🥐 Breakfast for dinner at the 100th Monday Night Foodball

Check out classic French pastry with novel riffs at Ludlow Liquors! [READER]( [Food & Drink]( January 12, 2024 The late chef Michael Altenberg gave Angel Chavez his first restaurant job at 18, running French classics like soupe à l'oignon and moules meunières from the kitchen to the dining room at Lincoln Square’s Bistro Campagne. Chavez, who’s 32, has more or less been head pastry chef there ever since. That’s where he was working when COVID struck, and he returned to Lincoln Square where the neighborhood mainstay never shut down. It also allowed him to open Au Levain Bakery, which turned out to be one of the most enduring [pastry porn]( pop-ups of the pandemic, selling classic French pastry with novel riffs every Sunday—currently out of the window at neighboring Due Lire. Right now, Chavez is a pâte feuilletée lamination away from inking a lease on his own neighborhood brick-and-mortar, while continuing to caramelize the creme brulee for Bistro Campagne. But that’s not before Au Levain Bakery arises at the next [Monday Night Foodball]( the Reader’s weekly chef pop-up at Ludlow Liquors. On this, the 100th Foodball in our illustrious history—and what’s shaping up to be the coldest night of the year—Chavez is bringing some of his sweet and savory greatest hits, including a bacon-loaded quiche lorraine and his signature Au Levain quiche with butternut squash, roasted Brussels sprouts, and Brie. He’s also got a chorizo Danish with roasted poblano cream, queso panela, and a citrus-cured salmon Danish with salmon roe. On the sweet side, there’s a jiggly, creamy burnt Basque cheesecake with wine-poached pears drizzled in cajeta; a chocolate espresso cream pie; and a devastating Parisian l’escargot, mollusk-shaped croissant dough swirled with chocolate and pistachio pastry cream. Come out to the 100th Foodball in our glorious history beginning at 5:30 PM this Monday, January 15, at 2959 N. California in laminated Avondale. Meanwhile, goggle the full 2024 winter Foodball lineup: [Au Levain Bakery rises at the 100th Monday Night Foodball]( Check out Bistro Campagne’s Angel Chavez’s sweet and savory neoclassical French pastries at the Reader’s weekly chef pop-up at Ludlow Liquors. by [Mike Sula]( | [Read more]( → [OURS enters the Illinois cannabis market as one of few Black-owned companies to make it that far]( Organic Urban Revitalization Solutions is collaborating with Nature’s Grace to create mushroom and cannabinoid–infused chocolate bars. by [Mike Sula]( | [Read more]( → September 2021 [Nobody’s Darling is for everyone]( The Black- and queer-owned space in Andersonville serves cocktails for the city’s “outcasts.” by [Adam M. Rhodes]( | [Read more]( → May 2017 [South-side picnicking done right]( A guide to eating outside below Madison Street by [Michael Gebert]( | [Read more]( → [Issue of Jan. 11 - 24, 2024 Vol. 53, No. 7]( [VIEW/DOWNLOAD ISSUE (PDF)]( [View this e-mail as a web page]( [@chicago_reader]( [/chicagoreader]( [@chicago_reader]( [Chicago Reader on LinkedIn]( [/chicagoreader]( [chicagoreader.com]( [Forward this e-mail to a friend](. Want to change how you receive these e-mails? You can [update your preferences]( or [unsubscribe from this list](. Copyright © 2024 Chicago Reader, All rights reserved. You were subscribed to receive emails from Chicago Reader Our mailing address is: Chicago Reader, 2930 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 102, Chicago, IL 60616