The Daily Illini - Even though Taste of Chicago — the iconic Chicago food festival showcasing some of the best food from all around the city — already happened this summer, that doesn’t mean Lollapalooza couldn’t do its own part in promoting some of the Windy City’s culinary institutions.
From Oak Park, Chicago, The Original Rainbow Cone sliced festivalgoers the iconic multicolored ice-cream cone, a tower of orange sherbet, pistachio, palmer house, strawberry and chocolate ice cream that teetered and melted in the midday sun.
Lincoln Square’s The Budlong Hot Chicken served scorching hot Nashville-style fried chicken that stained wrappers and fingers red. Tacotlan, a Mexican restaurant from Chicago’s Hermosa neighborhood, gave people a taste of the growing birria craze, serving meaty, crackling tacos next to little cups of broth consommé to dip it in.