Coffee Break
The story of illy begins in Trieste…
The Watcher
Documenting Good Taste
April 18, 2013
April 18, 2013
Gantoli Cycling Accoutrements
Other colors available in the debut collection.
April 16, 2013
Logan Square Dominates at The 2013 Time Out Chicago Eat Out Awards
Logan Square in one picture; Fat Rice and Scofflaw dominated for Best New Restaurant and Best New Bar respectively, while Bang Bang Pie Shop took Best New Sweets Shop and Revolution Brewing for Best Chicago Microbrewery. #winning.
April 15, 2013
English Breakfast
Treat yo’ self. The English Breakfast at Au Cheval comes correct.
April 8, 2013
Bloody Mary and Snit
The Snit is strictly a mid-western thing that originated in Minnesota, where a small portion of beer is served with a Bloody Mary. The Rhinelander shorty is a perfect compliment to the PQM version made with Tito’s Vodka.
April 8, 2013
Smoked Oyster
Encapsulated on top of burning wood chips at Ruxbin.
April 2, 2013
The Shoemaker
The Shoemaker is a film about Frank Catalfumo: a 91-year-old shoemaker and repairer who’s lived in Brooklyn his entire life. Catalfumo opened his shoe shop upon return from World War II in 1945, and despite his age still works there five days a week.
(c/o Dustin Cohen)
April 1, 2013
Billy Sunday
After a short baseball career with the Chicago White Stockings, Billy Sunday became known to be the most celebrated and influential American evangelist during the first two decades of the 20th century. His preachings in support of prohibition likely played a significant role in the adoption of the Eighteenth Amendment in 1919.
Ironic. Today, Billy Sunday is a name for what’s becoming to be one of the best new bars in Chicago (and some would say in America) after just two months of open doors in the Logan Square neighborhood. Patrick, the man who “gets thing’s done around here”, describes it to be a beverage bar rather than a cocktail lounge for its extensive program (think house-made tonic water), led by mixologist Alex Bachman … and by whoever hand-chiseled the ice in my game-changing Old Fashioned.
The Armagnac-based Son of The Crusta.
March 31, 2013
Good Candle
Because it smells good and burns clean.
