{"id":9336,"date":"2013-06-30T17:58:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T00:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/burgersdogspizza.com\/?p=9336"},"modified":"2013-06-30T17:58:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-01T00:58:54","slug":"niles-il-white-eagle-restaurant-banquets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=9336","title":{"rendered":"Niles, IL &#8211;  White Eagle Restaurant and Banquets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The White Eagle has been the go to banquet center in Near NW Chicago for over 50 years. They can accomodate groupss as small as 6 or as large as 1500. When we were there in their restaurant today, there were four events going on somewhere else in the massive hall.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whiteeaglebanquets.com\/rest.pdf\">menu<\/a> is Polish, as the location, on Milwaukee Avenue, is just a short jog up from the Polish center of Chicago. Chicago is the largest Polish population concentration in the world, after Warsaw.<\/p>\n<p>The best deal, for two or more people, is the &#8220;Host Family Style Dinner&#8221;, at $10.50 per, includes soup or salad, bread basket, two types of pierogies, noodles, mashed potatoes, and three entrees. \u00a0On the latter, we opted for sausage\/kraut, chicken, and goulash. \u00a0The server goofed and brought us brisket in gravy instead of the sausage, but when it was pointed out, quickly brought the sausage (and left the brisket!).<\/p>\n<p>These very ample servings, and while there is a &#8220;no seconds&#8221; policy, you are able to take home the leftovers, and I&#8217;m sure we have enough for another two meals.<\/p>\n<p>The taste, quality was top-notch. \u00a0Certainly not what you would expect from a banquet type facility. \u00a0 For a couple bucks more, you can add a soup or salad (whatever you didn&#8217;t opt for on the previous menu, and dessert).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/r\/2\/864865\/restaurant\/Chicago\/White-Eagle-Niles\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none; padding: 0px; width: 200px; height: 146px;\" alt=\"White Eagle on Urbanspoon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.urbanspoon.com\/b\/link\/864865\/biglink.gif\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The White Eagle has been the go to banquet center in Near NW Chicago for over 50 years. They can accomodate groupss as small as 6 or as large as 1500. When we were there in their restaurant today, there were four events going on somewhere else in the massive hall. The menu is Polish,&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=9336\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Niles, IL &#8211;  White Eagle Restaurant and Banquets<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16,34,35,26],"tags":[949,3122],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}