To its core, it’s all about the food, the quality of the ingredients, the community, the energy, and the experience. Longman & Eagle is a Michelin-starred restaurant housed in a dive bar. Behind the bar, high on a shelf filled with liquor and a few stray odds and ends is a plaque with a Michelin star on it. But most importantly they serve excellent food. Longman & Eagle, located just across from the Logan Square train stop, is everything that I like in a restaurant. Longman & Eagle is- by a long shot- my favorite restaurant in Chicago, and possibly one of my top 10 favorites in the country. Monday evening I had reservations at Longman & Eagle in the Logan Square neighborhood northwest of downtown. The problem with deadlines in the middle of a trip is that when a writer makes a definitive statement such as “Girl & the Goat is my new favorite restaurant in Chicago,” he better have completed his trip. It was written in my hotel room early Monday morning on the last day of the three-day excursion. Last week, while in the middle of a caffeine-fueled, marathon journey through the Chicago restaurant scene, I stated that Girl & the Goat was my new favorite restaurant in Chicago. Occasionally, the timing of the Monday deadline comes back to bite me. Then I continue to write way past my deadline. I get up early on Monday morning and start writing until I reach my 10:00 a.m. That’s almost half of a million words (and almost that many pounds gained and lost, as my weight tends to fluctuate with the seasons and the travel schedule). This column turns 12-years old this month.įor almost a dozen years I have written approximately 750 words each week, never missing a week.
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