Gapers Blocks BBQ Bowl; Good Food Fest Tix; More

BUCKTOWN—Hit Gapers Block's first annual BBQ Bowl this Saturday afternoon between 12 and 3 at Club Lucky (1824 W. Wabansia). For $25, you get a taste from each participant, including Honky Tonk BBQ, The Piggery, Pork Shoppe and, of course, Club Lucky. Get tickets online or at the door. [EaterWire]

UNIVERSITY VILLAGE—Tickets are now on sale for Family Farmed's Good Food Festival & Conference taking place at UIC Forum March 15 to 17. Numerous chefs including Bruce Sherman (North Pond), Heather Terhune (Sable Kitchen), Mark Mendez (Vera) and Karyn Calabrese (Karyn's Raw) will be on hand doing demos. [EaterWire]

LOOP—Target on State Street, which will include a Pret a Manger, aims to open on July 29. [Crain's]

RIVER NORTH—Love meat? Fulton's introduced a meat connoisseur steak tasting flight featuring four-ounce tastes of three cuts of beef for $55. [EaterWire]

BUCKTOWN—Head to Duchamp on Feb. 8 between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. for $6 Typeset cocktails by mixologist Kris von Dopek to celebrate the launch of Chicago's Discerning Drinker's Guide to Chicago