{"id":3687,"date":"2014-08-19T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T13:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/?p=3687"},"modified":"2014-08-27T03:00:43","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T07:00:43","slug":"chicago-uptons-naturals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meshell.ca\/blog\/chicago-uptons-naturals\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago – Upton’s Naturals"},"content":{"rendered":"

After a lovely day of exploring Chicago’s Magnificent Mile and a wonderful meal at The Lobby<\/a>, we planned a more casual day of wandering around for our last full day in Chicago. First stop – Upton’s Breakroom<\/a> for lunch and the Ukrainian Village & Wicker Park neighbourhood to look around.<\/p>\n

It was the first time we took a bus in Chicago. Those magic Ventra transit cards are pretty great (at least from a tourist perspective) – multiple forms of transit, one pass. There is probably a better way, especially considering how hot that day was, but it worked.<\/p>\n

We walked for about 15 minutes and\u00a0just as we started to wonder if we’d missed it somewhere along the way, we saw the newly added Upton’s Breakroom signage, and wandered in.<\/p>\n

\"Upton's<\/a><\/p>\n

As you can see, there is a bus that conveniently stops right in front of Upton’s Breakroom. We didn’t take that one. Of course, we didn’t take that one.<\/p>\n

We ordered a whole bunch of delicious stuff, and as we ate, it became apparent that it was (at least unofficially) the breakroom of the attached Upton’s Factory as folks from inside came into the place for lunch or a snack or a break or a drink.<\/p>\n

\"Upton's<\/a><\/p>\n

I’ve eaten Upton’s Breakroom products stuff before in the early days – probably at their popup sandwich shop at Food Fight during the first Vida Vegan Con, but more recently we’ve sampled their prepackaged goods at Whole Foods locations in the North East\/North Central USA (like in Michigan, Illinois, Minnesota.)<\/p>\n