Blog Business Lunch

At our very important blog business lunch in the Financial District last week Erik and I have decided to blog all the diners, cafes, and restaurants inside historically significant buildings, like the Pittsfield (there can't be THAT many can there?).

Case in point: Cavanaugh's. It's located mid-block within the glorious 1891 Monadnock building, the tallest load-bearing masonry building in the world. Unfortunately it's in the "atmosphere over food" category.


Go to admire the dark wood bar, the Monadnock's cast aluminum stairways- the first of their kind ever made; the cobbler that still uses hand crank tools; the ridiculously expensive Milliner; the custom suit maker, the old men sitting at the barbershop, and the cute guys at Intelligentsia and the architecture firms that populate the building. You can't lose.

Cavanaugh's has a second entrance on Federal Street, one of the Loop's many 'alley-streets'. Check out the the chapel-like structure and its scary heads across the street. It was once a restaurant named after the patron saint of hunters, St. Hubert.

Rating, each category out of 5:

Taste           * *

Value           *  
Atmosphere  * * * * *
Service         * * * * 

Links: Cavanaugh's Website, Yelp