Hot on the heels of its successful “Soup and Bread” series conceived by bartender/local food writer Martha Bayne, the Hideout is launching a new weekly meet-and-eat event to fill your Wednesday dance card. Veggie bingo is not, contrary to where your imagination is heading, a typical game of bingo in which rounds of zucchini and cukes replace those squishy ink blotters to mark off each step toward victory. In fact, it is a traditional bingo game, but with farmers’ market-approved prizes ranging from jars of locally produced honey to a box of produce courtesy of Irv and Shelly’s Fresh Picks. Bingo cards go for a buck apiece, with all proceeds benefiting NeighborSpace, a local community garden organization. Also, hot dogs and Tofu Pups will be coming off the grill hot and free, and heroes of the local indie world will be standing in for the traditional Elks Lodge grand poobahs as bingo callers each week. Lawrence Peters kicks off next Wednesday’s inaugural event. Check the Soup and Bread blog for details of who will be announcing your winning “B9″ from week to week.

Wednesdays 6–8pm, July 8 through September 9 (1354 W Wabansia Ave, 773-227-4433).