Monday Night Foodball turns four this summer

Ahhhhh. . . . four year olds . . .

Known for exuberant energy, raging ids, insatiable thirsts for novelty, and pushing the button-down, plastic fantastic boundaries of polite company. Mostly toilet-trained.

Ravenous appetites too. But still a little messy.

That pretty much crystalizes the state of Monday Night Foodball , the Reader ’s weekly chef pop-up at Frank and Mary’s Tavern —which celebrates its fourth birthday this summer.

It happens the week of August 18, in fact, when the Bad Johnny’s Wood-Fired Pizza & Kitchen crew roll up with Belle, the mobile 950 degrees F Disney princess responsible for their peerless Roman-style pies.

That’s pop-up number 175 since we started in the summer of 2021 at the late, great Kedzie Inn .

175!

It’s also Foodball number three for BJ’