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If you’ve seen Cookies & Carnitas at the Green City Market, you know that they’ve been selling things like tacos and porchetta sandwiches made with Becker Lane pork from Iowa artisanal farmer Jude Becker for the last couple of years. At the market the point is to get people to try Becker’s superior pork in an accessible form. But in their shop, which opened two weeks ago at 5757 N. Broadway, the point is simply to make food well, and using the farmers from the market is because that’s what the chefs believe in, not because it would help justify a price point.
Besides the main dining room, next week they’ll open the other side of their storefront—a coffee bar serving coffee from a local roaster, Sparrow. They’ll be the first coffee shop offering it (it’s only in restaurants now). They’ll also step up their baking operation (the Cookies part of the name) to offer baked goods on that side, as well as selling the quality ingredients they use at retail.
- Michael Gebert
Cookies & Carnitas, 5759-59 N. Broadway, 773-769-2900
