Girl & The Goat: Chicago

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What can we say about this restaurant that is still one of the hardest reservations in town. We can start with thanking Kevin Boehm and Rob Katz for giving us the opportunity to create our very first restaurant in our own backyard. How great it is to not have to sit in a plane to see the progress at the job site but just to swing by, every day on our way to the office.

With food always being our greatest inspiration, Stephanie Izzard made it really easy for us. She told us her menu is bad-ass; check. She asked for layers; check. She also told us she was planning on having a wood burning oven. Did we hear wood burning? Check. Making sure that none of the action goes by unnoticed, we created an open kitchen with large shelves inspired by traditional cheese aging racks. We found the Victorian fireplaces hiding in a dusty corner behind a million of doors at Jan’s Antiques and thought they would be much better suited for housing liquor bottles behind the bar. We also rescued glass jars from a suburban basement and added some copper pipes to make them look like fancy pendants. Anna Wolfson came to make sure no drywall was left untreated and our friends at LG Development were there to try to make sense out of all these moving parts.