Big Bowl Executive Chef Marc Bernard will show off the bounty of his Rustic Road Farm on Saturday, November 10 from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the restaurant's 6 E. Cedar St., location in Chicago.  Bernard will prepare braised pork in Asian spices and offer ideas for kabocha squash side dishes. The class and tasting is complimentary but reservations are required by calling 312 640-8888. Pork (fresh cuts and naturally cured bacon and jowl bacon) from Bernard's purebred Berkshire hogs will be available for sale as well as his pasture eggs. Visit the Rustic Road Facebook page for details and prices.

Each time a dish from Executive Chef Marc Bernard's Summer Harvest menu is ordered, Big Bowl and Freebird chicken will donate $1 to a to Growing Home, an urban farming organization providing community devlopment, job training and employment, particularly to those with barriers to entering the workforce. The nonprofit's local farms, often located in blighted areas, are providing organically grown produce to Chicago Big Bowl restaurants.

Freebird is the ideal partner to support the Summer Harvest Celebration and the restaurant's mission of Building Good Food. It supplies Big Bowl with all natural chicken, humanely raised on family-owned farms with room to roam, and never given antibiotics or other drugs.

The special harvest menu features: Spicy Eggplant and Chicken wok tossed with sungold tomatoes in a spicy Sichuan sauce; Thai corn & crab soup, Thai summer corn and chicken (wok tossed with a spicy lemon sauce) and sweet corn and coconut gelato with blueberry lemon sauce. 

When you take Mom to Big Bowl for dinner on Mother's Day, she'll receive a gift from us. Moms who dine at our Big Bowl locations in Lincolnshire, Schaumburg and in Chicago (60 E Ohio) will receive a potted herb plant as a complimentary "we think you're awesome" acknowlegement. Because we're an Asian inspired restaurant, the herb plant will be cilantro or Thai basil. Moms dining at our other Chicago location (6 E. Cedar)  will receive orchids.