Taste of Morton Grove - "A Taste of Home." - [Past Event]

The Morton Grove Foundation will host this year's event on March 11 at the White Eagle Banquets and Restaurant, 6845 Milwaukee Ave., Niles. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Tickets are available for $30 in advance or $40 at the door. Tickets may be purchased at many locations including the Richard T. Flickinger Municipal Center, Century-21 Marino and Inland Bank.

Featured restaurants and other organizations so far scheduled to participate at "A Taste of Home" include: Catered by Design; China Chef; Dairy Queen; El Sol; Graziano's; Gulliver's; Kappy's Restaurant; Maier's Bakery; Maggiano's; Melting Pot; Orchard Village; Pizano's; Wa-Pa-Ghetti's; The White Eagle; and the Morton Grove Fire Department.

The Foundation plans to donate more than $40,000 from this year's Taste to the following local charities and organizations: Association of Horizon; Community Nutrition Network; For Autistic Kids Foundation; Foundation for Nager and Miller Syndrome; Friends of the Morton Grove Forest Preserves; Have Dreams; Leukemia Research Foundation (Davidson-Brin Chapter); Maine-Niles Association of Special Recreation; Maine Center; Misericordia; Morton Grove Baseball & Softball Association; Morton Grove Days Commission; Morton Grove Farmers' Market; Morton Grove Lion's Club; Morton Grove Sportsman's Club.

Morton Grove Woman's Club; Orchard Village; Pathway Center; Ray Graham Association; Shore Training Center; Standing Tall Charitable Foundation; and Turning Point.

For tickets call Kathy Hancock at the Morton Grove Chamber of Commerce, (847) 965-0330. For more information on the event contact Terry LeBeau at (312) 907-4035, or Jim and Yvette Karp at (847) 967-0222.

Dave148 wrote:The Morton Grove Foundation will host this year's event on March 11 at the White Eagle Banquets and Restaurant, 6845 Milwaukee Ave., Niles. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Attended Taste of Morton Grove last evening, had moderate expectations which were nicely exceeded. The event was very well run, friendly interactive mostly local participants well stocked with signature items, plenty of comfortable seating for dining, often a problem at this type of event, which sparked interesting wide ranging conversations, and an array of games, raffles and silent auctions benefiting worthwhile causes ranging from the Autistic Kids Foundation to the Morton Grove Farmers' Market.

White Eagle space is impossibly huge, the room we were in was football field size, literally, and that's but one section of the facility.

White Eagle Banquet room



Silent auction items ranged from signed sports memorabilia to BBQ books and sauces.



Best bite of the evening was not from a restaurant, but Orchard Village, a non profit that supports men, women and children with developmental disabilities.

Orchard Village Roasted Butternut Squash and Pear Soup



One always hears Firemen cook terrific chili, Morton Grove Fire Department's chili is top of the ladder, spicy, meaty, delicious. Some of, if not the best, chili I've had in years.

Morton Grove Fire Dept Chili



Chris, who participates on LTHforum as pizano345, represented Pizano's Glenview. I've not been to Pizano's, but after trying the pizza at Tof MG its now high on my list.

Chris, Pizano's Glenview



Other favorites of the evening were White Eagles pierogi, El Sol's guacamole, Kappy's, which I have passed eighty two hundred times without stopping, Grecian chicken, and China Chef's General Tso's chicken.

China Chef



While I did not try, Chocolate Fountain was very popular



Years since I had a Dairy Queen Dilly Bar, they really hit the spot



A recommended enjoyable evening, interesting conversation, good, if not hyper imaginative, food and pretty young ladies in charge of selling raffle tickets table to table.

Care to buy a Raffle Ticket? Yes, yes I would.



Enjoy,
Gary