Though breaking bread brings friends together, it tears bread apart. Savor disassembling loaves with today's Groupon: for $5, you get $10 worth of baked goods, sandwiches, and invigorating beverages from Red Hen Bread at its Wicker Park, Lakeview, or Oak Park location.
Red Hen painstakingly selects the freshest and finest ingredients for its loaves, then bakes them with delicate, hand-tailored production techniques. Because all the yeasty entities are created daily in an enormous oven shaped like George Lopez's head, prices and availability vary. Past baked delights include prosciutto and asiago croissants ($3.50), velvet ciabatta ($4.80), olive rosemary bread ($6), the sweet-tooth satiating chocolate bomb cookie ($2.60), and an armada of other bagels, buns, rolls, and bollos. Tackle heartier hungers with soups du jour and sandwiches ($5.95–$7.95) including the cranberry chicken salad, dotted with walnuts and celery. Before the inevitable post-bread nap halts your afternoon ice-sculpting plans, perk up with beverages made with Caffe Umbria coffee and high-quality espresso.
Reviews
More than 90 Yelpers give Red Hen Bread’s Wicker Park location a four-star average, and 79% of Urbanspooners recommend it:
- this place is delicious! the bread is great and the pastries are delectable! – hilary d., Yelp
- I ordered the Chicken Salad Sandwich on multi-grain bread and it was delicious! – Patty S., Yelp
Groupon Says
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This year, don't pour your excess dollars into get-rich-quick schemes such as savings accounts or wishing wells. Instead, donate extra dough to a worthy cause. Here's a guide:
Pick the Right Charity: Donate to an organization that will put your money to good use, such as curing laziness or reversing adult-onset infancy. Make sure the donation is helping those in need and not putting more millions into the gold-lined pockets of 24-karat linen producers.
HELPING HAND: Heaving a bottle filled with coins into the ocean does not count as charity.
Donate Your Time: If time is money, then clocks are banks, making a donation of time essential to limiting the growing power of federal clocks. Do your part by volunteering to stuff envelopes, but remember, you will need to provide your own handfuls of soup to stuff them.
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Give Just a Little: Don't call attention to yourself by donating more than $25. Instead, add value to your donation by including any unwanted gift cards or cans of pumpkin pie filling with your gift.
HELPING HAND: Charity begins at home, so go ahead and buy yourself the telescope of your dreams.
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