The new Entertainment Book

This week, I got the new Entertainment book. The new Entertainment book is to me, sort of like what the new Yellow Pages is like for Rene G. This year's book offers some impressive worthy entries. And of course there are hundreds more, but these are some of the most obviously (to me) worthwhile:

Lutnia Cosmopolitan Cafe
White Nights
Turkish Cuisine & Bakery
Monsoon
Grotto on State
Tre Kronor
El Tinajon
Continental Cafe
Barba Yianni
Mysore Woodlands
Gino's East
Edwardo's
Wholly Frijoles
Caponies
Chowpatti
Red Hen Bread
La Cazuela
Thai Super Chef
Bourgeois Pig Cafe
Twisted Spoke
Vito & Kesselman
Victory's Banner
Ann Sather
BQ Afro Root Cuisine
Bolat
Cullen's
Flowers Pot
Ice Dreams
Jazmyn's Jerk Chicken
Max's Italian Beef
Buona Beef
Michael's Chicago Style Red Hots

Buy one, get one free entree coupons at pretty much all these places, which is the kind of deal I like. And there's some cool non-food things too, like tickets to movies at Facets or Second City e.t.c. You can buy the books at www.entertainment.com, or probably from some neighborhood kid supporting some cause or other.

Cheers,

Aaron

Hi,

I belong to a group who uses Entertainment Books as a fundraiser. We make about $5 from every book sold. Last year, I went to Entertainment Books website to register my card. Since then, I have been getting weekly come-on's from them to buy another, order early or come and get it. I am sure I checked the box for no e-mail solicitations!

Buying from the kid in the neighborhood, or via the car wash or Kinkos (yes, some groups place their books at businesses), at least some organization is getting $5 of support.

You can also go to their website to order Entertainment Books for other parts of the country. If you have an organization you want to support, then find out their code number (maybe there is an index on line, I don't know) so they get the $5, because they do make good presents.

In any case, even with light use it doesn't take very long to recover the cost of the book.

Do they still come with those monthy $5 Dominick's coupons? Those paid for the book by themselves.

eatchicago wrote:Do they still come with those monthy $5 Dominick's coupons? Those paid for the book by themselves.

Yep, they do. You have to spend $50, I think, but if Dominick's is your regular grocer, than it's probably no sweat.

Cathy2 wrote:I belong to a group who uses Entertainment Books as a fundraiser. We make about $5 from every book sold. Last year, I went to Entertainment Books website to register my card. Since then, I have been getting weekly come-on's from them to buy another, order early or come and get it. I am sure I checked the box for no e-mail solicitations!

Long ago I created an account called "junkmailforbob" at a free Web-based mail service. Any transaction with a company, they get that address and no other. And I never give the address out to anyone else. So I know to check it in the days after a transaction and ignore it the rest of my life. Not only has it been a remarkably effective "firewall" to keep spam out of my regular inboxes, it ends up getting very little mail, I suspect because most vendors think it's a temporary address and don't bother adding it to their regular spam lists.

Bob S. wrote:

Cathy2 wrote:I belong to a group who uses Entertainment Books as a fundraiser. We make about $5 from every book sold. Last year, I went to Entertainment Books website to register my card. Since then, I have been getting weekly come-on's from them to buy another, order early or come and get it. I am sure I checked the box for no e-mail solicitations!

Long ago I created an account called "junkmailforbob" at a free Web-based mail service. Any transaction with a company, they get that address and no other. And I never give the address out to anyone else. So I know to check it in the days after a transaction and ignore it the rest of my life. Not only has it been a remarkably effective "firewall" to keep spam out of my regular inboxes, it ends up getting very little mail, I suspect because most vendors think it's a temporary address and don't bother adding it to their regular spam lists.

I use a similar technique (junk mail box for registrations, transactions, etc) and have found it to work well for me also.

stevez wrote:I use a similar technique (junk mail box for registrations, transactions, etc) and have found it to work well for me also.

you can also use http://www.mailinator.com , which is hard to describe, so just check it out.

Would definitly rather purchase book from a charitable
organization. Any suggestions Northwest side or near
Northwest suburbs?

I'm a big fan of the Entertainment Book, a huge book of coupons for various restaurants, among other things. I'm wondering if there are others who also have a Chicago Entertainment Book and if you have any places you recommend trying out. Most of the restaurants noted in the book include buy one, get one free entrees at so many establishments. Care to share any of your Entertainment book recommendations?

http://www.entertainment.com/save/browse?category=Dining

Several places we've been to because of the coupon:

Twisted Spoke (good, plentiful bar food)

El Tinajon (I love the refried black beans here).

Chicago Joe's (I like the burger and it's consistent)

Victory's Banner (most everyone likes this place)

Raw Bar

Marie's(for the Pizza)

Joy's Noodles (top notch Thai)

Max's Italian Beef (not the worst beef, not the best)

Gullivers (it is what is is)

Fondue Stube

Cubby Bear

Enjoy!

You may want to refer to this post.

I found the above post via our search engine.

Regards,

I would suggest checking out restaurant.com and the rewardsnetwork(.com). Some of these restaurants in the Entertainbook offer higher discounts on these other sites... or even in combination with rewardsnetwork.com, can give you more saving power.

Victory's Banner was just on Check Please and it looked good and homey and really cute. IIRC, average bill was $11 per person. It is a vegetarian place, but they do not like to promote that as they do not want to be known by that. At least that is what the girl on the show said...

Christine

FYI the 2006 Entertainment book is now available:

2006 Entertainment Book.

Ordering online will get you a $10 discount per book and a free $25 gift certificate. There are three chicago books, for North, South, and West+Central, each for $20 after the discount.

I'm not personally a fan of the books (I never get around to using 'em), but this makes the deal a little better.

I have an Entertainment book that was barely used. There is no way I can get to most of these coupons before the expiration date of November 1, 2011.

It would take me too long to write a list of what's left, so please let me know what you're interested in. Besides restaurant coupons, I still have ones for Six Flags, mini golf, bowling, clothes stores, etc.