From the Dawali website--doesn't sound like there's tons of room on the patio for spectators on Thursday:
Dawali’s First Annual Best Recipe Contest!
How it works:
Submit your favorite recipes built from ingredients currently on the Dawali menu beginning Tuesday, June 1 through Wednesday, June 30.
Dawali’s Owner and Executive Chef, Nasser Amer, will select five top recipes. The finalists will be notified Monday, July 5 and invited to a taste test event on Thursday, July 15 where guest judges will choose the best recipe. The event will be held on Dawali’s newly opened patio that is open for lunch and dinner daily with seating for 30.
The winner of the Best Recipe Contest will receive their recipe on Dawali’s menu for three months, a $100 gift certificate to Dawali and a complimentary one-night stay at the newly renovated Holiday Inn Chicago Mart Plaza.
"Life is a combination of magic and pasta." -- Federico Fellini
"You're not going to like it in Chicago. The wind comes howling in from the lake. And there's practically no opera season at all--and the Lord only knows whether they've ever heard of lobster Newburg." --Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane.