If you haven’t heard about Moretti’s Pizza Boat, let us do the honor of filling you in -- just in time for Memorial Day weekend. We like to think of it as the ice cream truck for grown-ups -- except that a) it’s a boat b) it’s stocked with pizza, not popsicles and c) it’s roaming territory is the Chain O’Lakes, a sweet day-trip spot in the far northwest ’burbs. When you and your boating pals get hungry, put a call in to this Fox Lake pizzeria and they’ll deliver your meal, boat-side. Or, if you catch the Pizza Boat floating by, you can flag it down and snatch up a ready-made pie.
What? You don’t have a nautical uncle or trust fund-blessed buddy with a boat? Don’t sweat it -- Famous Freddie’s, a sprawling bar and barbecue house in Fox Lake, will let you use theirs. If you team up with 20 or more friends, it’s $25 per person for a 2-hour cruise with open bar, music and, thankfully, a U.S. Coast Guard-licensed captain.
And speaking of lake-side pizza, Gino’s East is setting up camp in Lake Geneva. Their lakeside outpost (100 yards from the Riveria Docks, they tell us) is slated to open June 11, just in time for the vacation season -- how predictably appropriate.
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