🥗 Greek food for your St. Paddy's hangover

ICYMI: BOC tickets are on sale now! [View this email in your browser]( [READER Logo]( [Food & Drink]( | March 15, 2024 In Greece, just as in Chicago, everybody is Irish on St. Patrick’s Day. In Avondale, everybody is Greek on the day after. At least that’s true this Monday, March 18, when the two Beths of Meze Table return to [Monday Night Foodball]( the Reader’s weekly chef pop-up at Ludlow Liquors.  You’ll remember we [closed down 2023]( with tzatziki, skordalia, souvlaki, stifado, and a pair of devastating sandwiches from Elizabeth Gartelos Morris and Beth Salentiny, the superduo behind Peloponnesian pop-up, caterer, and farmers’ market stalwart [Meze Table](.  This Monday, they’re on call with the cure for your Jamo- and corned beef sulfite–loaded hangxiety with a spread so bright, refreshing, and Greek it comes with your own personal chorus to sing of your great deeds.  To start, they’re small and shareable individually, but together they form a meze colossus for which you can mix and match among coffee-glazed grilled pork souvlaki with skordalia; lemon-garlic chicken souvlaki with tzatziki; the beef and pork meatballs in kaapa ma sauce from last December’s unbeatable sub; Gartelos Morris’s aunt’s vegan, cinnamon-simmered green beans; a village salad dressed in a 1977 Stag’s Leap cab vinaigrette that might as well go on the World Heritage List; and finally, melitzanosalata, a roasted eggplant and walnut spread that’s “just this crazy, bright, nutty, creamy, delicious insanity,” says Gartelos Morris. At the center of this feast is a house-made beef-pork-lamb gyro plate for two with all the fixings (for the plant eaters, also available as a roasted veggie version); and to finish, an orange-scented baklava cookie and tahini brownie combo.  The Beths are taking preorders for this on [Tock]( right now, but walk-ins are welcome. It all starts at 5 PM this Monday at 2959 N. California in Avondale.  Meantime, scroll down for the Meze Table 2024 farmers’ market schedule—and the remaining Foodball spring schedule at Ludlow. 2024 Meze Table Market Schedule Saturdays 61st St. Market, 9 AM–2 PM, 6100 S. Blackstone Printers Row, 9 AM–1 PM, Printers Row Park North Branch Market, alternating Saturdays in July, 6525 N. Hiawatha Sundays 95th St. Farmers Market, 8 AM–1 PM, 1827 W. 95th Thursdays Live Food at South Loop Market in Roosevelt Collection [Get yer yiayias out for Meze Table at the next Monday Night Foodball]( It doesn’t get more Greek than this heroic spread at the Reader’s weekly chef pop-up at Ludlow Liquors. by [Mike Sula]( | [Read more]( → [Best dairy-free, usually plant-based precolonial Mexican food and packaged goods pop-up]( by [Erin Toale]( | [Read more]( → [people sitting at the bar in a restaurant]( [Estereo dances to a Latin beat in Logan Square]( November 2016 | The Heisler Hospitality spot is a cafe by day, and by night a bustling bar focused on Latin American spirits. by [Julia Thiel]( | [Read more]( → [a cup of saffron ice cream on a table]( [Dough (and some batters, too): A listicle]( April 2013 | Notes on being a baker. by [Sam Worley]( | [Read more]( → [$20 EARLY BIRD TICKETS ARE ON SALE NOW!]( Get the latest issue of the Chicago Reader Thursday, March 7, 2024 [READ ONLINE: VOL. 53, NO. 11]( [VIEW/DOWNLOAD ISSUE (PDF)]( [Become a member of the Chicago Reader.]( [Facebook icon]( [Instagram icon]( [Twitter icon]( [Website icon]( [YouTube icon]( [LinkedIn icon]( [Logo] You received this email because you signed up for newsletters from the Chicago Reader. Want fewer emails from us? [Click here to choose what you want us to send you](. Or, [unsubscribe from all Reader emails](. We’ll miss you! [Sign up for emails from the Chicago Reader]( | [Forward this e-mail to a friend]( © 2024 Chicago Reader. All rights reserved. Chicago Reader, 2930 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 102, Chicago, IL 60616