Ye Olde Holiday Shoppe 2016

This winter, do your holiday shopping with LSD. We’re throwing a little pop-up market with our favorite local businesses, makers, and artists.

Parson’s Chicken and Fish Chef Hunter Moore & bar manager Charlie Schott will be slinging eats and drinks all night, we’ll have Longman & Eagle sweet treats on offer, beer from Hopewell Brewing and DJs all night — plus a bunch more good cheer and festive fun.

A portion of proceeds from Land and Sea Dept.’s food and beverage sales will be donated to Christopher House’s holiday program to help ensure that the Chicago children and their families have a joyful holiday season.

Hope you can make it.

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From Good Stock #3

For the final installment of 2016’s From Good Stock supper club, Land and Sea Dept. is excited to welcome Chef Ryan Poli and beverage director Matt Poli of Nashville’s acclaimed The Catbird Seat on Saturday, December 3, at 7pm.

Ryan will be preparing a three-course, Roman-style feast, including handmade rigatoni, gnocchi, steak, tiramisu and much more. Matt will be creating a welcome cocktail for guests and has tapped Scarpetta Wine as our wine partner for the dinner. Accompanying this festive spread will be beautiful florals from Fleur and a soundtrack of funk and Italo-disco tunes.

Given The Catbird Seat’s extremely limited seating and availability, this is a rare chance to experience Chef Ryan Poli’s cooking in a family style supper cub format. Tickets are $75 and available here - they include food, beverage, and gratuity.

The Catbird Seat, which opened in 2011 as a creative incubator, is an intimate, interactive chef-run experience. With just 22 seats around an open kitchen, guests have the opportunity to watch the chefs prepare dishes for the ever-evolving tasting menu. Known for its avant-garde dishes, The Catbird Seat is a highly-sought-after reservation. Chef Ryan Poli, a Chicago native, has helmed The Catbird Seat kitchen since January 2016.  Poli’s experience ranges from some of the world’s most celebrated kitchens, including several Chicago favorites, as well as extensive travel throughout Spain, France, and Asia.

Don’t sleep on this – grab your tickets today!

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LSD at Chicago Printers Guild Publishers Fair

Since 2009 the Chicago Printers Guild (CPG) has cultivated print culture through monthly meetings of its members. This year, the CPG is holding its first annual publishers fair, happening at Elastic Arts in Logan Square on November 18 and 19. Over the course of the two days, the CPG hopes to offer a strong platform of exchange for the public to intersect with artists who “make things print.”

Lots of our favorite artists and publishers will be there (Nadine Nakanishi and Nick Butcher of Sonnenzimmer, Clay Hickson of Tan & Loose Press, Ryan Duggan of Drug Factory Press, and many more!), and Land and Sea Dept. will be on hand for drinks and refreshments both days.

Full details are here – hope to see you there.

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Hot Heels Soul Club

The Chicago Athletic Association, Land and Sea Dept., Do 312, and 1833 are excited to present HOT HEELS SOUL CLUB on November 18, 19, and 20. Stagg Court, the CAA’s historic full sized basketball court, will be transformed into a skate rink straight out of your roller disco fantasies.

Each skate session will feature music from DJs Johnny Walker, Alex White, Wayne Montana, and Stefan Ponce and food & drink from Game Room.

Full details and tickets available here.

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Plantation Rum O.F.T.D.
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At long last, Plantation O.F.T.D. is finally and officially coming to Chicago. You’ll soon be able to find it behind your favorite bars and on the shelves of your favorite stores — but before then, join two of the seven O.F.T.D. collaborators at Lost Lake for an official launch party on Wednesday, November 2!

Paul McGee and the Lost Lake team are thrilled to welcome a very, very special guest: the Indiana Jones of tiki himself, Jeff “Beachbum” Berry, of New Orlean’s Latitude 29. Jeff is the man to thank if you’ve ever had a well-balanced, traditional tiki cocktail (accompanied by a historically accurate anecdote) at a fancy cocktail bar.

Paul and Jeff were two of the seven spirits professionals that collaborated on the creation of Plantation’s new overproof multi-island rum, O.F.T.D. Along with David Wondrich (Esquire columnist and author of Imbibe), Martin Cate (Smuggler’s Cove, San Francisco), Scotty Schuder (Dirty Dick, Paris), Paul McFadyen (Trailer Happiness, London), and Plantation’s founder and master-blender Alexandre Gabriel, Paul and Jeff contributed to the creation of the smoky, baking spice-forward blend of rums from Jamaica, Guyana, and Barbados with a powerful proof (138!) that plays perfectly in traditional tiki recipes.

On Wednesday, November 2nd (4-8pm), Lost Lake will officially launch Plantation O.F.T.D. into the Chicago market with a menu of O.F.T.D. cocktails, limited edition t-shirts and buttons, and the opportunity to purchase bottles of O.F.T.D. signed by Paul and Jeff.

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Lost Lake Halloween Fun
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Lost Lake is getting ghosty not once, but twice this year – double the fun, double the rum. On Saturday, October 29, they’ll be serving up a menu of freaky tiki cocktails sure to spook ya to the bone. Then, on Halloween Proper, the bar will transform into the Bird Cage – complete with classic Miami cocktails (and maybe some feathers).

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L&E + Unison
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Longman & Eagle recently collaborated with Unison Home on a special edition quilt for our Inn’s guest rooms. The simple comfort of the bedding is a perfect match for Longman’sinteriors. Make sure you check them out during your next stay, or get your own to bring that relaxed Unison vibe home.

LSD/L&E partner Cody Hudson chatted with Unison about the collaboration, Longman, and his work.

Restaurateur Andrew Tarlow in Conversation with Ed Marszewski

On October 22 at 2pm, join Brooklyn-based restaurateur Andrew Tarlow (Diner, Marlow & Sons, Reynard, Wythe Hotel, and more) in conversation with Chicago-based entrepreneur Ed Marszewski (Maria’s Packaged Goods, Kimski, Mash Tun, Marz Community Brewing, and more) in the Chicago Athletic Association’s Drawing Room.

Largely credited with launching Brooklyn’s artisanal food movement, Tarlow has grown a restaurant empire on the simple idea that a meal can somehow be beautiful and ambitious, while also being unfussy and inviting. With this philosophy in mind, Tarlow wrote Dinner at the Long Table – a cookbook bursting with recipes for meals shared between family and friends. It’s already being heralded as one of the best cookbooks of the season.

Andrew will be joined with co-author Anna Dunn (also editor of Diner Journal, Tarlow’s quarterly culinary publication) for an afternoon of lively conversation, readings from the book, and a signing. We hope you can join us!

DINNER AT THE LONG TABLE

From Andrew Tarlow, the acclaimed owner of Brooklyn’s Diner, Marlow & Sons, Marlow & Daughters, Reynard, The Ides, Achilles Heel, She Wolf Bakery, Marlow Goods, Roman’s, and the Wythe Hotel comes this debut cookbook capturing a year’s worth of dishes meant to be shared among friends. Personal and accessible, Dinner at the Long Table brings Tarlow’s keen eye for combining design and taste to a collection of seventeen seasonal menus ranging from small gatherings to blow-out celebrations. The menus encompass memorable feasts and informal dinners and include recipes like a leisurely ragu, followed by fruit and biscotti; paella with tomato toasts, and a Catalan custard; fried calamari sandwiches and panzanella; or a lamb tajine with spiced couscous, pickled carrots, and apricots in honey.
Dinner at the Long Table includes family-style meals that have become a tradition in his home. Written with ANNA DUNN, the editor in chief of the company’s quarterly magazine Diner Journal, the cookbook is organized by occasion and punctuated with personal anecdotes and photography. Much more than just a beautiful cookbook, Dinner at the Long Table is a thematic exploration into cooking, inspiration, and creativity, with a focus on the simple yet innate human practice of preparing and enjoying food together.

ANDREW TARLOW
In 1999, ANDREW TARLOW opened his first restaurant, Diner, which serves locally sourced, New American food inside a refurbished 1927 dining car in the industrial neighborhood of South Williamsburg, in Brooklyn. Marlow & Sons, a restaurant, oyster bar, and general store soon followed next door, functioning as a cafe by day and a raw bar and restaurant by night. Other culinary ventures include Marlow & Daughters, a butcher shop specializing in locally sourced grass-fed meat; and Roman’s in Fort Greene, an Italian-inspired restaurant. In 2012, Andrew and his partners opened the Wythe Hotel and its ground floor restaurant Reynard in a turn-of-the-century factory building in Williamsburg. He most recently opened Achilles Heel, a riverside watering hole in Greenpoint. He is publisher of Diner Journal, an independent magazine featuring original art, literature, and recipes. Tarlow grew up in New York and began his career as a painter and a bartender at the Odeon. He now lives in Fort Greene with his wife, designer Kate Huling, and their four children.

Jens Lekman Storytelling
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Land and Sea Dept. and the Chicago Athletic Association are excited to welcome Jens Lekman to the hotel’s storytelling series. Jens will be joining Kevin Warwick (The Reader, AV Club) for a fireside chat in the Drawing Room on Thursday, November 3 (following his sold out show at Lincoln Hall on the 2nd). Come by to hear them chat about Jens’ (super) limited US tour, old favorites, his wide-spanning career, and more.

Seating is limited and on a first come, first served basis – we hope you can join us.

Jens Lekman, born and reared in Gothenburg, Sweden, is a songwriter, adventurer and retired bingo hall employee. Traveling our globe as a wide-open receptor of all it has to offer, Lekman repurposes for his own oeuvre the world’s great, lost pop hooks of past and present. He breathes into them his droll senses of humor, romance and melody and gives them newfound buoyancy. Since his 2004 trifecta of EPs (Maples Leaves, Rocky Dennis in Heaven, You Are the Light) and right on through his acclaimed 2007 full-length, Night Falls Over Kortedala and 2012′s touchingly personal I Know What Love Isn’t, Lekman has made hopeless romantics of us all. In a musical language that has roots in the work of Arthur Russell, The Magnetic Fields, Calvin Johnson and Modern Lovers, Lekman’s songs serve as a reminder to look closer at the world around us, to appreciate the beauty when it’s both in and out of context; at its most heartbreaking, its most loving, and its most absurd.

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FROM GOOD STOCK no. 2

From Good Stock: Dinner at the Long Table with Andrew Tarlow, Anna Dunn, and Ken Wiss
October 21, 2016 @ 7pm

Tickets are now available: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1340605

For the second installment of From Good Stock 2016, we’re excited to welcome author and restaurateur Andrew Tarlow. Largely credited with launching Brooklyn’s artisanal food movement, Tarlow has grown a restaurant empire on the simple idea that a meal can somehow be beautiful and ambitious, while also being unfussy and inviting. With this philosophy in mind, Tarlow wrote Dinner at the Long Table – a cookbook bursting with recipes for meals shared between family and friends.

Andrew, his co-author Anna Dunn (editor in chief of Diner Journal, the group’s quarterly publication), and Chef Ken Wiss of Diner and Marlow & Sons will be joining us on Friday, October 21, at 7pm. They’ll be preparing a three-course, family style feast with recipes from Dinner at the Long Table, creating a kind of extra large dinner party in our studio space, complete with music, art, and plenty of wine (and a few very long tables).Tickets include both food and drink – we hope you can join us.

DINNER AT THE LONG TABLE
From Andrew Tarlow, the acclaimed owner of Brooklyn’s Diner, Marlow & Sons, Marlow & Daughters, Reynard, The Ides, Achilles Heel, She Wolf Bakery, Marlow Goods, Roman’s, and the Wythe Hotel comes this debut cookbook capturing a year’s worth of dishes meant to be shared among friends. Personal and accessible, Dinner at the Long Table brings Tarlow’s keen eye for combining design and taste to a collection of seventeen seasonal menus ranging from small gatherings to blow-out celebrations. The menus encompass memorable feasts and informal dinners and include recipes like a leisurely ragu, followed by fruit and biscotti; paella with tomato toasts, and a Catalan custard; fried calamari sandwiches and panzanella; or a lamb tajine with spiced couscous, pickled carrots, and apricots in honey.

Dinner at the Long Table includes family-style meals that have become a tradition in his home. Written with ANNA DUNN, the editor in chief of the company’s quarterly magazine Diner Journal, the cookbook is organized by occasion and punctuated with personal anecdotes and photography. Much more than just a beautiful cookbook, Dinner at the Long Table is a thematic exploration into cooking, inspiration, and creativity, with a focus on the simple yet innate human practice of preparing and enjoying food together.

Peter Skvara @ L&E

Longman & Eagle is excited to announce “As the Crow Flies,” an installation from Chicago-based artist Peter Skvara which will be on display at the restaurant this fall.  Join us at Longman at 9pm on September 20 for a reception celebrating Peter’s work.

Aesop Now @ L&E

We’re happy to share that Longman & Eagle has partnered with Aesop to stock the Inn’s guest rooms. Visitors to the city who stay with us will now be treated to the Australian skincare line’s collection of shampoos, conditioners, balms, hand soaps, and body cleansers. More incentive to take a little trip, L&E style.

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What’s Happening? Longman & Eagle’s Annual Block Party

Longman & Eagle’s What’s Happening Block Party is back for another Labor Day weekend celebration on Sunday, September 4 from noon – 10pm.

The annual ‘thanks’ to the neighborhood is free and will be setting up right outside of Longman, on Schubert between Kedzie and Troy. This year’s celebration will feature a special street food menu from Chef Matt Kerney (Elotes! Tacos! Wild Boar Sloppy Joe Nachos! Sausages!), refreshing cocktails on tap, and plenty of beer. The party will also have tunes all day, including a set from Windy City Soul Club (6-10pm) to close out the night.

See you there!

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Milk Room

Milk Room is included in the top 50 finalists for Playboy’s “Best Bars 2016.” We’re in some good company, both nationally and locally – thanks, Playboy!

They’re narrowing down the list to the top 10 over the next week. You can vote for Milk Room here, if you like Paul McGee’s menu of cocktails using rare spirits as much as they (and we) do. Voting concludes August 31.

Thanks and cheers.

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Franklin Barbecue

Thanks so much to everyone who joined us for the Franklin Barbecue events over the 4th of July weekend earlier this month – we hope you had as much fun (and had as many full & happy bellies) as we did.

Big thanks to Aaron and the crew for bringing the barbecue and good times, and to Parson’s Chef Hunter Moore and bar manager Charlie Schott for helping out with delicious sides and slushies – and Old StyleLone Star, and Larceny Bourbon for keeping the good times rolling.

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Tropical Vibes #2: Meet The Cates! Smuggler’s Cove Finds Lost Lake

On Tuesday, September 6th, authors Martin Cate and Rebecca Cate will bring their brand new book, Smuggler’s Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult of Tiki, to Lost Lake!

Martin and Rebecca Cate are the founders and owners of Smuggler’s Cove,the most acclaimed tiki bar of the modern era and the newly minted winners of Tales of the Cocktail’s Spirited Award for Best American Cocktail Bar! WithSmuggler’s Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult of Tiki, the Cates take their readers on a colorful journey into the lore and legend of tiki: its birth as an escapist fantasy for Depression-era Americans; how exotic cocktails were invented, stolen, and re-invented; Hollywood starlets and scandals; and tiki’s modern-day revival.

Each ticket includes a copy of Smuggler’s Cove: Exotic Cocktails, Rum, and the Cult of Tiki to have autographed by Martin and Rebecca Cate, a special commemorative glass, and an exotic cocktail from the book!

Get your tickets here!

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FROM GOOD STOCK 2016: Chef Andy Ricker Of POK POK
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Land and Sea Dept. is pleased to announce that Chef Andy Ricker of the Pok Pok empire will be kicking off the third season of From Good Stock, our annual fall supper club series.

Andy will be joining us for two dinners at LSD’s Garfield Park studio space, both happening on Friday, September 30 – the first at 6pm, and the second at 9:30pm. He’ll be cooking up a three course Tai Yai / Shan meal from the North of Thailand, featuring Pok Pok favorites.

LSD beverage director Paul McGee will be creating beverage pairings for the evening featuring Pok Pok’s line of drinking vinegars and Letherbee Gin, as well as beers from Marz Community Brewing and Pok Pok’s Som soda (and maybe even some Thai jelly beers!). 

DJ Logan Bay will be providing a soundtrack of Thai jams.

Tickets are $100 for this intimate chance to enjoy Pok Pok’s acclaimed northern Thai cuisine in Chicago, including food and beverage. 

Tickets will go on sale THIS FRIDAY, September 16, at NOON CENTRAL TIME, via the links below.

If you recall this summer’s Franklin Barbecue events, you’ll remember that tickets for these pop-ups tend to go quickly (very, very quickly), so don’t sleep on it — set your alarms and clear your Friday lunch hour. These tickets won’t last long, and once they’re gone, they’re gone.

From Good Stock 2016 ft. Chef Andy Ricker of Pok Pok

September 30

6:00pm: TICKETS

9:30pm: TICKETS

Conceived by LSD executive director Elana Green, From Good Stock invites talented chefs to create unique menus based on personal passions and seasonal whims, coupled with our penchant for art, design and music. Past collaborators have included Chef Katrina Zito of St. Anselm and Chef Alexandra Manley of Josephine House – stay tuned for the complete 2016 lineup. 

¿Qué bola, NOLA?

Don your daisy dukes and a Daisy de Santiago, float in the pool while splashin’ in a daiquiri, cool your coconuts on a Tic Tac Taxi, sip a Mojito the Sloppy Joe’s way — that’s the way Lost Lake and The 86 Co. throw a pool party!

During this year’s Tales of the Cocktail, our BFFs from The 86 Co.’s Caña Brava Rum invited us to hang with them at the spankin’ new Ace Hotel New Orleans! We brought a crew down to the cutest rooftop pool in Crescent City and mixed up some Lost Lake favorites and a few classic Cuban recipes, too.

Photos by the fantastic Angelina Melody. Follow her on Instagram! and check out more photos on the Lost lake Blog

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