• Chicago Tribune's Grand in-town Tour (9/13/95) featured Evelyn's Chicago Ethnic Grocery Tours

• Chicago Tribune's Global Takeout: Good Eating (4/24/96) was written by Evelyn and which marked the debut of the first full color version of the Tribune food pages.

• WGN TV news showed a segment as part of their Chicago Asian Week segment

• Best OF (Indian Restaurants and Snackshops) on the Cable Cooking Channel's segment on Chicago

• Food & Wine Magazine listed her unique tours in the May 1999 issue

• Cooking Light wrote about her tour in the March 2000 issue

• Chicago Reader March 22, 2002 issue, section 2 pg 38 entitled: Making the Rounds with a Grocery Guru (this article is about her work with the Chicago Tourism Bureau)

• Local Palate had an article about Evelyn written by Beth Hartzell in this local Chicago newspaper in the May-June 2002 issue entitled: City Culture -Nibbling Through the Neighborhoods

• AAA Home & Away Magazine has a wonderful 2 page article about Evelyn's Ethnic Grocery Tours written by Jack McGuire (Nov/Dec 2002 issue on pages 17a-18a) entitled: Food Tour Sampler -Multicultural delights are discovered on culinary adventures in Chicago ( this article is for some reason not shown in the table of contents)

• Chicago Tribune 2003 Good Eating Award. Evelyn has been honored with this special award for her contribution to Chicago's Food Culture with her unique and excellent tours. The photo below shows from left to right: Carol Haddix (Tribune Food Editor, Evelyn J. Thompson, Dean Richards (WGN Radio), and Amanda Puck (original host of Checks Please PBS TV show, daughter of Wolfgang Puck)
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• News release: HERE

• Washington Post Travel Section (May 30, 2004) featured the article Chicago: To Ethnic Markets We Go written by Catherine Arnold. "After a food tour of Chicago with Evelyn Thompson, it's impossible to look at an ethnic grocery in quite the same way." You can read the on-line version of the article by clicking HERE

• CenterStage (August 2004) A great review of Evelyn's Tour by Chris Benevich. Check it out by clicking HERE

• Farm Week Has a write up of the tour. To read it click HERE

• Things to do in Chicago Here's a link to a page listings for relatives and friends attending a wedding that cites Evelyn's tour. Click HERE

• Chicago's Neighborhood Sampling Tours Run by the Chicago's Dept of Tourism features Evelyn as one of their expert ethnic food guides. This is a bus tour that takes you to a number of eating places -not an ethnic grocery tour. This tour is so popular it sells out early. To find out more click HERE

• Rough Guide to Chicago Has a listing for Evelyn's Ethnic Grocery Tours. Rough Guides are available for travel, as well as music. You can find these books at any good bookstore. For their web page click HERE

• UnWrapped Food Channel's Cable TV program filmed a segment (section on grocery stores) Evelyn's Ethnic Grocery Tours. This show repeats at various times of the year so if you missed it, you may still get to see it. In case you are wondering if all this fame has given Evelyn a swollen head DONT WORRY -she is still just as friendly, down-to-earth,and funny as ever (I should know since I live with her).

• Conde Nast Traveller -Top 100: Around the World in 80 Meals (Chicago) The November 2005 issue has a very interesting,in depth article, in which Chicago compares very well on the culinary front with such great cities as, New York and San Francisco. There is also an excellent section on Evelyn's Tour (pgs. 208 & 210).
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  If you've printed this page for your hard copy you can find this page again at:
  http://www.ethnic-grocery-tours.com
  
  
  TOUR DATES & TIMES: Tours are arranged on a custom basis, so please get in touch for a particular date Most tours start in the morning or afternoon and vary from 3 1/2 to 4 hrs in length. Bring an appetite and some change so you can do some tasting at every stop! Exact schedules vary so please phone or e-mail with your preferences.
  
  
  TOUR PRICES:
  1 person tour is no longer available
  2 people for $75
  3 people for $95
  4 people for $120
  Optional Hotel pickup & drop-off: $40 additional
  
  If you have any problems imiting your mobility getting in and out of automobiles please call me to discuss options (using your car for instance).
  
  For information and rates for Groups over 4, including Large Groups, or for Food Industry Business Consulting, please contact me.
  
  If you are driving to Chicago, you will meet at Evelyn's house, and she will drive you around in her car. For a map and directions to get to Evelyn click on the link here:
  
  DIRECTIONS Map: 2010 W. Chase Ave, Chicago, IL 60645 (East Rogers Park is in Northeast Chicago, just 5 blocks south of the suburb of Evanston, IL) Chase avenue is ONE WAY going East.
  
  For additional detailed driving directions, click on the MAP Sidebar on top left or right here (MAP). Once map has appeared simply click, immediately above the map, on the underlined phrase that says: Get Directions to this location; to print the map click on the button on the left that says Print Map Of course you will need to fill in your starting address in the FROM section, the TO: should already be filled out
  
  GET IN TOUCH: Evelyn's e-mail address is
  
  evelyn@ethnic-grocery-tours.com
  
  If for some reason that does not work you may use: evelyn@computersandfood.com
  
  PHONE: 773-465-8064 (leave a message anytime) For additional information about Evelyn click on the 2 links below:
  
  Read about Evelyn's Ethnic Grocery Tours at Sally's Page
  See interesting bio info about Evelyn at Sally's Page
  
  For information about Ethnic Folk Dancing (classes, events, music etc) go to this link!

  

  

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