pack” contains six 1/2 pound beef burgers, two pounds of housemade roast beef, three pounds of mild or hot Italian sausage, Provolone cheese, French bread, burger buns, and hot giardiniera.
Barbecue is mandatory on Super Bowl Sunday. You can’t watch a football game without some good pulled pork and ribs. County Barbeque has your bases covered this year with their Super Bowl food spread. Their “Tips & Chicks” package comes stocked with burly fare like Chicago rib tips, Carolina-style pulled pork, smoked chicken wings, and slider buns. Another option is their “Feathered Pig” package, complete with St. Louis spare ribs, smoked chicken wings, mac & cheese, honey-jalapeno cornbread, cole slaw, and pickles.
Since the Super Bowl is an apt time to pig out, you may as well do it right with an entire suckling pig. Mercat a la Planxa is offering their famous whole sucking pigs for carryout, in case you have a whole brood of meat-eaters to feed during the game. The pigs are sourced from a local farm, marinated in Catalan-style seasonings and juices for two days, and cooked whole. It’s served with grilled green onions, rosemary white beans, fingerling potatoes, and espinacas a la Catalene.
Another integral part of any well-rounded Super Bowl diet is chili, a dish practically synonymous with good ol’ fashioned pig skin. And let’s not forget pizza, the most popular food for takeout and delivery on Super Bowl Sunday. For the big game, Compass Bar kills two birds with one Hail Mary stone with their special Super Bowl chili Frito pizza. Eat it while watching the game on one of the bar’s eight televisions throughout the bar and nursing some beer off their 200-strong beer list.
A surefire way to up the ante on meaty game day eats is by picking up a to-go charcuterie platter from the venerable meat masters at TETE Charcuterie. The hulking platter will be the envy of any home dinner table, brimming with sausages, salumi, head cheese, mustard, and pickles.
Bud Light towers, chicken wings, and burgers are some of the alluring specials on deck at Chicago’s ROCKS outposts. ROCKS Lakeview is hosting a Super Bowl shindig with a game of Super Bowl Bingo during halftime. Patrons will also have the opportunity to enter to win raffle prizes like a bottle of ROCKS blend Angel’s Envy, a ROCKS ice cube tray, ROCKS T-shirt, pint glasses, and more. At ROCKS North Center, the special game day menu focuses on Super Bowl-themed burgers.
Speaking of tailgating, do it like a pro with The Local Chicago’s Tailgate Package with a slew of all-American staples. Think USDA Prime sliders with aged cheddar and tomato-horseradish sauce, jumbo chicken drummettes with Maytag bleu cheese dressing, lobster quesadillas with butter-poached lobster and fresh guacamole, jalapeño cornbread with maple-pecan butter, and blue cheese fondue chips with truffle oil and cracked pepper.
A couple more smoky-good barbecue options for the Super Bowl are Smoke Daddy and Chicago q, two esteemed destinations in their own rights. At Smoke Daddy, they’re offering pick-up or delivery BBQ packages and sub trays available in two sizes.
Then there’s Chicago q, the Gold Coast barbecue bastion doling out a special Super Bowl catering menu featuring everything from smoked dry-rubbed wings and beef brisket sliders to Pitmaster mac & cheese.
Chop Shop
2033 W. North Avenue, Chicago
(773) 537-4440
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County Barbeque
1352 W. Taylor Street, Chicago
(312) 929-2528
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Mercat a la Planxa
638 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago
(312) 765-0524
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Compass Bar
433 W. Diversey Parkway, Chicago
(773) 248-3230
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TETE Charcuterie
1114 W. Randolph Street, Chicago
(312) 733-1178
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ROCKS Lakeview
3463 N. Broadway Street, Chicago
(773) 472-0493
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ROCKS North Center
4138 N. Lincoln Avenue, Chicago
(773) 857-1793
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The Local Chicago
198 E. Delaware Place, Chicago
(312) 280-8887
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Smoke Daddy
1804 W. Division Street, Chicago
(773) 772-6656
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Chicago q
1160 N. Dearborn Street, Chicago
(312) 642-1160
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