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LOGAN SQUARE KITCHEN PRESENTS
POP-UP RESTAURANT WITH CELEBRATED CHICAGO CHEFS
JULY 24-25

WHAT:
Logan Square Kitchen, the shared-use LEED Gold certified sustainable commercial kitchen and event space, brings Chicago’s first pop-up restaurant (a temporary eating place that pops up in the site of another business) to life THIS WEEKEND, July 24-25, during the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival. In concert with celebrated Chicago chefs Bill Kim of Belly Shack and Urban Belly, and Jason Hammel of Nightwood and Lula Café, this unique culinary event is for TWO DAYS ONLY.

The restaurant will feature Chef Jason Hammel of Lula Café and Nightwood (in partnership with Intelligentsia) and Chef Bill Kim of Urban Belly and Belly Shack. Chefs Hammel and Kim will work side-by-side, each providing distinctly different cuisine.

Open during the Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival, the Logan Square Pop-Up Restaurant will present festival food—simple and fun.

Quick counter service that will be CASH ONLY. Limited seating will be available.
Food will be designed to travel, allowing folks to get back to music stages and art galleries.

WHO:
Housed in the gorgeous Logan Square Kitchen, Chicago’s only sustainable kitchen and event space (http://www.logansquarekitchen.com).

Chef Hammel’s pop-up restaurant will be have a coffee and doughnut theme. Hammel on this experience: “Being a chef is all about repetition, about trying to do something again and again in just the same way. The pop-up gives us the freedom to take chances, to play, to just have fun doing what we love. It's like wearing a costume and going undercover—Chicago has never seen us like this before.”

Chef Kim’s pop-up restaurant will have a summer picnic theme. Kim on this experience: “A pop-up restaurant gives me the freedom to experiment for a short time and get instantaneous feedback—it’s the freedom that makes it so appealing. Like test driving a great car.”

Open to the public, and CASH ONLY.

WHEN:
July 24 & 25, 2010 ONLY
11 a.m. - 5 p.m.

WHERE:
Logan Square Kitchen
2333 N. Milwaukee Avenue
Chicago, IL 60647
773-342-2333

Logan Square Kitchen (http://www.logansquarekitchen.com) consists of shared commercial kitchen, available on an hourly basis, and an event space, home to private and regular sustainable events. LSK has achieved elite LEED Gold Certification. Logan Square Kitchen has presented a number of wildly popular events including the Logan Square Kitchen Pastry Markets which were the first in a series of events dedicated to the emerging talents in Chicago’s sustainable, artisanal food community. The next Logan Square Kitchen Pastry Market will be October 30, but stay tuned for a number of exciting culinary events in the near future.

For more information please contact: Shannan Bunting (Shannan@SolsticePR.com) or 773.942.1100.

I like coffee, donuts and picnic food, so may give this a try even though this description did not help me understand what the "pop-up restaurant" idea is. It sounds like people cooking and selling food at a festival.

I got the impression that "pop-up restaurant" is the food version of those fly-by-night, cash-only, all-sales-final Halloween stores that start appearing around Labor Day in shuttered Blockbuster Videos and out-of-business furniture stores.

Sorry, I'm dense. So all food stands at street festivals are popup restuarants, then? Or maybe only the ones that have PR that gives the proper nomenclature to the public?

You probably also need some level of hipster participation. Maybe a minimum number of wispy mustaches and people carrying skateboards.

You probably also need some level of hipster participation. Maybe a minimum number of wispy mustaches and people carrying skateboards.

Not all food stands are pop-ups because pop-ups tend to appear in unexpected places that are actually permanent structures, like art galleries in unoccupied (historically non-art) retail spaces in the Loop. I believe Target had a pop-up on Fifth Avenue, or maybe it was Times Square (somewhere at least culturally very distant from downtown or Brooklyn). No skateboard was required for admission (though maybe Target has been co-opted by hipsters; I haven't skated since I lived in NYC).

Target had a pop up right on Michigan Avenue (In the Tribune Tower) a couple of years ago for Christmas. It was a fresh idea back then.

Paul Purdhomme had "temporary" restaurants in SF/1983 and NY, NY/1985.

Steve, didn't you do a Pop Up for your blocks communal garage sale. Grilled hot dogs I believe.

Paul Purdhomme had "temporary" restaurants in SF/1983 and NY, NY/1985.

Looks like fun... I was thinking of riding my bike to the Logan Square farmers market anyway on Sunday... I'm "training" for Fork and the Road's 17-mile Dumpling Derby in September!

I've been to two pastry markets at the Logan Square Kitchen and both times they were jam-packed from the opening. I'm guessing earlier is better for the pop-up resto, too.

(I have a thing for pop-ups, if that's not obvious yet.)

... it seems more pop-ups are on the way for Chicago.

What makes you say that?

X-Marx Chicago is doing pop-up restaurants at Birchwood Kitchen and Pannenkoken Cafe Wicker Park on two August weekends.

So if Jason Hammel makes donuts at Belly Shack one day, is that a Nightwood pop-up? Seems to bastardize the term.

A bit confusing, but frankly the term pop-up seems contrived to me anyway. At least they are not contradicting themselves via sauce/dry rub

A bit confusing, but frankly the term pop-up seems contrived to me anyway. At least they are not contradicting themselves via sauce/dry rub

Well, all language is contrived, so "pop-up" is no more of a social construct than "diner," "speakeasy," or "gastro-pub."