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When it appeared on the Upper East Side nearly two months ago, Bilao was one of those plucky restaurants that dared to open in the midst of the pandemic. But maybe its timing wasn’t so bad after all. As a waitress told me on my first visit, “We are near several hospitals fighting the virus, and lots of the people working there are Filipinos.” Bilao has two outdoor dining areas, one on the sidewalk. The curbside one sits on busy First Avenue. Bilao, meaning basket in Tagalog, is located near the corner of First Avenue and 75th Street, comprising a compact premises with a front that swings open to the street, and a very plain brick interior decorated with grain-winnowing basketry. The chef, Boji Asuncion, comes from Batangas on the island of Luzon, 100 kilometers due south of Manila. The coastal city is known for its coffee, peanut brittle, and little smoked fish called tinapa. While not particularly focused on regional specialties, Bilao’s menu provides one of the best overvie...

University of Illinois athletic director Josh Whitman speaks a press conference in 2018. Whitman is the keynote speaker at the 2020 Virtual Community Leaders Breakfast on Thursday. JOEY WAGNER, HERALD & REVIEW Matthew Flaten DECATUR — Before the University of Illinois football team kicks off its 2020 season against No. 14 Wisconsin on Friday, Illini athletic director Josh Whitman will be the keynote speaker at the virtual Community Leaders Breakfast on Thursday, Oct. 22.  The breakfast, originally scheduled for April and then rescheduled for June, is now a virtual breakfast that can be viewed at pantagraph.com at 7:30 a.m. No ticket is required for the event.  "I think it is a great opportunity with so many things happening right now, and, in my opinion, Josh is a dynamic speaker who is really motivational," said Kara Demirjian Huss, president of DCC Marketing. DCC Marketing, Archer Daniels Midland Co. and the Herald & Review are co-sp...

There's now another way to enjoy one of northwest Denver's best breakfast eateries: The Universal is open for dinner. "We've always wanted to do dinner, and this seemed like the right time," says Kourtnie Harris, who runs the Universal at 2911 West 38th Avenue with her husband, Steven Sharp. Harris explains that she and her husband have been planning to add comfort food entrees and dinner hours for quite some time, but the plan was moved up a few months because of the pandemic, since adding more sales at dinner will help offset decreased capacity during the winter. EXPAND The Universal after dark: it's now a thing. Courtesy of the Universal "We've been at about 85 percent of normal [sales], and we couldn't ask for anything better," the restaurant owner adds, "but the patio closing for winter takes away 24 seats." So the couple started serving dinner four nights a week in mid-September, staying open until 9 p.m. Wednesday ...

For most of our travels, we stay at hotels. Having worked in the hospitality industry for a hotel company, my wife and I took advantage of the employee discounts when we traveled. Disneyland. Disney World. St. Louis. Chicago. All over. Then, those jobs went away during the Great Recession of 2008. So, we were faced with finding nice hotels at affordable rates. My wife decided on one of our trips that we should stay at a bed and breakfast. What? I had become a hotel snob. I’ve stayed at some of the best Hyatts, Sheratons, Westins, Fairmonts in the world. Why would I want to crash at a hostel (my view of bed and breakfasts at the time)? Well, my wife convinced me to try a bed and breakfast. I told her I didn’t want to stay at one if it meant having to share a bathroom (again, I viewed all bed and breakfasts as hostels). We decided to try a bed and breakfast in Milwaukee. One hitch: We’d have to share a bathroom with another room. “Ugh,” I thought. Well, I checked out the place online....

Pick up 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Central, Greenwood or Island City elementary schools, La Grande. Free breakfast and lunch for anyone age 18 and younger. Fresh vegetables, seasonal fruit and 1% milk daily. OCT. 19-23 Monday: BREAKFAST: yogurt parfait with fruit and granola, canned fruit; LUNCH: turkey sandwich, tater tots, lettuce mix. Tuesday: BREAKFAST: blueberry muffin, cheese stick, apple juice; LUNCH: chicken waffle sandwich, carrots, broccoli florets. Wednesday: BREAKFAST: burrito, fruit; LUNCH: chicken and cheese quesadilla, corn, cherry tomato. Thursday: BREAKFAST: mini donut, cheese stick, orange juice; LUNCH: beef hotdog, kettle potato chips, baked beans, celery sticks. Friday: BREAKFAST: French toast sticks, canned fruit; LUNCH: crispy chicken sandwich, roasted corn, broccoli florets.

Hit street food stop Lowkey Burritos has managed to turn its famous cheesy-crusted breakfast burrito into an internet phenomenon, playing to tens of thousands of fans on Instagram while throwing sold-out weekly pop-ups in Long Beach and around Los Angeles. Next up: A weekly stop in Koreatown, with a permanent home to come next year. Lowkey owner Matt Stevanus has been on a tear since first rising to citywide prominence last year, when he was selling street burritos to Downtown workers near the Staples Center. He’s more or less been pushed off that address because of some vigilant enforcement officers and the pandemic, so now the plan is to run every Friday from a private off-street setup at the edge of Koreatown and Westlake, at 2748 W. 8th Street. Stevanus and his team are there this morning, playing tunes and griddling cheese for fans who found them on social media. Moving forward, Friday-only weekly hours at this LA location will run 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., with ongoing Long Beac...

Folks, when it quit raining after the end of July, it really quit. We ain’t had more than a sprinkle in more than 80 days — and the forecast is for more dry weather. I may never get my fall wildlife food plots planted. No need wasting the expensive seed by dusting it in. It will surely rain again sometime this fall. Speaking of the fall, after the quick little frost on Oct. 2, it got to be summer again in terms of temperatures, yet, fall is definitely showing itself. Probably half of the tree leaves have fallen — helped along with the parched soil and day after day of blow-your-hair-out-by-the-roots winds. It’s been good fall crop harvest weather. All the migrating birds have finally left, except for the buzzards. The killdeers finally headed for warmer climes. So, have the early migrating northern ducks. This morning a had a little raft of northern ducks floating around in my pond. I think they might have been ruddy ducks. The red squirrels have been super busy gnawing on the waln...

“It's going to be easier to make good choices for the rest of the day when you've had an omelette for breakfast than it will be when you've had a glazed donut,” says Suzi Fevens, a CanFitPro certified healthy eating and weight loss specialist based in Waterville, N.S. For the average person, "breaking your fast" in a nutritious way is important because it's the first time you've eaten since the previous day. Because it's that first meal, Fevens says, you want to make sure you are providing your body with a nutritious meal to provide good quality energy for hours to come. By having a healthy breakfast, you’re setting yourself up to have a better day. Ellen Greenan, a registered dietitian with Atlantic Superstore in Summerside and West Royalty, P.E.I., says a nourishing breakfast can help provide your body with the energy it needs to function and thrive throughout the day. Whether you are headed to work, school or a busy day at home, breakfast is goin...

One in five children reported that they do not eat breakfast, with the proportion of breakfast-eaters decreasing as kids age, according to the CDC. Around 82% of children and young adults ate breakfast on a given day, reported Ana Terry, MS, RD, of the CDC National Center for Health Statistics in Hyattsville, Maryland, and colleagues. Kids were less likely to eat a morning meal as they got older, with nearly 96% of children ages 2 to 5 years consuming breakfast versus 73% of those ages 12 to 19, they wrote in a NCHS Data Brief . The proportion of kids who ate breakfast increased with their family's household income, and differed among racial groups. Black and Hispanic children across all age groups were less likely to eat breakfast than their white and Asian peers. "Breakfast-eating has always been a concern," said Mary Story, PhD, RD, a professor of global health, family medicine, and community health at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. "But given the...

TribLIVE's Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. The only B&B in Leechburg is for sale. John Truett, a former Disney World executive, owns both the Old Parsonage Bed and Breakfast and the Enchanted Abbey (formerly Holy Innocents Episcopal Church) at 156 Siberian Ave. The two buildings are listed at $185,000 and are on the same lot. Truett, a Florida native, has operated the three-bedroom B&B offering Victorian hospitality to his guests for 14 years. Old Parsonage originally served as the rectory for Holy Innocents. His decision to sell involves a personal timeline. “I am planning to move out West to a hotter and drier climate,” Truett said of his decision to sell and relocate. “I said I would live here for 10 years, and it’s been 14, so I’m overdue.” Holy Innocents opened in 1889, and the rectory, currently the B&B, was constructed in 1914. It is designated as a historic landmark by the Lee...

Children’s free takeout breakfast & lunch menu Pick up 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Central, Greenwood or Island City elementary schools, La Grande. Free breakfast and lunch for anyone age 18 and younger. Fresh vegetables, seasonal fruit and 1% milk offered daily. OCT. 12-16 Monday: BREAKFAST: strawberry Pop-Tart, cheese stick, orange juice. LUNCH: Italian meatball sub, Caesar side salad, roasted cauliflower. Tuesday: BREAKFAST: turkey breakfast biscuit, fresh fruit. LUNCH: ham deli sandwich, cucumber slices, baby carrots. Wednesday: BREAKFAST: strawberry cream cheese-filled bagel, apple juice. LUNCH: beef chili, cinnamon roll, roasted broccoli, celery sticks. Thursday: BREAKFAST: biscuits and gravy, hard-boiled egg, canned fruit. LUNCH: popcorn chicken, whole-grain roll, green beans, red peppers. Friday: BREAKFAST: long John, orange juice: LUNCH: cheese pizza, peas and carrots, lettuce Romaine mix.

By Liesbeth Powers Liesbeth graduated from Baylor University with a degree in new media journalism in December 2018. She gained her newspaper experience as a staff writer and multimedia editor at her campus paper, The Baylor Lariat. Liesbeth joined the Community Impact team in August 2019, where she reports on all things Plano and Richardson, including Plano City Council and Dallas Area Rapid Transit.

This post originally appeared in the October 5, 2020 edition of The Move , a place for Eater’s editors to reveal their recommendations and pro dining tips — sometimes thoughtful, sometimes weird, but always someone’s go-to move. Subscribe now . That I didn’t think of it sooner is what angers me — especially since I’ve come so close so many times before. I can’t count how many mornings I’ve mindlessly folded a piece of toast around a strip of bacon, or piled big, fat slices of fresh summer tomatoes on a hunk of good bread. But for some reason the idea of starting my day with a combination of these things — along with a little mayo and a crunchy green or two — never hit me before. So, here’s the thing I just now figured out: The BLT is, in fact, a breakfast food. Just think about it: Toast? Unabashedly breakfast. Bacon? I’d argue it’s more suited for the morning than any other time of day. A proper English breakfast has a hunk of tomato on the side — plus, late summer tomatoes are...