February 25 – March 25

The Chicago Athletic Association hotel, The Field Museum, Johalla Projects and Land and Sea Dept. are excited to announce the opening of The Backroom – a pop-up bar experience opening on Saturday, February 25, in the hotel’s ground floor Tank space (formerly the Chicago Athletic Association’s pool). The bar will be open on Friday and Saturday nights from 5pm – midnight through March 25.

Following last summer’s Cherry Circle Yacht Club pop-up bar, The Backroom will celebrate Specimens: Unlocking the Secrets of Life, an upcoming special exhibition taking a deep dive into The Field Museum’s vast collections, opening March 10. The pop-up, designed by Chicago-based art gallery Johalla Projects and operated by Land and Sea Dept., will feature actual specimens from the Field’s huge collection, available to guests to explore for the first time off museum grounds.

The Backroom will feature interactive programming with Field Museum professionals in the space each night on a variety of topics, ranging from space to taxidermy and more (full schedule below). All events will be free, and will give guests the rare opportunity to chat in person with leading experts in the fields of botany, zoology, geology, history, and more, all while enjoying cocktails from LSD beverage director Paul McGee. The bar will also offer late night programming until midnight following each workshop, like DJs, trivia, karaoke, and more – stay tuned for more details.

Saturday, February 25
7-10pm: Opening Party with DJ set from Elliot Bergman of Wild Belle

Friday, March 3
6pm: Dig Your Own Dinosaur with Akiko Shinya
8pm: Dino Trivia Night!

Saturday, March 4
6pm: Glowing Rocks with Jim Holstein
8pm: Glitter Guts photobooth with custom backdrop by Stephen Eichhorn

Friday, March 10
6pm: Plant Pressing with Anna Balla
8pm: Bitters making workshop with Wetherby’s Bitters

Saturday, March 11
6pm: Mushroom Show & Tell with Patrick Leacock
8pm: Psych Rock DJ set from Adam Scott

Friday, March 17
6pm: Butterfly Pinning with Crystal Maier
8pm: Gutter Butter (Logan Bay & Ben Fasman) DJ Set

Saturday, March 18
6pm: Taxidermy Night with Ben Marks and Kayleigh Kueffner

Friday, March 24
6pm: Scientists on Screen with Greg Mercer
8pm: Lumpen Radio‘s Green Screen Karaoke

Saturday, March 25
6pm: Assembling Fish Skeletons with Caleb McMahan
8pm: Closing Party

Longman & Eagle has got one for the lovers this year, with a five course dinner from chef de cuisine Joshua Mutchnick. This dinner is available in three seatings on February 14 (5:30, 7:30, and 9:30) and will also offer option whiskey and wine pairings. Email info@longmanandeagle.com to reserve your table.

1st: Scallop Crudo, Rose, Pistachio, Meyer Lemon, Yuzukoshō
2nd: Foie Gras, Cherry, White Pepper, Bitter Chocolate
Intermezzo: Beef Heart Puttanesca
3rd: Oyster Rockefeller, Ham, Horseradish
4th: Duck for two; Breast, Confit, Burnt Orange, Foie Emulsion, Sunchoke
5th: Chocolate Almond Pudding Cake, Coconut Chai Ice Cream, Candied Almond, Cardamom

February is a rough month. The promise of spring is real, but the cold, gray days can feel inescapable.

Lighten your metaphysical load with a little getaway to Longman & Eagle. Cuddle up in our beds (with custom Unison Home bedding, no less), gorge yourself on our mini-bar, and warm up from the inside out with our whiskey. For the entire month of February, we’re including a two complimentary whiskey flights with each stay – one for you and one for your travel companion, or just two for you (like we said, February is a rough month). Our bartenders will hand select three pours from our L&E flight list for you to enjoy and talk you through each selection. It’s amazing what a little whiskey and R+R can do for your perspective!

Book with code STAYCATIONFEB17.

Note: This promotion applies only to new reservations. Not transferable to other goods/services.

Hot news out of Parson’s Chicken and Fish!

For the month of February, you can get Chef Hunter Moore’s Nashville-style hot chicken…in SANDWICH FORM!

After years of requests to offer the super popular hot chicken dish as a sandwich, Chef Hunter Moore will put the Parson’s Hot Sandwich on the menu for one month and one month only.

Topped with slaw, American cheese, aioli, North Star pickles, and plenty of Chef Hunter’s secret recipe hot sauce, this might be your only chance to eat this much-requested, never before available sandwich – so mark your calendars for February 1st. You don’t want to miss this.

This week, Lost Lake hit 250,000 drinks sold in two years of being open. Wow – that’s a lot of daiquiris, Tic Tac Taxis, and Banana Dolphins! Thanks to all the guests, locals and visitors alike, who contributed to that count over the last two years. See you guys at 500,000 — who’s thirsty!?

Game Room is gearing up for the Super Bowl with an afternoon of pre-game fun. Come early to grab your table for the game, and starting at 2pm, we’ll have a DJ, bags, giant sized jenga, wings and beer deals, a queso fundido special and a themed large format cocktail to fuel your fandom.

Chicago Magazine’s annual Best Bars issue just came out, and we were thrilled and surprised to see three Land and Sea spots on the list!

Lost Lake scored the number three spot, Parson’s is slated in sixth, and Milk Room came in at number 21.

Thanks, Chicago!

Headed to the Bulls game on February 16 vs. the Celtics, or the Blackhawks game on February 18 vs. Edmonton? Your favorite whiskey bar is, too! Longman & Eagle will be serving up cocktails at the United Center during those games as part of the Chicago Pours program. Come say hi and have a drink.

Milk Room will be offering a very special Valentine’s Day experience on February 14 for those looking to celebrate with an elegant evening of rare and vintage spirits. Guests will be greeted with a glass of Charles Krug Brut Reserve Champagne and oysters with mignonette, and then get their choice of two cocktails from a special menu designed by Paul McGee only available for that night, including the Right Hand Cocktail (Plantation Reunion Island 15 Year Ruby Port Cask Finished Rum, Blackadder 17 Year Guadeloupe Rum, Dolin Rouge Sweet Vermouth, 1970s Campari, Chocolate) and the Saratoga (Pierre Ferrand Ebel Cognac, 1950s Stock Maraschino, Pineapple Gomme, Charles Krug “Brut Reserve” Champagne), among many others. Guests will also be treated to a charcuterie board to accompany their drinks, along with a nightcap of Valrhona Hot Chocolate with 1970’s Fernet Branca.  This experience is available for $150 per person (including gratuity) and can be booked via Tock.

Cherry Circle Room will be offering a menu of a la carte special items from executive chef Pete Coenen starting Saturday, February 11, and into Valentine’s Day proper, including sea scallops with rose and citrus ($17), roasted monkfish with coffee and carrots ($34), and, of course, dessert – chocolate mousse with cherry and almond ($12). Paul McGee will also be offering the Rose Petal cocktail (Gin, Raspberry, Lemon, Egg White) for $12 all weekend long.

Game Room is bringing Crew Love back for a second year for another night of partying with your buds. On Saturday, February 11, we’ll have a DJ bringing the tunes on the bocce court dance floor and Glitter Guts will have your group photo covered (sponsored by Fernet Branca). On the food and drinks side, Game Room will offer a brownie sundae that’s big enough to share (a giant sized brownie topped with six scoops of chocolate, peanut butter, and vanilla ice cream + chocolate sauce, peanuts and more for $20), Boozy Root Beer Float Shots (vanilla ice cream topped with root beer and fernet for $6), and a large format cocktail from Paul McGee to split with your table (Jamaican rum, California brandy, ruby port, Curacao, black tea, lemon – serves 4-6 for $45, also available in a single size for $12).

Longman & Eagle has got one for the lovers this year, with a five course dinner from chef de cuisine Joshua Mutchnick. This dinner is available in three seatings on February 14 (5:30, 7:30, and 9:30) and will also offer option whiskey and wine pairings. Email info@longmanandeagle.com to reserve your table.

And finally, Parson’s Chicken and Fish has all you single homies covered. Chef Hunter Moore will be serving up a triple cheeseburger with all the fixins (affectionately known as The Juicy Loser), and they’ll have the antidote to love song overload in the form of Bummer Karaoke, going in the pool house from 9p ’til midnight.

Back in March of last year, Lost Lake’s kitchen had a pretty bad electrical fire. The Chicago Fire Department raced to our rescue, contained the blaze, and made sure no one was hurt — but smoke damage had us closed for nearly a month. In the interim, our bar community rallied around the Lost Lake crew, generously hosting us for pop-ups that put cash in our tip-based bartenders’ pockets.

Each pop-up was themed, and one of those themes was “SHIFT-EASE”. The idea was that in order to ease the pain of lost shifts, we’d serve a menu of our favorite “shifties” — the cocktails we make ourselves as we breakdown the bar at the end of a long shift. To make sure it’s an authentic shifty, we pumped in our breakin-down-the-bar soundtrack (hint: it’s Champagne Papi).

Now that we’re looking forward to reconstructing our kitchen and dreaming up big things for 2017, we’re gonna turn SHIFT-EASE into a monthly charitable party. On the fourth Tuesday of every month, from 9pm-2am, we’ll be serving our favorite shifty cocktails in the name of that month’s good cause.

For the first installment on January 24th, we’re inviting the firefighters that extinguished the blaze, and donating $1 from every Damoiseau daiquiri sold to CFD Engine 106’s charity of choice: Ignite the Spirit. We’ll also be donating $5 of every Corn N’ Oil sold to Chicago nonprofit Embarc in Jacob Johnson’s honor — a bright, young Chicagoan who recently passed.

Menu:
Damoiseau Daiquiri – Damoiseau Virgin Cane Rhum Agricole, Lime, Sugar ($8)
Classic (shaken and served up)
Party Girl Style (served with crushed ice)
Party Boy Dump ‘em Out (served with ‘dirty’ ice)

Corn N’ Oil – Clement Select Barrel Rhum Agricole, Blackstrap Rum, Falernum, Lime ($10)

Beverage-focused magazine Imbibe took an in-depth look at Milk Room, our eight seat microbar serving rare and vintage spirits in the Chicago Athletic Association hotel. Come have a look for yourself one of these days.

Reward yourself for getting trough the holidays with a little Chicago staycation at Longman & Eagle. You deserve some R&R.

If you book any room during the entire first month of 2017, you’ll also get:

Two free movie passes to the nearby Logan Theater
A $10 gift card to tropical tiki bar Lost Lake (also a quick walk from L&E)
2 for 1 admission to any January show at the Empty Bottle
2 in-room complimentary PBRs and 2 whiskey shot tokens to cap off your night
A coupon for two complimentary donuts from the OSB Donut Shop

Use promo code STAYCATIONJAN17 to redeem - see you soon.

Some restrictions apply. Donut Shop is open on Saturdays & Sundays only; coupon can be used at a later date. Empty Bottle 2 for 1 admission valid through the month of January 2017. Logan Theater passes cannot be used after 6pm on Saturday.

Come through the Game Room at the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel for a New Year’s Eve House Party—and you don’t even have to clean up!

We’ve got a special large format punch by Paul McGee, mini bottles of Moet Chandon, Hopewell beer, fried food galore, and plenty of time to finish out 2016 with a shuffleboard win. We'll have DJs all night playing a sweet soundtrack of 90s hip hop and R&B, and the bocce court will transform into your dance floor to showcase all your moves.

Tables are available to book for $95 per person and are available here:

Tickets include:

• Reserved seating for you and your party all evening
• A large format cocktail for your group
• A growler of Hopewell Brewing’s custom Game Room beer
• A bucket of mini Moets for midnight toast (1 per person)
• A platter of Game Room’s creative takes on classic party snacks (this time without the freezer burn): Mozzarella sticks, chicken wings, jalapeño poppers, chips & dips, sliders
• Midnight munchie platter of cookies

If you're not worried about grabbing a table, the party is also open to the public on a first come, first served basis. We'll have Paul's special punch available on special by the pouch (Capri Sun-style!), and the party food available to order a la carte.

The full Game Room food & drink menus will be available all night. Guests are welcome to purchase additional items for the entirity of the event.

If your party size differs from our available options, please email events@landandseadept.com.

Longman & Eagle is bringing their much-loved New Year's Eve dinner back! The Michelin-starred neighborhood favorite is offering three New Year's Eve seatings this year at 5:30pm, 8pm, and 10pm. The first two seatings will feature a five-course menu for $95 per person, and the final will feature an eight-course dinner with a midnight champagne toast for $125 per person. Optional whiskey and wine pairings will be available for each seating.

For reservations, email info@longmanandeagle.com.

Parson’s Chicken and Fish is helping us keep that holiday spirit alive even after the New Year hits. Now through Valentine’s Day, Parson’s will be home to a donation bin for the Greater Chicago Food Depository. For every two cans of (non-expired, edible, good) food you bring in, you get a can of Modelo on the house.

In particular, they’re looking for peanut butter and a variety of canned items: Beans, chili, soup, stew, fruit, fish and vegetables.

You can even participate online without leaving your house! But…you should probably come have a beer at Parson’s. Just swing by the grocery on your way.

Chicago’s Airbnb hosts put together a guide of the best things to do in the city, and we’re happy to see that some of our spots are among them. In the top 40 things to do in the city, Longman & Eagle, Parson’s Chicken and Fish, and Lost Lake all made the list, with Parson’s and Longman ranking in the top ten. Thanks, Airbnb! We like you, too.

Cherry Circle Room is doing it up this New Year’s Eve with a special surf ’n turf menu from Chef Pete Coenen. The New Year’s Eve menu will be available in addition to CCR’s full dinner menu, and features King Crab Ravioli, Pan Seared Scallops with Foie Gras, Poached Lobster and Dry Aged Ribeye, and a dessert of white chocolate panna cotta.

The special menu is available to order as a four course tasting menu ($125 per person) – but all dishes are also available to order as a la carte specials. Wine director Andrew Algren will have a special wine pairing available to ring in 2017 as well.

Make your reservations now via OpenTable.

Come through the Game Room at the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel for a New Year’s Eve House Party—and you don’t even have to clean up!

We’ve got a special large format punch by Paul McGee, mini bottles of Moet Chandon, Hopewell beer, fried food galore, and plenty of time to finish out 2016 with a shuffleboard win. We’ll have DJs all night playing a sweet soundtrack of 90s hip hop and R&B, and the bocce court will transform into your dance floor to showcase all your moves.

Tables are available to book for $95 per person and are available here:

Tickets include:

• Reserved seating for you and your party all evening
• A large format cocktail for your group
• A growler of Hopewell Brewing’s custom Game Room beer
• A bucket of mini Moets for midnight toast (1 per person)
• A platter of Game Room’s creative takes on classic party snacks (this time without the freezer burn): Mozzarella sticks, chicken wings, jalapeño poppers, chips & dips, sliders
• Midnight munchie platter of cookies

If you’re not worried about grabbing a table, the party is also open to the public on a first come, first served basis. We’ll have Paul’s special punch available on special by the pouch (Capri Sun-style!), and the party food available to order a la carte.

The full Game Room food & drink menus will be available all night. Guests are welcome to purchase additional items for the entirity of the event.

If your party size differs from our available options, please email events@landandseadept.com.

Paul McGee has dreamed up a very special New Year’s Eve experience in Milk Room, our eight seat microbar in the Chicago Athletic Association specializing in very rare and vintage spirits. Guests will be able to choose two cocktails from either a special champagne focused menu or an American whiskey focused menu, in addition to a welcome amuse and a send-off glass of egg nog made with 1908 Blandy’s Bual Madeira.Executive Chef Pete Coenen has also created an assortment of elegant shared bites to accompany the drinks, including Kumamoto oysters and a pate, cheese, and charcuterie plate.

Tickets for this experience are $250 per person – view the full cocktail menu below and book your reservations here.

MENU (CHAMPAGNE SIDE) 

AMUSE

“Adonis”
Maestro Sierra Palo Cortado Sherry, Cocchi di Torino Sweet Vermouth, Orange Bitters

 CHAMPAGNE COCKTAILS (choice of 2)

“Champagne Padre”
1970s Courvoisier Napoleon Cognac, 1970s Yellow Chartreuse, Krug “Grand Cuvee” Brut

“Champagne Cobbler”
Krug “Grand Cuvee” Brut, PM Spirits Pineau de Charentes, Citrus, Berries

“Alfonso Cocktail”
Byrrh Quinquina, 1940s Secrestat Bitters, Krug “Grand Cuvee” Brut

“Saratoga Cocktail”
Pierre Ferrand “Ebel” Cognac, 1950s Luxardo Maraschino, Pineapple, Krug “Grand Cuvee” Brut

“Le Perroquet”
1960s Beefeater Gin, 1962 Campari, Orange, Krug “Grand Cuvee” Brut

 SEND OFF

“Baltimore Egg Nog”
1908 Blandy’s BoalMadeira, Pierre Ferrand “Ebel” Cognac, Whole Egg, Spices (mignardises)

MENU (WHISKEY SIDE)

AMUSE

“Adonis”
Maestro Sierra Palo Cortado Sherry, Cocchi di Torino Sweet Vermouth, Orange Bitters

WHISK(E)Y COCKTAILS (choice of 2)

“Brooklyn”
Willett XCF Rye, Dolin Dry Vermouth, 1940s Amer Picon, 1950s Luxardo Maraschino

“Monte Carlo”
Four Roses “Milk Room Cask” Bourbon, 1950s Benedictine, Abbott’s Bitters

“King Cole”
Wild Turkey Kentucky Spirit “CCR Cask” Bourbon, 1970s Fernet Branca, Demerara

“Affinity”
A Dewar Rattray “Peatside” Scotch, La Garrocha Amontillado Sherry, 1960s Cynar

“Tipperary”
A Dewar Rattray “Cooley” Irish, Cocchi di Torino Vermouth, 1974 Chartreuse VEP

SEND OFF

“Baltimore Egg Nog”
1908 Blandy’s Boal Madeira, Pierre Ferrand “Ebel” Cognac, Whole Egg, Spices

This December, from the 1st ‘til New Year’s Eve, Lost Lake will transform into a tropical winter wonderland and change the sign on the door to ippin’ Santa’s Surf ack. Miles of pink tinsel, thousands of twinkling lights, and hundreds of glittering snowflakes will decorate the urf hack.

Lost Lake’s Paul McGee, Jeff “Beachbum” Berry and Brad Smith of Latitude 29 in New Orleans, and Samuel Gauthier of Boilermaker in New York City all put their Santa hats together and collaborated on a menu of festive cocktails.

Sippin’ Santa’s Surf Shack will be open seven days a week, from 4pm-2am — 3am on Saturdays.