Sometimes when I come back from a trip I feel that I missed a thousand things to do and I come back with that feeling that the time didn't give up at all. That happened to me last month when I spent a week in Chicago, but judging by what I have written in Hive about what I did on the 19th of April it seems that I made the most of that day.
I started with a ride on the L in Chicago's Loop followed by a little walk at Chicago's Riverwalk. Then, I did a nice walk with my son from the Loop to Lake Michigan through Grant Park and from there, we went by subway to Lincoln Park to meet my husband. But as we still had some time before meeting my husband to attend the Chicago Latino Film Festival, we decided to stop for a coffee. So let me share a bit of the nice coffee shop we visited with you, the coffee lovers community in Hive.
After our walk in Grant Park, my son and I took the red L line to the north of the city and got off at the Fullerton station in the Lincoln Park area. We walked through some residential streets that I thought were beautiful to N Clark St.
I had mentioned to him that I had seen on Instagram a very cool cafe in this area that had a dog theme and he immediately told me that he knew which one it was because that cafe was a friend of his favorite, so we headed there. The cafe is called Ludlow Charlingtons Coffee Shop.
It is a small neighborhood cafe, which I actually prefer to the well-known chains. We were lucky to get there about half an hour before closing time because they close early, at 4 pm.
The menu had the classic coffee shop options and a few specials. I ordered a Cappuccino and my son ordered one of the specials, a Maple Latte.
The coffee was good, nothing extraordinary to be honest. I found the Maple Latte a bit sweet. But the best thing about the coffee shop was the portraits of dogs on the walls.
These are portraits of dogs dressed in period costumes and inspired by the dogs at a shelter that the owners of the coffee shop support with the proceeds from the coffee shop's merchandising.
They also promote the adoption of shelter dogs. And some of those dogs adopted through their work are the inspiration for some of the portraits.
The site was super cool and with a great cause.
We had our coffees and couldn't stay long because they were closing, but it's the kind of coffee shop that I'd like to have in my neighborhood.
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