It's time again for a little roundup of some of the nice things folks have been saying about LSD on the internet and beyond. Check it out—

ICYMI: Longman & Eagle was on "Check, Please!" You can watch the episode here.

Cherry Circle/Game/Drawing/Milk Rooms have a new Chef, Johnny Anderes! Chicago Tribune and Eater both shared the news. Next time you're at the hotel be sure to say hi!

The Infatuation did a great guide on the best soups in Chicago and include Lonesome Rose's killer new Chicken Tortilla Soup. Peep the guide here.

Eric Houser made Parson's very, very proud with his TV debut on Today in Nashville. He was making hot toddies and talking about Parson's Nashville's Holiday Pop-up that's happening Saturday 12/14. Watch the clip here. Speaking of that pop-up, Nashville Lifestyles published it on their site, here!

Our holiday pop-ups are happening in full swing now and the presses are hot! Lost Lake's Jingle Bell Square, Happy's, and Golden Teardrops all were included in guides from Eater, Condé Nast Traveller and WGN. Inside Hook also did a roundup of the best holiday themed hotels and included Happy's, that's here.

The Manual did a nice little feature on our favorite, little tiki bar Lost Lake. They said some really kind things and you can read those kind things here.

Parson's Nashville was included in Eater Nashville's hottest restaurants in Nashville map for the 5th month in a row! Read that one here.

The Reader did a great roundup of restaurants that are open on Christmas and serving up foods from around the world and they included Longman & Eagle's Chinese Christmas dinner. Check it out.

HAPPY'S: A Holiday Pop-Up Bar
Through Dec. 28 

Monday–Wednesday: 5p–10p • Thursday–Saturday: 5p–12a

Happy’s, our annual winter pop up at the Chicago Athletic Association hotel, is back!

Happy’s is an all-out explosion of all things holiday: Strong drinks, seasonal tunes, warm vibes, and as many twinkling lights as possible. This year, Happy's is both larger than ever and open for an additional three days a week (Monday - Saturday)! It also has an expanded food menu…a food counter called Hangry’s!

Hangry's offers cocktail weenies with barbecue sauce, meatballs with red sauce and garlic bread, veggie egg rolls with spicy mustard mayo, soft pretzel with cheez whiz, warm chocolate chip cookies, and occasional specials.

Get more details and a full list of programming happening in Happy's here.

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Lost Lake's Jingle Bell Square
Daily through December 31

Monday–Friday: 5p–2a • Saturday & Sunday: 2p–2a

This December, head to Jingle Bell Square, Lost Lake's month-long celebration of tropical holiday spirit. They’ll be dancin’ and prancin’ in the frosty air all the way 'til New Year's Eve with a fully-festive interior and a special menu of spiced and spirited tiki drinks decked out for the season.

Don't forget that the Lake opens at 2p on Saturdays and Sundays, and that kiddos are welcome until 4p those days!

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 Silver and Gold(...en Teardrops) 
Through New Year's Eve
Thursday–Saturday • 6p–2a

Our tiny basement bar beneath Lonesome Rose will take a break from extreme darkness and instead nod to its name, with a holiday makeover all done up in gold. Sip winter-ready cocktails in a metallic mirrored tinseltown that's equal parts glam and grit. Plus, Golden Teardrops has karaoke every Thursday night from 9p-1a, featuring $1 Hamm’s on draft.

Back in 2015, we held our very first Ye Olde Holiday Shoppe in the old pool house at Parson's Logan Square. We’re so excited to take this year’s holiday shoppe back to Parson’s for year 5! Join us at Parson's Lincoln Park location for our annual holiday pop-up market with all of our favorite local businesses, makers, and artists.

It's a full LSD celebration with Longman & Eagle, Lonesome Rose, and Parson's serving up a special menu of bites. Parson's will be providing the drinks so you can have slushies, hot toddies, and crispy cold beers while you shop.

Full vendor list below – get excited.

We always suggest bringing cash, though many vendors will also be equipped to process credit cards.

Ace High Vintage
Bird Trouble
Comerico Popular
Feeltrip Records / No Requests
Field Notes
Fleur
Foyer Shop
Good-Bye Press
LB Finds
Lori Seidemann
Marz Brewing / Lumpen
Meha Ceramics
Michael Bridges
Numero Group
Olive Branchard
Sarah  Mosk
Space Babes (CBD)
Sparrow For Everyone
Strawberry Man Vintage
Vichcraft
You're a Cookie!

More vendors to be announced!

Friday December 6, 2019
Parson's Chicken & Fish - Lincoln Park
2435 N Halsted St
FREE entry
5-10PM

Anyone else shocked that it's suddenly November? Does the thought of cooking an entire turkey and hosting your extended family sound like too much to handle? Let your LSD fam host you this year. We've got options for whatever your celebration style is, and you know we won't judge you for undoing that top button.

PARSON'S THANKSGIVING - TO GO!
Parson’s Chicken and Fish's Chicago locations will offer the much-loved Thanksgiving takeout dinner again this year. Chef Hunter Moore’s Thanksgiving Dinner for Two, To Go is available for $55, which includes one whole fried Amish chicken, two homestyle biscuits, gravy, mashed potatoes, tomato & bacon braised green beans, and creamed corn (add-ons are also available, like salad, hush puppies, and extra mashed potatoes, which really shouldn't be optional).

Get your order in by noon on Wednesday, November 27 – your feast will be available for pick up (or delivery!) from 10am – 6pm on Thanksgiving Day.

Place your orders here.

CHERRY CIRCLE ROOM
This Thanksgiving, Thursday, November 28th, Cherry Circle Room will exclusively be serving a holiday prix-fixe menu. Guests will enjoy four courses of Thanksgiving classics in Cherry Circle Room's intimate dining room, available for $90 per person. (Before tax and gratuity.) We will also be serving seasonal cocktails and offering an optional wine pairing. Guests can look forward to turkey roulade with giblet gravy, cornbread stuffing, sweet potatoes with molasses and pecans, and much, much more.

Make your reservations here, and soon! There are only a handful of open tables left. (Cherry Circle Room can also accommodate large parties; email events@lsdatcaa.com to book.)

Working in the Loop on Thanksgiving, or just want to eat a fancy dinner from the comfort of your couch? The Cherry Circle Room Thanksgiving menu will also be available to go, for pick-up only. Email joey@lsdatcaa.com for more information and to place your order. Orders are due at noon on Tuesday, November 26.

And consider Chicago Athletic Association your Thanksgiving Day playground - you can head down to our Topgolf Swing Suite to work off your turkey coma or catch the big games in Game Room, where you can challenge Grandpa to a game of pool.

LONGMAN & EAGLE
Longman's annual family style Thanksgiving dinner is back! And like years past...it is sold out. But, don't despair! You can get their famous Thanksgiving leftovers sandwich in the OSB starting at 3pm on Thanksgiving Day, plus the full OSB menu of beer, cocktails, and wine. Come take a little holiday breather (or sipper) with us.

Come join us on Thursday November 7th as Um Yeah Arts,  Land and Sea Dept., and House of Vans present "Ye Olde Destruction" a film by Thomas Campbell, as well as a live score by Dan Bitney & Theo Katsaounis.

For the last 7 years Artist - Film maker Thomas Campbell has been making a self funded skateboarding movie, mainly shot on a 16mm film -- called - Ye Olde Destruction .... with a solid grip of shredders building and skating DIY spots, some street action, pools, and other stuff. The movie is really about capturing sessions and the movement of the life and happenings in these situations. Part of the theme and vehicle that propels the film is the driving of two old cars ( one 70's Cadillac and one black Ford Station wagon) two squads travel around in these cars skating, building spots, creating different skating scenarios, sometimes skating the cars and basically wilding out in said vehicles. In some ways the movie falls into the classic genera of the car movies movie motif ( Bullitt , Mad Maxx or Brown Bunny). The Film is presented in brutal but some how dream scape - ish editing style, with the jacked frenetic scribblings of world renowned Berlin based artist - zine maker Sergej Vutuc adding his iconic script to the mix. Campbell has enlisted an A list team of lensmen to help him capture the motion picture scenarios and shreddings - French Fred, Jon Miner, Mike Manzoori and Connor Wyse among others. The film also embodies and unveils the inter web of a community, a community of out laws non the less. but a community.

go HERE to RSVP for the event.

Join us at Lula Cafe Tuesday, November 19 for In Living Color— _The Other Project_’s all-inclusive, poc-focused event highlighting and celebrating up-and-coming chefs and mixologists in Chicago. There’s a handful of LSD superstars participating: Lost Lake's dream team of Alicia Arredondo, Chef Fred Noinaj and Chef Dani Kaplan, Longman & Eagle darling Miguel DeLuna, sweet Chef Lorraine Nguyen from Cherry Circle Room, and party queen Marta Jean Evans of Parson's Chicken & Fish. Proceeds benefit Silver Fork at Center on Halsted, a culinary arts and job readiness program centered around low income members and allies of the LGBTQIA+ community dedicated to the expression of all human identities. Tickets are available here.

If summer can't last forever, at least we've got sweet orange gourds at our disposal to express our inner fall feelings. Hope we catch you at one of our -very- autumnal events this month.

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Longman & Eagle's annual Pumpkin Carving is back!

On Sunday, October 27, from noon - 5pm for some spooky fun. They'll have a limited number of complimentary pumpkins and carving kits, but feel free to BYO, too. Stay warm and full with apple doughnuts, hot cider and hot chocolate, plenty of whiskey from Jim Beam and ice cold cider from Vander Mill.

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Parson's Chicken and Fish is teaming up with Jim Beam for a weekend of whiskey and pumpkin carving.

Both Parson's Logan Square and Lincoln Park are home to two shiny, new Jim Beam Highball machines...and a bunch of pumpkins. Head to Logan this Saturday 10/19 from 12p-4p and to Lincoln Park on Sunday 10/20 from 12p-4p for carving, hot cider, high balls, and more! We'll have a limited number of complimentary pumpkins available, but feel free to BYO-pumpkin.

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Lost Lake will be doing double duty this Halloween! From October 25 - 27 and Halloween itself, Lost Lake will feature a spooky menu of Halloween tiki cocktails. And from October 28 - 31...Asians Fry Chicken is back!

Reprising one of the year’s most popular Shift-Ease, Lost Lake Executive Chef Fred Noinaj is excited to welcome an exciting roster of chefs for another edition of AFC: Asians Fry Chicken! And, since it’s Halloween, the whole bar will be making the transformation to AFC. From October 28 - 31, Lost Lake will feature a new AFC menu daily, with 25% of proceeds of food sales benefiting KAN-WIN, a non-profit whose mission is to eradicate all forms of violence against women, including domestic violence and sexual assault, by empowering Asian American survivors and engaging the community through culturally competent services, community education and outreach, and advocacy. 

Chef Fred conceived of Asians Fry Chicken as a chance to celebrate his heritage through the language fried chicken, a ubiquitous dish in many Asian countries: "As a child, it is not always apparent that being different is cool. Being the kid with the "weird" lunch who spoke an odd language made me ashamed of celebrating my ethnicity until I got older. Being able to bring friends together with similar upbringings to celebrate our cuisines is extremely empowering, especially because we are doing it for a good cause.”

Full schedule: 

Monday, October 28 

• Rishi Kumar, Bar Sotano: Yucatan Fire Fried Chicken | crispy chicken thigh nuggets, mango-habanero glaze

• Zeeshan Shah and Yoshi Yamada, Superkhana International: Fried Chicken Pao: mango pickle-buttermilk marinated fried chicken pao w/ achaar aioli

• Fred Noinaj, Lost Lake: Thai fried chicken thighs tossed with fried shallots and garlic and served with sweet chili sauce

Tuesday, October 29

• Lorraine Nguyen, Land and Sea Dept: Tandoori masala spiced legs with a honey glaze

• Lawrence Letrero, Bayan Ko: coconut adobo wings & pinoy macaroni salad

• Fred Noinaj, Lost Lake: Thai fried chicken thighs tossed with fried shallots and garlic and served with sweet chili sauce

Wednesday, October 30

• Palita Sriratana of Pink Salt: Tom Yum wings with lemongrass and makrut lime leaf. Served with chilli oil aoili

• Jennifer Kim of Passerotto: Korean Fried Chicken with sweet gochujang glaze + wakame salad

• Fred Noinaj, Lost Lake: Thai fried chicken thighs tossed with fried shallots and garlic and served with sweet chili sauce

Thursday, Octber 31
Fried chicken sandwiches by Fred Noinaj, Dani Kaplan, Jacob Moffet-Fleischer, and Eric Avila of Lost Lake: 

• Olive Oyl's: Fried chicken thigh, spicy mayo, extra pickles. $11

• Thai fried chicken, garlic aioli, cucumber, lime dressing $11

Daily sides: 

• Potato salad

• Hawaiian rolls with honey butter

• Cole slaw

Get ready y’all, Lonesome Rose has teamed up with our buddies at Metric Coffee for a Boot Scootin’ Brunch!

Join us on Sunday, October 20 from noon-4p for a festive fall afternoon of coffee cocktails (boozy and non-alcoholic), brunch specials, and all of your favorite 90s pop-country hits from Texas's very own DJ Mary Wells. We’re talkin’ prime Shania Twain, Dixie Chicks, and Brooks & Dunn. You definitely won’t want to miss this.🤠

On October 31, our outlets at the Chicago Athletic Association will be doing a tribute to Stephen King!

Game Room will be celebrating It, Drawing Room and Milk Room will be inspired by The Shining, and Cherry Circle Room will step back in time with 11/22/63. And up in Stagg Court, the Chicago Athletic Association's Stagg Court will be dressed up in school dance finest with a showing of Carrie. You can make your reservations for Cherry Circle Room here, Milk Room here, and grab your ticket for Carrie here! Game Room and Drawing Room are first come, first served as usual.

Cherry Circle Room has joined forces with Champagne Happy Hour for a very special Rosé edition of Champagne Happy Hour!

Join us Monday, October 7 from 5-7p in the Drawing Room to sample 6 different rosés from Taittinger, Pierre Moncuit, Paul Bara, Laherte, Charles Heidseck, and Drappier. CCR will be providing small bites and all of these wines will be available by the glass all night for $15 after the happy hour ends! Tickets are $15 ahead of time available here and $20 at the door. See you there!

Congratulations are in order for the team at Lost Lake who came in at #91 on The World's Best Bars list! They've jumped 8 spots from #99 on 2018's list. It's an incredible honor to be included amongst so many wonderful bars around the world, we're so proud of our favorite lil' tiki bar!

Mark your calendars, Nashville: We're officially here and it’s time to do what we do best— throw a big ol’ classic chooglin’ good times PARTY!

Join us Sunday, October 6th from 4-8p and help us kick-off the beginning of prime patio season.

We'll have live music from The Cowpokes, an interactive mural for the kiddos, and treats for your four-legged friends. We'll also have local vendors popping up and selling their wares including Rebirth Vintage Co., Apple & Oak Nashville, and Talk Nice Vintage. Plus plenty of cold beer and chicken! A portion of proceeds from Parson's Beer sales will benefit the Nashville Humane Association. Can't wait to see you there!

Join us Saturday, October 12 at Parson's Logan Square for a Honky Tonk House Party!

Chicago HonkyTonk DJs J.B. and Caitlin will be on the decks all day from 2-6pm. Ace High Vintage will be selling their killer wares, and we're thrilled to have The Cowpokes come up from Nashville to play a set on the patio!

PLUS we'll have some great, fall drink specials for you! $4 Modelos, $3 Parson's El Buho-Fruit Sangrita combo shots, and a special hot cocktail— the Triple C (Cowboy's Cure for the Cold) with Buffalo Trace, Peppercorn, Clove, Cinnamon, Honey and Lemon.

It's gonna be an all day rootin’ tootin’ good time 🤠 You won't wanna miss this!

Parson's Nashville is popping up at The Dive Motel for a POOL PARTY!

Join us on Saturday, October 5th from noon-4p for the first-ever food truck takeover at The Dive Motel in East Nashville! We'll be serving up frozen Negroni slushies poolside, along with some of our favorite fried snacks including fried fish, chicken nuggets, hush puppies and our chickpea salad.

Pool passes are available to the public, ages 21 and up, for $15 and can be purchased day of.

Enjoy the last few days of pool weather with us! Can't wait to see you there!

Letherbee Autumnal Gin Release Party
Lula Cafe
Septmeber 10 2019
7-10pm
Snacks provided by Txa Txa Club

This Friday is Whitney Day! To celebrate, the band will be at Parson's Chicken & Fish Logan Square for a lunch party. They’ll be DJing from 2-4p, and Parson’s will have a special “Forever Turned Around” slushy to celebrate their album release. See y’all there!

After a two year hiatus, Longman & Eagle is back for their end-of-summer block party!

Join us on Sunday, September 1 from 1-9p for an afternoon at the L&E Swap Meet. Longman & Eagle Executive Chef Max Robbins will be cooking up a meat-free menu of county fair favorites, like Loaded BBQ Nachos, Street Corn-Off-The-Cobb, Spicy Corndogs, and Chili Dogs (all featuring Beyond Meat plant-based products). Some of our favorite local shops and artists will be selling their wares, like Louie Capozolli, Ryan Duggan, Ace High Vintage, No Requests, and many more. We'll also have plenty of beer and cocktails to go around, DJs all day long, and for the first time ever... a mechanical bull!

Eleven Madison Park's Head Bartender, Matt Hunter, will be taking over the bars in Cherry Circle Room and Milk Room for two nights this month!

On Thursday, August 15 he’ll be taking over the cocktail cart in Cherry Circle Room, making three different martini variations. Then he'll be behind the bar in Milk Room on Friday, August 16 making signature Eleven Madison Park cocktails as well as a special menu of cocktails exclusive for the evening. Guests will have the opportunity to talk with him about his cocktail philosophy, Eleven Madison Park, and his relationship with Chicago. Reservations for both nights are available via Resy.

We are very happy to announce that the third Parson's Chicken and Fish location is now open in Nashville, Tennessee! The Nashville Parson's brings everything we know and love about the two Chicago locations down to Music City; the patio, the grub, and—of course—plenty of Original Negroni Slushies.

The original Parson’s opened in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood in 2013, and a second location followed in 2018 in Lincoln Park. Since the opening, the bar and restaurant has racked up awards and accolades, including being named one of Chicago’s best new restaurants by Bon Appétit, and best Chicago restaurant for summer nights by Travel + Leisure. A favorite for locals and travelers alike, Parson's was founded as a testament to the idea that eating and drinking can be affordable, delicious, and fun.

We're excited to bring the same vibes down to Nashville. The build-out, which echoes the design of the two Chicago locations, was done by acclaimed Nashville-based architecture and interior design studio DAAD. The building is part of the May Hosiery Coop, an historic former sock mill located just a mile south of downtown Nashville.

The new space features a massive patio complete with our signature umbrellas and ping pong, an outdoor shipping container bar (the same that served Parson's Logan Square for all those hot patio summers!), covered outdoor patio seating, and an indoor dining room and bar with garage doors.

Parson's Nashville features all your favorites from Chicago, plus some new additions like a griddle burger, chicken nuggets (yes) and a selection of local, Nashville beers. Parson's Hot Sauce made the trip south, as did our collaboration with Revolution Brewing, Parson's Beer.

Come see us next time you're in Nashville!