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Blogs, Bleader Sep 15, 2014
Worlds collide with the Hot Doug's-Butcher & Larder sausage collaboration

Butcher and sausage maker collaborate to make something "completely ridiculous and over the top."
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: One Bite, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Hot Doug's, Doug Sohn, Butcher & Larder, Rob Levitt, sausage, truffles, bratwurst, foie gras, pork rinds, chicaharrones

Food & Drink, Restaurant Review Nov 22, 2013
Recommended
The Chop Shop keeps it simple

Wicker Park's multidisciplinary butcher/bar/restaurant/performance space does a lot—and does a lot with a little.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Restaurant Reviews, The Chop Shop, fasting, restaurant reviews, meat, chicken, Honey Butter Fried Chicken, Wicker Park, butcher shops, bars, performance spaces, Minelli Meat & Deli, Butcher & Larder, Publican Quality Meats, deli meats, cheese, antipasti, sausage, steak, pork chops, Italian sausage, chicken, salmon, burgers, gnocchi, Urban Union, rib eye steak, strip steak, potatoes, hanger steak, bacon, kohlrabi, brussels sprouts, shrimp, root vegetables, beer, charcuterie, duck, pancetta, pork, liver, root vegetables, sandwiches, Chop Shop, Recommended

Blogs, Bleader Aug 14, 2013
Reader's Agenda Wed 8/14: The Sound Opinions End of Summer BBQ, Garlic Fest, and The Intruder

What's on the Reader's Agenda for Wednesday, August 14
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Arts, Sound Opinions End of Summer BBQ, Greg Kot, Jim DeRogatis, Smoque, Bang Bang Pie Shop, Black Dog Gelato, Butcher & Larder, Goose Island, WBEZ, Navy Pier, Garlic Fest, Everts Park, Highland Park, Northwest Chicago Film Society, The Intruder, Roger Corman, Star Trek, William Shatner

Food & Drink, Food & Drink Feature May 23, 2013
Locavorism Inc.

Can a new business increase the amount of local food we eat?
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink Feature, Dave Rand, chefs, Zeeshan Shah, Andrew Lutsey, Testa Produce, Pilsen, meat, cheese, maple syrup, Butcher & Larder, Indiana farms, Illinois farms, farms, Wisconsin farms, meat, produce, storage crops, potatoes, carrots, beets, rutabagas, beans, sweet potatoes, spring greens, organic produce, Local Foods Grocer, farm-direct meat, farm-direct produce, Sysco, food distribution, food wholesalers, beef, pork, goat, lamb, poultry, ramps, asparagus, Prairie Grass Cafe, Old Town Social, Perennial Virant, Table, Donkey and Stick, Merle Kauffman, Ohio House Motel, regional food hubs, Peapod, Vera, farmers' markets, Mark Mendez, Green City Market, locavorism, restaurants, markets, Bob Borchardt, Harvest Moon Farms, restaurant suppliers, local food, wholesale grocers, retail grocers, Quarter Circle Seven Ranch, Frank Morgan, Gold Bond Ice Cream, Popsicle, business, Irv & Shelley's, Goodness Greenness, Rufus Haucke, Keewaydin Farms, Just Local Foods, Amish farms, CSA, community-supported agriculture, farming, agriculture

Blogs, Bleader Apr 5, 2013
Video
Jason Vincent is a Food & Wine best new chef and other food news bites

Russian sausage, hummus law, the return of Logan Square Kitchen, and more
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Butcher & Larder, Rob Levitt, Michael Ruhlman, Alec Mikhaylov, Alef Sausage Co., Bernard's Bar, Waldorf Astoria, hummus, Jason Vincent, Nightwood, Food & Wine, Logan Square Kitchen, Zina Murray, Alinea, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 11, 2013
Fat power, or conserve your schmaltz

Don't throw away perfectly good schmaltz.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Cooking, Food Chain, Food & Drink, fat, Jennifer McLagan, From Belly to Bacon, Hot Doug's, Butcher & Larder, Fat, Mike Sula on cooking

Blogs, Bleader Dec 26, 2012
124 tasty things from 2012

I ate it all
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Year in Review, Food Chain, Food & Drink, Slurping Turtle, Bar Toma, Goosefoot, Three Floyd's Brewpub, Katsu, Nha Hang Viet Nam, Nhu Lan Bakery, Munster Donut, Yusho, Acadia, Sheeba (RIP), Alan Lake, Bread & Wine, Sankalp, Publican Quality Meats, Hagen’s, Urban Union, Lake Langano, RPM, Bar Ombra, Au Cheval, Baconfest, Cho Jung, Allium, Letherbee gin, Nellcote, The Nut House, Balena, Al Bawadi Grill, Troquet, Frog N Snail, Monti’s, Premise (R.I.P.), Spinzer Restaurant, ScofflawPhil’s Last Stand, Ma Gong La Po, Pizzeria da Nella Cucina Napoletana, Antique Taco, Cuenca’s Bakery, Kai Zan, Graham Elliot Bistro, Olga’s Deli, Himshikar, Smoking Goose’s Delaware Fireball, Dragon Ranch, Trenchermen, Yvolina’s Tamales, Savoy, Spencer’s Jolly Posh Food, Ghareeb Nawaz, Wood, Bavette’s Bar & Boeuf, Best Naan, P.E. Mullins, Masaki, Journeyman Distillery’s Featherbone Bourbon, Bonsoiree, 28-year-old cheddar, Covo Gyro Market, Bare Knuckle Farm, Butcher & Larder, Andy Thai Kitchen, Julien Fremont Cidre Brut par Nature, Elizabeth, Lao Ma La, Valentino Pasta, Wild Ophelia, The Publican, Homestyle Taste, Northern City, Masa Azul, Badou, La Sirena Clandestina, Fat Rice Avec, Reno, Embeya, Variations on a Theme

Blogs, Bleader Oct 22, 2012
Apple-fed pastured pig parts, brought to you by Buick

On smuggling a pig from Michigan
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Cooking, Food Chain, Food & Drink, pork, Bare Knuckle Farm, Rob Levitt, Chris Turner, Danielle Kaplan, Butcher & Larder, Buick Regal, Mike Sula on cooking

Blogs, Bleader Sep 10, 2012
One Bite: Spencer's Jolly Posh black-and-white pudding

Blood sausage: it's not just for breakfast anymore.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Spencer's Jolly Posh Foods, back pudding, white pudding, back bacon, Nick Spencer, blood sausage, British food, Irish food, morcilla, sundae, Vera, Butcher & Larder, Publican Quality Meats

Blogs, Bleader Aug 20, 2012
Jonathan Zaragoza to command kitchen at Masa Azul

The Prince of Chivo starts cooking at the tequila-focused restaurant Masa Azul in mid-September
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Jonathan Zaragoza, Birrieria Zaragoza, Masa Azul, tequila, Jenny Kessler, Mexican food, goat, birria, Andrew Zimmern, Bizarre Foods, Sepia, Butcher & Larder, Pleasant House Bakery

Blogs, Bleader Mar 15, 2012
This week's food and drink events

The Good Food Festival, a curling and lasagna event, Saint Patrick's Day specials, and more.
- By Daniel Gerzina
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Girl and the Goat, Kilgus Farms, Stillwater Artisanal Ales, Virtue Cider, Underground Goat, Cityscape Bar, Graystone Wines, Italiasia, Sheffield's, Founders Kentucky Breakfast Stout, Good Food Festival, Localicious, Autre Monde Cafe, Big Bowl, Big Jones, Chicago Diner, City Provisions, Duke's Ale House and Kitchen, Province, Trattoria No. 10, the Bedford, Saigon Sisters, Browntrout, Uncommon Ground, Revolution Brewing Company, Half Acre, Goose Island, Templeton Rye, Sunnyside Up, Real Dirt on Farmer John, Markethouse, Lent, Bell's Ale, Green Line, Good Food Festival, Bruce Sherman, North Pond Restaurant, Mark Mendez, Vera, Rob Levitt, Butcher & Larder, Paul Virant, Vie, Culinary Historians of Chicago, Jennifer McLagan, Kendall College School of Culinary Arts, Chicago Curling Club, Twisted Butter, World Senior Curling Championship, U.S. Curling Team, Ram Brewery, Saint Patrick's Day, 25 Degrees, The Gage, Pizza Persona, The Southern, Jerry's Wicker Park, Renaissance Hotel Chicago, Dinner Tales, Blackbird, Paul Kahan, Mercadito, Patricio Sandoval, Olmeca Tequila, Chichicapa Mezcal, Double A, Firestone Walker XV, DJ Grimsborg, Mas de Gourgonnier, Daniel Hodge, H2Vino, Les Baux de Provence, Bistro Campagne.

Blogs, Bleader Mar 6, 2012
Video
Sky Full of Bacon: The Butcher's Karma

Michael Gebert's newest video, "The Butcher's Karma," is now streaming online.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Food Chain, Film, Food & Drink, Michael Gebert, The Butcher's Karma, Rob Levitt, Butcher & Larder, Paul Kahan, Erling Wu-Bower, Publican Quality Meats, Bartlett Durand, Black Earth Meats, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 20, 2012
The elusive green chorizo

The Butcher & Larder chorizo verde isn't green, but it's the best
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, chorizo verde, green chorizo, El Gallo Bravo, Rob Levitt, Butcher & Larder, sausage, Mexican food, Toluca, Rick Bayless

Blogs, Bleader Dec 29, 2011
133 tasty things from 2011

I ate it all
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Tamales Garibay, the Florentine, H Mart, Prince Creperie Cafe, the Sodfather, Chez Violette, MingHin Cuisine, Butcher & Larder, Leopold, La Taberna Tapas, Ruby's, Bistronomic, Paris Club, Leader Bar, Frontier, Ing, Lure Izakaya Pub, Birrieria Zaragoza, Cafe des Architectes, GT Fish & Oyster, Next Restaurant, Paris 1906, Tour of Thailand, Childhood, Underground Meats, Nostrano, Aviary, the Molecular Collective, Paul McGee, the Whistler, Goose Island Madame Rose, La Chaparrita, the Bedford, Pleasant House Bakery, Golden Pacific Market, Aroy Thai, Harvesttime Foods, Scottish Festival and Highland Games, Rancho Mateo, Humboldt Park Puerto Rican Fest, Lemonhart 151, Mike Ryan, Sable, Union Sushi & Barbeque Bar, Rustic House, Black Sheep, NoMi Kitchen, Autre Monde, Wisconsin State Fair, Telegraph Wine Bar, Al Dente, Roots Handmade Pizza, Masa Azul, Lao Hunan, Michael Jordan's Steak House, the Pump Room, Tozi Korean BBQ, Cai Fine Dining and Banquet, Maude's Liquor Bar, Phoenix tofu, Three Aces, Harvard Sportsmen's Club, Wat Dhammaram Songkran, 2007 Black Slate Porrera, Vera, Almawal, El Ideas, Snack Planet, JoongBoo Market, Nha Hang Viet Nam, Nathan Sears, Baconfest, Mick Klug Farm, Ripasso, jicama stick, Victor Mejia, Tortas Frontera, Matty Eggleston, Perennial Virant, Barrelhouse Flat, Ben Schiller, Jason Turley, Bar DeVille

Blogs, Bleader Sep 23, 2011
Cook with Michael Ruhlman

Michael Ruhlman comes to the Butcher & Larder for an interactive cooking event.
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Michael Ruhlman, Rob Levitt, Ruhlman's Twenty, Butcher & Larder

Food & Drink, Key Ingredient Aug 25, 2011
Video
Key Ingredient: Abalone

The Butcher & Larder's Rob Levitt steams up sea snails
- By Julia Thiel
- Tags: Key Ingredient, Rob Levitt, Butcher & Larder, abalone, Mark Mendez, Uva, The Butcher & Larder, Video

Best of Chicago, Food & Drink Jun 23, 2011
Best newly minted (if loosely defined) neighborhood for destination dining

Noble Square
- Tags: Food & Drink, The Reader's picks, Noble Square, Butcher & Larder, Frontier, Black Sheep, Bia for Mia, Kai Sushi, Leopold, West Town Tavern, Green Zebra, The Butcher & Larder, Frontier, The Black Sheep

Blogs, Bleader Apr 29, 2011
This Week in Food & Drink: Garlic Mustard, Cafe des Architectes, Key Ingredient Dried Shrimp, a New Cocktail Challenge, and More

This week in Food & Drink: what to do with the invasive plant garlic mustard, Key Ingredient dried shrimp, Cafe des Architectes under new chef Greg Biggers, a new cocktail challenge, and more.
- By Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Environment, Eco, Garlic mustard, invasive plants, Mike Ryan, Sable, Iliana Regan, foraging, Key Ingredient, dried shrimp, Carlos Gaytan, Mexique, Doug Sohn, Hot Doug's, chicken feet, Cafe des Architectes, Greg Biggers, Martial Noguier, Bistronomic, Defaced Barware, Pete Guigni, the Bedford, Mark Steuer, Gabe Klein, Chicago Department of Transportation, food trucks, Rahm Emanuel, On the Fly, Smartkarts, Smartkafes, licensing, Scott Waguespack, Jim Graziano, J.P. Graziano, Green City Market, Rob Levitt, Butcher & Larder, Share Our Strength, child hunger, bake sale, raffle

Blogs, Bleader Apr 1, 2011
This Week in Food & Drink: Wild Animals and Oysters, Blackbird at 14, Stephanie Izard Goes "Badass" With Key Ingredient Confectioners' Sugar, Eight More New Restaurants, and More

In this week's food and drink: Whole animals, wild game, and oysters at Frontier, Blackbird at 14, Key Ingredient confectioners' sugar, a recipe for oden, and reviews of eight new restaurants
- By Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, Brian Jupiter, Frontier, game, whole animal cookery, Butcher & Larder, Blackbird, David Posey, Mike Sheerin, Paul Kahan, Patrick Fahy, Beard awards, Alinea, Stephanie Izard, Mark Steuer, Key Ingredient, confectioners' sugar, Girl & the Goat, Randy Zweiban, Province, tamarind, Oden, Bia for Mia, Fork, Gosu, Kai Sushi, Kanela Breakfast Club, Leader Bar, Prix Fixe, Restaurant Buen Gusto

Blogs, Bleader Feb 9, 2011
One Bite: Pork Collar From the Butcher & Larder

Cooking for a crowd with pork collar from the Butcher & Larder.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food Chain, Food & Drink, pork collar, Butcher & Larder, Rob Levitt, Chris Turner, coppa, lardo, Slagel Family Farms, pigs, Yorkshire, Duroc, Rick Bayless, Mexican food

Food & Drink, Morsels Dec 30, 2010
CTA in Horto

A mobile garden, a stridentist space tamale truck, and more
- By Kate Schmidt
- Tags: Morsels, Joe Baldwin, CTA mobile garden, Noisivelet, Mobile Garden, Chicago mobile garden, Dragonlady Lounge, Robert Castillo, Mado, Brandon Baltzley, Rob Levitt, Allie Levitt, David Richards, Sweets & Savorites, Bluette, Butcher & Larder, Wasabi, Tamalli Space Charros, Atzlan Cardinal, Raul Arreola, Mixteco Grill, Fat Rosie's Taco & Tequila Bar, Sweets & Savories

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