Free Doughnuts Tomorrow; New Beverage Director at Graham Elliot Bistro

LOOP/RIVER NORTH—Are you interested in free doughnuts? Well, there's two options tomorrow. Do-Rite is giving away a free old-fashioned doughnut to anyone that downloads the free Hailo taxi app. Firecakes is donating tomorrow's profits to the Salvation Army and giving away a free old fashioned buttermilk doughnut with each purchase. [EaterWire]

WEST LOOP—There's a new beverage director at Graham Elliot Bistro. Adam Kamin has moved over from Sprout and is working on some new cocktails. [EaterWire]

BUCKTOWN—Takashi Yagihashi is going back to his roots on Tuesday, highlighting Ambria (shuttered in 2007 after 27 years), where he started his career. His "Ambria Tribute" has seven courses for $98 (add $60 for optional wine pairings) at Takashi. [EaterWire]

LINCOLN PARK—Trotter's alum Michael Rotondo (now at Parallel 37 in San Francisco) talks with Phil Vettel about the differences between Chicago and West Coast diners. Rotondo: ""A sense of adventure definitely exists in the Bay Area, [but] in my years in Chicago I've noticed ... more openness to culinary envelope-pushing and experimentation." [Tribune]