{"id":405407,"date":"2021-12-10T03:25:29","date_gmt":"2021-12-10T09:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/?p=405407"},"modified":"2021-12-10T11:50:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-10T17:50:04","slug":"have-a-jolly-meatlovers-holiday-with-lardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/have-a-jolly-meatlovers-holiday-with-lardon\/","title":{"rendered":"Have a Jolly Meatlover&#8217;s Holiday with Lardon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard? There is a new holy ground for all meat lovers in Chicago. Indeed, we&#8217;re talking about Lardon, located at <strong>2200 N California Ave<\/strong>, one of the latest addition to the Logan Square dining scene. Featuring freshly sourced, cured, and sliced meat, Lardon quickly gained its ground among the many restaurants in Logan Square with the undefeatable texture, flavor, and quality of their meat products.<\/p>\n<p>Partnering with local farmers and utilizing whole animals instead of prepackaged meat, Lardon will impress your tastebuds with simple yet perfect food items. Ridding the unnecessary fanciness of the modern dining scene, the restaurant reconnects us with our food and prompts us to rethink our relationship with the ingredients being consumed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sbi-embed-wrap\">\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media sbi-embed\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CU7fGQWM9v0\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:658px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\">\n<div style=\"padding:16px;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CU7fGQWM9v0\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" background:#FFFFFF; line-height:0; padding:0 0; text-align:center; text-decoration:none; width:100%;\" target=\"_blank\"> <\/p>\n<div style=\" display: flex; flex-direction: row; 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CU7fGQWM9v0\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by Lardon (@lardonchicago)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Montserrat, sans-serif; font-size: 3.2143rem; letter-spacing: -0.3px;\">Whole-Animal Processing<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unlike any other meat-centered restaurants around, Lardon strictly uses the entire animal in their process. Through careful sourcing and dedicated communication, the restaurant has established a relationship with a local farmer who raises a particular type of pig each month and delivers them to the team as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being able to control what goes into the curing room and the consistency of the source is the first and foremost reason why we go with whole animals. It\u2019s hard to tell the health of an animal looking at the meat out of a bag. All come as a side of pork and I can see the bruises or broken bones or how they were handled. It allows us a really fantastic control in quality and we can address that at the time of getting the animal,&#8221; Chef Thompson explained to us.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, utilizing whole animals is also the secret to why you will get the best deal on the highest quality meat only at Lardon. That&#8217;s because using a full animal reduces the amount of work needed to be done, and therefore reducing the cost the restaurant faces. 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font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:17px; margin-bottom:0; margin-top:8px; overflow:hidden; padding:8px 0 7px; text-align:center; text-overflow:ellipsis; white-space:nowrap;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CRW6KfFLhb_\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" style=\" color:#c9c8cd; font-family:Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; line-height:17px; text-decoration:none;\" target=\"_blank\">A post shared by Lardon (@lardonchicago)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rejuvenating Chicago History<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Inspired by old-school butcher shops, salumerias, and cafes across the globe, Lardon is breathing new life into Chicago&#8217;s meat processing history. From Civil War all the way through the 1920s, Chicago was the nation&#8217;s meat processing hub, known as the Hot Butcher of the World.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I really like to expand people\u2019s knowledge of a disappearing craft. The more people learn and add to their vocabulary, the more it increases the diner\u2019s IQ. If I can educate people and not just feed them, it just makes my job easier as a chef. It makes the dining scene and the food culture scene better as a whole. Chicago\u2019s great because there are all these educated and interested diners here,&#8221; said Chef Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the restaurant is located in a historic building. The two-year restoration project preserved the majority of the original structure and decor, including the brick walls and the wooden joints. On the other hand, the restored honeycomb tiled floor pays tribute bygone era in classic Chicago design. Then, take into account the rustic interior, the light-filled space, the large meat slicer behind the counter&#8230; Step into Lardon is like stepping through time, and eating at Lardon is witnessing an old craft passed down from chef to chef reviving and evolving in a modern world with your tastebuds.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_405409\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-405409\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-405409 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DSC02022-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"sliced coppa\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1076\" srcset=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DSC02022-scaled.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DSC02022-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DSC02022-2000x1121.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DSC02022-1536x861.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DSC02022-2048x1148.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DSC02022-370x207.jpg 370w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DSC02022-842x472.jpg 842w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DSC02022-406x228.jpg 406w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DSC02022-600x336.jpg 600w, https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/DSC02022-270x152.jpg 270w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-405409\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image Credit: UrbanMatter Chicago<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>Featured Menu Items<\/h2>\n<p>We asked Chef Chris Thompson what he would recommend if he were a diner at Lardon, and here are the recommendations coming from the man himself!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Coppa (Chef&#8217;s Favorite!)<\/strong>: a beautiful expression of spice. The subtle taste focuses on the full flavor of high-quality pork, allowing the ingredient to be the star it deserves to be.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Finocchiona<\/strong>: The licorice characteristics you get from the wild fennel are the biggest surprise with the Finocchiona. Pairing with big juicy red wines of the salami, the Finocchiona is a dance between lightness and richness, texture and flavor, and will completely sweep your tastebuds off their feet.<\/li>\n<li><strong>\u2018Nduja<\/strong>: Instead of using bits of fat and bits of lean from the pig, Lardon&#8217;s &#8216;Nduja is made using entirely out of pork belly. The team let mother nature do the ratio instead of setting one themselves. The dish also uses unique house spices made from peppers team Lardon grounds down right there in the restaurant. Chef Thompson first came across these pepper during his days in California, then went all the way to Italy to seek it out.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Saucission de Campagne<\/strong>: The recipe came from a 1970s meat curing book, a French cookbook translated to English in the 70s. Then, Chef Thompson adjusted the recipe and this is the first time he&#8217;s making the Saucission de Campagne at Lardon. 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