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From today's Chicago Tribune:
Hula dancing at Harry Caray's
By Phil Vettel
Published February 3, 2006
Harry Caray favored tropical-print shirts, so perhaps Tuesday's event won't seem so odd after all.
Harry Caray's restaurant at 33 W. Kinzie St. will go Polynesian--for a couple of hours, anyway--complete with Tahitian dances, hula dancing and a Samoan fire knife dance. Bartenders in Hawaiian shirts and leis will offer mai tais, and the lunch menu will be augmented with dishes such as Polynesian spare ribs and steak teriyaki.
All this is to recognize that the Harry Caray's Restaurant Group is developing a new Trader Vic's restaurant in Chicago, replacing the old Palmer House Hilton location that closed at the end of 2005. The new Trader Vic's isn't expected to open until 2007, but in the meantime, Harry Caray's will be safeguarding the tiki torch (there will be a torch-passing ceremony by Trader Vic's President and CEO Hans Richter) and Trader Vic's mai tai recipe.
The menu additions will be available for one day only, but until the new Trader Vic's opens, the signature mai tais will be available at all three Harry Caray's locations--surely the only places on Earth where one can order a mai tai and Chicken Vesuvio.
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