Sunday, September 5, 2010
6pm : A Lobster Boil
$60.00 per person. Reservations required.
Yea, its the end of the long weekend and yea, it's kind of the end of the summer.
I want a last hurrah and I'm thinking maybe you do too! How about a dinner with friends and family that's casual and lively and fun and messy!
Corner Cooks invites you to the first annual Lobster Boil.
Lobster, and potatoes, and the last of summer's corn, and the best tomato and frizzled leek salad and ice cream sundaes. We'll throw newspaper down on the tables. We'll bring in a kegger. (And champagne) We'll sleep well. (we'll cook-you'll party)/


12-2:00 PM, Friday, October 15, 2010
Dine and Discuss
"Anna Karenina" relates the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer Count Vronsky. Set against a vast and richly textured canvas of nineteenth-century Russia, Anna's tragedy unfolds with relentless force as she rejects her passionless marriage to the aging official Karenin and must endure the hypocrisies of society. Join Claudia Traudt for lunch at Corner Cooks as she sheds light on Tolstoy's masterpiece. Claudia Traudt holds a BFA in Painting from Saint Mary's College at Notre Dame and an MA from The Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago, where she focused on literature and did dissertation work on Shakespeare, Joyce, and Yeats. Tickets are $25. Call (847) 441-0134.


Thursday, September 16, 2010
6:30 Girl's Night Out
Eat, Pray, Love -see the movie-come here and eat the food Julia ate!
$30 Dinner buffet. Short of a trip to Italy to eat India to pary and Indonesia to love, come to Corner Cooks and spend an evening talking about the movie and enjoying the menu. By now, the kids should be all set so take a night off with us!

Limoncello Martinis

Margharita Pizza with Thin Neopolitan style crust

Mini Grilled Shrimp skewers with Fiery Lemongrass-Chile Sambal

Indonesian Chicken Satay

Curried Cauliflower & Vegetables over Couscous

‘Baci’ style Hazelnut & Chocolate Mousse Cups


12-2:00 PM, Friday, September 17, 2010
Hard Boiled: The Classic American Detective
The British have Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple. We Americans have Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, Nick and Nora Charles. These are our "hard-boiled" American detectives - heavy-drinking, no-nonsense loners who are nevertheless honorable men with a soft spot for dames. Professor Cynthia Rutz will explore the code of this American brand of detective: this tough guy, good with a gun, whose "rude wit, disgust for sham, and contempt for pettiness" is so much a part of the American ideal. Tickets are $25.


Friday, September 24, 2010
FASHION in the court with Gray

Fall Collections by 2 New York Designers:
Project Runway’s EMMETT McCARTHY &
design team HUNTER DIXON

A Fashionable Lunch
11:30 cocktails
12:00 fashion show & commentary
1:00 lunch

$50 per person
(proceeds to the American Cancer Society
in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month)

Space is limited and filled on first come basis.
Call or e-mail gray for reservations by September 10th
gray@grayboutique.com 847.446.5650



Wednesday, October 6, 2010   
6:30- 9pm  $25 (cash bar)
First Mad Men martini included.
It's Mad! Banana Republic Fashion show Girl's Night!
Enjoy a buffet dinner (Mad Men style) while getting a first hand glimpse of the new line of Mad Men clothing brought directly to us from Banana Republic.
This is the perfect chance to let the store come to you! Grab your friends and eat and drink and see what the style is all about. Coupons will be offered to our guests only and good at Banana Republic, The Gap and Old Navy!  DInner at Jerry's will be raffled off (bring a business or personal card).

Thursday, October 7, 2010
6:30-9  $60 Lettuce Entertain you's  Big Bowl comes to the corner!
An evening with Chef Marc Bernard from Big Bowl. A presentation dinner with the chef with all the secrets of  the Chinese kitchen. Enjoy the special cuisine of Big Bowl and leave with skills to reproduce it at home...
Menu to follow, but space is extremely limited.

Friday, October 15, 2010
$60 6:30 pm Couples Cook: A Pig Roast!
Joe from Al's Market in Wilmette is doing a Pig Roast!
Bringing up the smoker and carving it for us.
You can cook the apps and sides, drink from our kegger, or just hang.
Menu: Pork off the pig, slaw, old fashioned baked beans, German potato salad, apple cobbler!

Thursday, November 11, 2010 (veteran's day)
Make and Take appetizers and pies for Thanksgiving
1:30-3:30pm  $65 for mom and child. $30 each additional
Teens at $35 unaccompanied
For moms and kids! (8 years and older)

Get those apps and pies made and in the freezer before the big day.
Make 3 apps and take home a dozen of each: (Risotto bombs, Phyllo pizza, Pigs in a blanket)
Make 2 pies and take home 1 of each:(Apple cranberry and pumpkin)
Space limited to 20.