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Seasonal Ingredients: This just in
- Big Jones
- Chicago
Strawberries, nettles, green garlic, spring onions, wild bergamot, spearmint, and a plethora of petit lettuces.
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Today’s menu specials are
- Big Jones
- Chicago
Seared diver scallops with crispy Laurel-aged rice cakes, sea island benne sauteed spinach, creamy ginger beurre blanc
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Today's promotion/great deal is
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- Chicago
The Boarding House Lunch, ca 1933!
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Our bartenders are working on
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- Chicago
Summer cocktails - looking forward to the early part of the season with strawberries, rhubarb, and lots of herbs coming online.
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Our current inspiration — be it ingredient, weather, song or whatever — is
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- Chicago
A really interesting book from 1913 called "Dishes and Beverages of the Old South" which contains a lot of information about entertaining in addition to cooking, and lots of descriptions of very peculiar old heirloom crops that were common back then - ever heard of an Indian blood peach? A Cabbage collard? They've both got really interesting stories behind them.
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