Toffee Tasting Tomorrow...

Who could actually say "no" to a toffee tasting (57th Street store, Wednesday, 26Oct, 11AM-2PM (or until the toffee is gone or the toffee tasting experts beg for mercy)

If Hyde Park was toffee, it would be Terry's Toffee. Award-winning toffee, enrobed in lucscious dark, milk and white chocolate.

Terry's Toffee began out of love for an irresistible family recipe. Through intuition and creativity it has evolved into the highest order of sweets. This premium toffee will surprise, delight and inspire. And, Ooo-la-la.

New Soups...with the weather you know.

Heart-Warming Soups from the local company Spark of the Heart are now at both Zaleski & Horvath MarketCafe locations. They are excellent, and they work right out of the package, no extra ingredient hoop-jumping necessary.

They use organic ingredients, split peas, lentils, and beans bought locally. They are vegan and are easily prepared - just add water and some olive oil if you like.

The vegetables are sourced from a small company in northern Wisconsin. They are air-dried and contain no preservatives. We have all three current varieties and they tell they are working on a few more. Delicious.

Holiday menu on the way

Just a quick note on Zaleski & Horvath MarketCafe menu offerings for the upcoming holiday season (yes, it is in fact time to start thinking about...everything). We will be offering Turkeys, Duck, and Goose for pre-order as well as a range of creative and traditional sides and salads. we will also be offering our delicious brine mix again this year. And we will have some new surprises as well.

Gobble Gobble.

Croissant Evolution

We have been working on improving our already excellent croissant. Our latest croissant, available in traditional, chocolate, and almond versions, is a traditional style croissant with fantastic flakiness. We do run out, if you want to try one, earlier in the day is always better.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream - A show you must see!

July 15th and 16th, 7:30PM at the LaSalle Street Theatre
1136 N. LaSalle Street, Chicago, IL

We do not recommend many plays but this staging is terrific.

Ahhhhh.....Summer

Where does time go? It has been a blur for the last six months but now Summer is here. Chicago Summer. 92 with 70% humidity. So some of the updates, if you don't know already: we have updated the menu with a couple of new sandwiches (there were a couple of areas we thought were lacking - a salmon sandwich and a pastrami sandwich), we added a patio to the 57th Street Z&H (a hidden garden if you will, to access you need to walk around the building and enter through the rear gate), we continue to bring in new and interesting (and delicious)retail items - one example is Callie's Pimento Cheese from Charleston SC, a true Southern delicacy; we have some more surprises in the works as well.

We look forward to seeing you this Summer at both 47th Street and 57th Street.

Here comes Mardi Gras...

In order to truly indulge on Mardi Gras, we're going to have our weekend-famous beignets available at 57th Street! We're all very excited, and we're sure you will be too.

If you haven't jumped aboard the beignet-train yet, here's the scoop...

- Beignets are adorable little French-style doughnuts (also made famous by Cafe du Monde in New Orleans)
- We make them fresh to order so they're warm and delicious
- Available filled (raspberry jam, vanilla pastry cream) or plain, and topped with either powdered or cinnamon sugar
- $1.75 each or 3 for $5
- Sell out risk is high! Get in early if you want them guaranteed, or give us a call if you want to do a pick-up order

We might even have a couple other Fat Tuesday specials up our sleeves, so be sure to stop by!