On September 22, Milk Room is coming to Longman & Eagle! While the tiny rare spirits bar in the Chicago Athletic Association is temporarily closed due to Covid-19, the crew at Longman is having them over for a multi-course tasting event, exploring both establishments' deep shelves of vintage and hard-to-find bottles.

Guests will be greeted with a welcome cocktail, followed by two rare pours from Longman & Eagle's collection, each paired with high-end bites from Longman's culinary team, as well as a dessert course featuring a digestif and a bite.  Additional cocktails will be available from a special a la carte menu of Milk Room and Longman & Eagle cocktails (Longman & Eagle's full dinner menu will be available as well). 

Tickets for this collaborative experience are $86 per person (not including tax or gratuity) - book via Resy. We hope you can join us!

Please note: If there is a forecast of rain for Tuesday, September 22, this event will be rescheduled for Wednesday, September 23. If it begins to rain during the event, all remaining food and whiskey courses will be packaged for guests to enjoy at home. Reservations will be limited to 90 minutes per Covid-19 restrictions. Unfortunately we are unable to accommodate dietary restrictions or substitution requests.

The beverage portion of the menu will feature:

Welcome Cocktail: A Washington Apple

First Pour: Peerless Rye 4 Year "Peerless & Eagle"
Paired with: Smoked Whitefish Hushpuppy, Pickle Juice Remoulade

Second Pour: Maker's Mark Private Select 2016 x Longman & Eagle
Paired with: Benton’s 12 Month-Aged Smoked Country Ham, Salted Butter, Hot Honey, Pickled Mustard Seed

Dessert Pour: Belle Meade Sherry Finish Cask Strength - L&E Selection
Paired with: Foie Gras Torchon, Stonefruit, Sweet Cream, Toasted Almond

Farewell Digestif: El Tesoro & Cynar Stirred Sipper
A la carte cocktail offerings:

Milk Room 
20th Century Cocktail
Bamboo
Last Word

L&E
Old Fashioned w/ Eagle Rare L&E Selection
Longman Manhattan w/ Russell’s Reserve L&E Selection
Sazerac w/ Peerless Rye “Peerless & Eagle

Dana Cree of @prettycoolicecream and Max Robbins of L&E are launching Sundae Mondays, a new charity series benefitting Black Lives Matter Chicago

Every Monday at Longman & Eagle’s to-go window from 4p - close, $5 single-scoop sundaes will be available, featuring a different special topping from a lineup of Chicago culinary voices. Thanks to donations from Pretty Cool, our guests collaborators, and Longman, 100% of proceeds from the sundae sales will go directly to BLM Chicago. 

Check out L&E’s Instagram account for amazing lineup of collaborators for the toppings (more to be announced!) and see you guys on Monday!

Dead Night is back at Parson's Lincoln Park! Every Wednesday evening starting at 6pm, head to Parson's and join bartenders Turbo and Eric for full live Grateful Dead shows, all played on cassettes. Is it a coincidence this falls on Wing Wednesday? No! Double the fun. See you there.

INTRODUCING:
LSD TRIPS

All your trips are canceled. Let us take one for you. 

We're excited to introduce a new tier to our catering offerings: LSD Trips.

We've got fully customizable packages available for whatever occasion you have planned. Backyard birthday taco party? Got it, plus plenty of margaritas. Intimate coursed anniversary dinner, complete with private chef? Yup, we can help. Patio whiskey tasting bachelor party, guided by an expert bartender? Correct! And all of it done safely? 100%. 

Here's a peek at what we've planned, below. If you've got an LSD in-home party dream that you don't see here, just send us a note and we'll see what we can do: events@landandseadept.com.

• Private, in-home dining 

• Custom menus prepared and served in-home by Culinary Director Chef Max Robbins 

• Your favorite cocktails, wine, and beer from the Land and Sea Dept. universe

Longman & Eagle

• Multi-course tasting menu

• Signature cocktails

• Custom whiskey flights and guided group tastings including hard-to-find and vintage bottles

Lonesome Rose

• Taco bar

• Build-your-own nachos

• Margaritas, mezcal, and more

Milk Room

• Rare and vintage spirits

• Classic cocktails and guided tastings 

• High-end culinary pairings including caviar, foie gras, and Jamón Ibérico

Email events@landandseadept.com for pricing and details.

Need a larger order? We've got you covered there, too. Lonesome Roseand Parson's Chicken and Fish have both drop-off and pick-up catering options available, for groups of any size. Slushies included (of course). 

Take a look at our catering menus and give us a shout. You'll be the hero of socially distant work hang.

Lonesome Rose Summer 2020 Catering Menu
Parson's Chicken and Fish Summer 2020 Catering Menu

We're also donating a portion of catering sales each month to a rotating non-profit partner. First up is 360 Nation, a community organization based out of the West side of Chicago that utilizes relationship building, gifts, and talents to promote self determination in the Black community. Follow them here.

For a soothing at-home activity, print out a few of these Parson's coloring mats, designed by our buddy Louie Capozzoli. Just grab the jpeg below and get coloring. Fun for the whole family! Don't forget to tag us in your finished masterpieces.

Our friends at Vans are helping us out during this crisis. Our art director Drew Ryan designed a pair of custom shoes - the net proceeds from every pair sold will go to us, to help our employees out and make sure we can open the doors to our spaces after this passes. A Big thanks to Vans for launching this project to help out small business in these tough times.

To get yourself a pair go over HERE.

Chicago magazine asked a few local chefs for recipes you can make with things lying around at home. See Chef Max from L&E and more HERE.

Our friends at Stock Mfg and Leisure Activities put together this great fundraiser for Chicagos hospitality industry. Check it out (and support it) HERE.

COVID-19 has affected all of us, but few more directly than our friends in the hospitality industry. The (certainly understandable) government shut-down on bars and restaurants has put thousands of our friends and family out of work for the foreseeable future. Just as we rely on them to keep Chicago one of the most vibrant dining cities in the world, they rely on us to support them through good times and bad. 100% of the net proceeds from this product will go directly toward financial relief for employees affected by this unfortunate circumstance. We'll make it through this, but only together. Thanks for your support.

If day 14 of video conferences and endless pajamas has you down, we've got some small consolation for you.

Meet the LSD Background Pack. Take your morning meetings on the Lonesome Rose rooftop, have a virtual Negroni Slushy on the Parson's patio for happy hour and burn the midnight oil (and maybe tie one on) at Lost Lake. May we suggest the intimate booths of Cherry Circle Room for a one on one check in with the boss? Or how about Milk Room to up your virtual date game? 

Chicago's own Post-Animal is on tour with their new album Forward Motion Godyssey, and they're swinging through Nashville! They'll be DJing a very special brunch set at Parson's Nashville on Sunday, March 22, from 1-3pm, the morning after their show at Exit/In on Saturday, March 21. Join us for some a Sunday afternoon for some tunes, brunch, and drinks with some of our favorite Chicago musicians!

In March, the Lost Lake bar team is taking a trip to Jamaica with Maison Ferrand to visit the funkiest funky Jamaican rum distilleries, and their friends at Death & Co. are coming from NYC (and LA and Denver) to make cocktails for you while they're away!

They’ve created a menu of tropical takes on their signature cocktails, and Lost Lake's own Executive Sous Chef Dani Kaplan has curated a dinner menu to compliment. Death & Co.’s residency will run from March 10-14, 5pm-2am each day, and seats will be first come, first served.

Lost Lake is a semifinalist for Outstanding Bar Program for the James Beard Foundation Awards! Huge congrats to the entire crew. Come by for a drink to toast the team with us!

On March 5, join us for an intimate cocktail tasting in Milk Room with Nathaniel Wilson of Westward Whiskey. This two-hour experience will include cocktails featuring Cherry Circle Room's single barrel Westward whiskey as well as limited edition expressions and small plates from Chef Johnny Anderes. Reservations are available for $125 per person, inclusive of gratuity. Grab your tickets here.

After the tasting in Milk Room, join us in Drawing Room for a very special family-style dinner with paired tasting specials. Get tickets to that portion of the evening via Tock, here. 

On March 28, in honor of International Women's Day and Women's History Month, join Land and Sea Dept. for SHE/HER/HERS, a showcase celebrating the best of Chicago’s women, femme, and non-binary performers, makers, movers, and shakers.

The evening will feature performances from Elizabeth De La Piedra, Mother Nature, Bunny, Mariachi Sirenas, and The Fly Honeys, plus food from Sol Cafe, a photobooth by Ashleigh Dye, and an installation by Alyx Harch.

Tickets will be available for a suggested donation of $10. Proceeds from ticket sales will benefit Working on Womanhood (WoW), a Chicago-based group whose mission is to improve social-emotional competencies for girls in 7th-12th grade exposed to traumatic stressors in high risk and under-resourced communities, through a multifaceted, school year-long group counseling and clinical mentoring program. 

RSVP will run through HouseofVans.com, and will be open soon — stay tuned. In the meantime, save the date and get excited! It's gonna be a party to remember.

Land and Sea Dept. is looking for a full-time social media manager to handle content creation and posting across six restaurant concepts (Parson’s Chicken and Fish, Cherry Circle Room, Game Room, Milk Room, Lonesome Rose, and Golden Teardrops). 

Sound like something you're interested in? Check out the description below and reach out to carrie@landandseadept.com with a cover letter, resume, and examples of past work. 

Position: Social Media Manager, Land and Sea Dept.
FLSA Status: Exempt
Reports to: Director of Marketing, PR, and Partnerships

Responsibilities:

• Analyze social account performance and create weekly and monthly reports

• Assist marketing team with various projects as needed

• Attend events for content creation or coordinate event content creation

• Capture and edit social media photography on site at restaurants

• Collaborate with marketing and design teams on brand goals to ensure cohesion across promotional platforms

• Create social media schedules for all concepts with marketing team

• Create basic graphics for social media usage

• Develop content and copy for posts, working with Marketing Director for approvals

• Establish and maintain social media editorial calendars for the year, including national and local holidays and events, and restaurant specifics - events and initiatives with marketing team

• Execute paid social media campaigns 

• Identify industry and local trends and translate into relevant content for social channels

• Manage guest interactions and engagement on social accounts

• Manage and create daily social media for six restaurant concepts, including - Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook (Parson’s Chicken and Fish, Cherry Circle Room, Game Room, Milk Room, Lonesome Rose, and Golden Teardrops)

• Track analytics and growth metrics

Qualifications and skills:

• 2+ years experience in social media content generation, social media management and photography

• A record of achieving results through sponsored social media campaigns 

• Able and available to work flexible hours necessary to manage job responsibilities effectively

• Able and willing to attend weekend and evening events as needed

• Communication skills, including a strong grasp on spelling and grammar

• Creativity and an interest in Chicago’s cultural scene and hospitality community

• Experience with Adobe Suite

• Familiarity with Sprout Social or equivalent

• Must have own transportation to attend off site events

• Photography skills and experience

• Prior restaurant experience a plus

• Willingness to collaborate and work with all team members (front and back of house) in order to achieve success

This January marks Longman & Eagle’s tenth anniversary. To celebrate the occasion, the Longman team will be revisiting some of their favorite dishes and drinks from throughout the last decade. For the last ten days of the month, head to Longman for a special menu featuring three dishes and three cocktails from the Longman archive of greatest hits, taking us way back through the years all the way to founding chef Jared Wentworth. The special menu will be available for dinner daily (in addition to the full menu) from January 23 through February 1.

Then, in true Longman fashion, we’ll host a blow out Monday night party, open to the community. On Monday, February 3. From 5-8p, join the L&E team for bites, drinks, and music, and let us say thanks for ten years of good times in Logan Square. Some familiar faces will be back to tend bar (stay tuned for the lineup!) and we’ll welcome the next ten years of Longman & Eagle with a party to remember. RSVP to rsvp@longmanandeagle.com to join in.

Parson’s Chicken and Fish is coming to the Loop!

For one month only, the Parson’s patio is popping up indoors at the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel from Tuesday, January 7, to Saturday, February 1; Monday - Saturday from 11am - 8pm.

Executive Chef and Managing Partner Hunter Moore is bringing all the hits downtown for the pop-up. Guests can expect all their favorite Parson’s grub — chicken sandwiches and nuggets (all available regular, hot, and demon style), fish sandwiches, hush puppies, and more.

Beverage Director and Managing Partner Charlie Schott will be stocking the bar with all the favorites: Parson’s Beer, Negroni Slushies, Red Skeleton slushies, hot cider with Jim Beam, Jim Beam Highballs, picklebacks, and the brand new Parson’s Housemade Pickle Soda.

The Parson’s crew is bringing the whole patio to the Chicago Athletic Association’s Tank space (formerly the hotel’s pool!), including ping pong, bags, patio party vibes (of course), a bunch of twinkling lights...and all those red and white signature umbrellas. There will be programming multiple times a week as well, including music, karaoke, parties, and more.

WEEKNIGHT PROGRAMMING:
Tuesday 1/7: Grand Opening Party with DJ Jill Hopkins | 5-8p
Wednesday 1/8: The Hoyle Brothers | 5-8p
Friday 1/10: DOG NIGHT | 5-8p
Monday 1/13: Twin Peaks DJ set | 6-8p
Monday 1/20: Twin Peaks DJ set | 6-8p
Wednesday 1/22: The Hoyle Brothers | 5-8p
Friday 1/24: Karaoke | 5-8p
Monday 1/27: Twin Peaks DJ set | 6-8p
Wednesday 1/29: Charity Bingo benefiting the Shedd Aquarium | 6-7:30p
More to be announced... stay tuned!

Summer is coming early this year. Come party on the patio with Parson’s!

Photo: Clayton Hauck

We're excited to welcome a new addition to our Land and Sea Dept. team at the Chicago Athletic Association: Chef Johnny Anderes is the new executive chef, overseeing Cherry Circle Room, Drawing Room, Game Room and Milk Room. Johnny was formerly executive chef and partner at Bar Biscay, and prior to that, Telegraph and The Kitchen.

Chef Johnny is preparing a special four-course Christmas Day dinner this year, featuring a bread and salad course, your choice of octopus with almonds, chorizo, garlic, kumquats, potatoes, or potato leek soup with white sturgeon caviar, then three choices of entree: Glazed ham with holiday mustard sauce, herb-crusted prime rib with jus, or whitefish with brown butter, grapefruit, and roe — plus dessert! This feast can be yours for $125 per person, including tax and gratuity. The full Cherry Circle Room beverage menu will be available.

Book here, via Resy.

Every so often, we’ll ask one of our favorite artists to design a limited run of t-shirts for the Lonesome Rose T-Shirt Club. For the 6th installment, we have Eliza Weber from the band Glyders. Our art director Drew Ryan did an email interview with Eliza, you can read it below and pick up a shirt from Lonesome Rose or our web store.

Photos by Sanjana Elina (except where noted)

Hey Eliza what's good?
Hey Drew ! Life is pretty good right now.

You're a musician too—where do you rehearse and create visual art? Are these separate workspaces?
Yes, although they are both in my & Josh's home aka the juicy lagoon. Visual art upstairs in my office, music downstairs in the basement.

Do you have any photos of your workspace/studio?
Be warned my office is also my closet & it's not exactly neat....

Photo courtesy of the artist

Where ya from? When did you move to Chicago?
Born in Chicago, grew up in Evanston, went to school in NYC, moved back to Chicago in 2013.

Your design work comes from a place of necessity—you started making flyers and graphics because you had to tell people about your shows, not because you are a design student or a professional looking for more opportunities. What was the first design-related job or project you did that wasn't for your own band?
Hard to remember..... I think most likely it was a flier for Dumpster Tapes, or maybe The Bingers. Back then I charged $20 for fliers haha.

I love when designers stray away from industry-standard programs to create their work. I remember you telling me about this online graphics editor that you use on occasion. Can you elaborate?
That would be pixlr.com, a web-based photo editor. It's basically dollar-store photoshop. When I first started making fliers I didn't have a real computer, just a Chromebook. I would use Pixlr on the computers at the bike shop where I was working. I eventually got a laptop and Adobe programs and haven't used it since. Kind of can't believe I used it for as long as I did. Maybe I'll fire it up again one of these days.....

Got anything you're working on that you're excited about?
Just finished up a shirt for Trouble in Mind records that I'm really stoked to share. I've been a fan of that label for awhile so it was an honor to work on. It was also my first chance to do a crazy maximal design with front, back & sleeves and it's gonna be printed in four colors!

You're at Taco Bell and you've got $2—what do you order?
I'd scour the floor of the van for change until I scrape together enough for a crunchwrap, sub beans for beef.

Got any favorite designers or illustrators on your radar?
Oh man, so many and most of them right here in Chicago. I started following Josef Minor this year and am obsessed with his work. Also Clare Byrne, Bill Connors, David Strother, Crystal Zapata, Ben Marcus, Jacob Gardener, Drew Ryan (no bull!)....

Favorite Glyders show? Worst Glyders show?
Could never choose a favorite, but playing with Fred & Toody of Dead Moon at the bottle is up there for sure. Worst would have to be Be Here Now in Muncie, Indiana when I had the flu and locked the keys in the van.

What's the sketchiest place you've slept while on tour?
An old military prison cell in Prague.

Shoutout to:
Josh, all the homies, Mother Earth