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These Halloween menu items at indie restaurants will haunt your dreams

Indies unveil promotions for the October celebration of costumes and spirits

Holly Petre, Assistant Digital Editor

October 24, 2019

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The Hideout, St. Louis, Missouri

Get ready for a lot of liquid nitrogen this holiday as drinks are full of billowing smoke and food is made creepy (and spicy) at independent restaurants across the country.

As a way to celebrate the holiday and bring more customers in, restaurants have unveiled creative ways to showcase their culinary skills with wicked flavor combinations and a touch of mad-scientist madness. Meant to ‘wow’ customers, these dishes are hoping to increase business around the holiday times.

Read through for inspiration.

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About the Author

Holly Petre

Assistant Digital Editor

Holly Petre is a digital editor for Nation’s Restaurant News as well as the host of NRN’s podcast, Extra Serving, and producer for Informa Restaurant and Food Group’s other three podcasts, One On One by Food Management, Off the Shelf with SN and In the Kitchen with Bret Thorn. Holly holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a concentration in Sculpture, fibers and Material Studies and Ceramics from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A native New Yorker, Holly enjoys her place on staff as the resident pop-culture expert and millennial with a sassy attitude and great sense of style.

Holly Petre’s work on Nation’s Restaurant News and Restaurant Hospitality often covers marketing and trends, either aimed-at or examined-through the millennial mindset. Holly is responsible for introducing TikTok and Twitch to NRN and RH readers as well as explaining terms like “Karen” to staff and readers alike. She also spends her time on staff trying not to make every headline a pun.

Holly Petre hasn’t spoken at any events or on panels, but she is readily available with a killer shoe wardrobe and several witty quips.

 

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