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Telegram Sam's family owns it.

Also, good call on Blackwood. I tried it this morning. I'm not a huge BBQ guy, but it was pretty good. I'll definitely make it part of my regular rotation.

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Really, that's cool. CSFMB discount????



I like BBQ, but not for breakfast. What did you have?

Burger joint on Irving Park. Was on Check Please over the weekend, looks really good.

Anyone here been?


http://www.leadbellyburgers.com/

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Went to their location in Lincoln, NE two weeks ago.

Thought it was real good.

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The victims are the American People and the Republic itself.

It's more fun to be a victim

There will never be an effective vaccine. I'll never get one anyway.

I realized no one answered this, and I'm obviously biased, but you should check it out, shakes. It's pretty good. It's more a pub-style burger, as opposed to the thin griddle patties (I know you didn't care for Edzo's) Everything that can be done scratch is. The bread is baked in house, the meat is ground there (blend of choice chuck, smoked pork belly, and salt and pepper - that's it.), all the sauces, etc. Very respectable beer list for a burger joint (http://www.beermenus.com, both locations are on there) Its a 7-8 oz burger, whereas Kuma's is 10 or 14 oz I think. The location on Irving only holds 30-32 people, (it was basically a carryout pizza joint when they bought it.) There are 6 tables and some rail seating. There is usually a wait during peak times (Fri/Sat 5p-8p) and it feels crowded. The second location on Milwaukee is a bit larger, and laid out a little better, i.e. there are 2-top tables so 2 groups of 2 or 6 don't monopolize a lot of table space.

The big takeaway a lot of people have is the bread. There is something singular in the experience of eating a burger served on bread made that day. (Kevin Pang from the Trib wrote a nice piece about it here.) That, and, for a counter service operation, the service is very good. The Milwaukee location is also open for lunch. If you're still around Elston and Addison, you can shoot up Elston practically the whole way.

Oh, and we count The Affordable Dave Miska among our celebrity clientele.

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

I realized no one answered this, and I'm obviously biased, but you should check it out, shakes. It's pretty good. It's more a pub-style burger, as opposed to the thin griddle patties (I know you didn't care for Edzo's) Everything that can be done scratch is. The bread is baked in house, the meat is ground there (blend of choice chuck, smoked pork belly, and salt and pepper - that's it.), all the sauces, etc. Very respectable beer list for a burger joint (http://www.beermenus.com, both locations are on there) Its a 7-8 oz burger, whereas Kuma's is 10 or 14 oz I think. The location on Irving only holds 30-32 people, (it was basically a carryout pizza joint when they bought it.) There are 6 tables and some rail seating. There is usually a wait during peak times (Fri/Sat 5p-8p) and it feels crowded. The second location on Milwaukee is a bit larger, and laid out a little better, i.e. there are 2-top tables so 2 groups of 2 or 6 don't monopolize a lot of table space.

The big takeaway a lot of people have is the bread. There is something singular in the experience of eating a burger served on bread made that day. (Kevin Pang from the Trib wrote a nice piece about it here.) That, and, for a counter service operation, the service is very good. The Milwaukee location is also open for lunch. If you're still around Elston and Addison, you can shoot up Elston practically the whole way.

Oh, and we count The Affordable Dave Miska among our celebrity clientele.

Trae Young will be a bust. Book It!

I've heard good things about Leadbelly, but the combination of pork belly and ground chuck seems odd to me. Is it common for restaurants to use pork in their burgers?

Trae Young will be a bust. Book It!

Trae Young will be a bust. Book It!

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Leadbelly Burgers Changes Name After Lead Belly the Bluesman's Kin Object

Leadbelly Burgers is now BRGRBelly after the estate of Huddie William Ledbetter sued the restaurant. Leadbelly Burgers is now BRGRBelly after the estate of Huddie William Ledbetter sued the restaurant. View Full Caption BRGRBelly
GLADSTONE PARK — Leadbelly, the Northwest Side burger chain best known for its gourmet burgers, craft beers and boozy shakes has a new name after a lengthy legal battle with the estate of the legendary blues musician that it was meant to honor, the owners said.

Leadbelly Burgers — named to pay homage to the King of the 12-string guitar Huddie William "Lead Belly" Ledbetter — is now BRGRbelly, owner Steve O'Brien said Tuesday.

"It is kind of sad," O'Brien said Tuesday. "We wanted to spread his legacy. We didn't want to profit from his name."

The name change will be the only thing different about the restaurant, which has locations in Portage Park and in Gladstone Park. Plans are in the works to open a third eatery this fall in Jefferson Park, O'Brien said.



"It will be a whole new concept," O'Brien said, declining to reveal more details or the location until plans are finalized.

The Portage Park restaurant, at 5739 W. Irving Park Road, was an instant hit when O'Brien and his wife Nicole Masse O'Brien opened it in March 2013 in an area of the Northwest Side with few trendy restaurants.

Its burgers were lauded by Chicago Magazine, the Chicago Reader and Chicagoist as some of the best in Chicago.

A second location in Gladstone Park at 5691 N. Milwaukee Ave. opened a year later — and caught the attention of the musician's estate, which asked O'Brien to pay royalties for the use of Ledbetter's nickname, for which the estate owns the trademark.

Tanya Singh, the executive director of the Leadbelly Foundation, said the O'Briens never asked the family for permission to use the musician's name, and refused to pay royalties for its use.

Terika Dean, Ledbetter's great-great niece and the administrator of his estate, did not respond to phone and email messages left Tuesday afternoon.

Ledbetter enjoyed a spurt of attention earlier this year, when the Smithsonian released a five-disc set designed to document his "monumental, sprawling career" and a tribute concert took place in April, according to the New York Times.

"We offered a settlement, but didn't hear back," O'Brien said. "Then six or seven months ago, we got another demand for royalties, and what they were asking for was excessive."

O'Brien said he countered with a "fair offer" to pay a yearly fee to use the name, but the estate rejected it.

"We felt strongly that they had no case," O'Brien said, adding that there could be no confusion between burgers and blues music. "But the legal fees were escalating."

Unwilling to take a chance in court, O'Brien said he reluctantly decided to change the restaurant's name.

"We didn't want to, but we had no choice," O'Brien said.

The menu items, which were named after Lead Belly's songs, won't be renamed, O'Brien said.

The walls of both eateries are covered with pictures of musicians like Kurt Cobain, Neil Young, Bob Dylan and the Beatles — all of whom were inspired by Ledbetter and, in some cases, covered his songs. Rock videos featuring music inspired by Leadbelly play on flat-screen televisions as diners unhinge their jaws to wolf down the massive burgers.

O'Brien said he and his wife considered changing the name to something else inspired by the music they love, but came up empty handed.

"We've got the trademark for BRGRbelly," O'Brien said. "We didn't want this to happen again."

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The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Good for them....Niece trying to suck all she can out of her granduncles name? and a lawyer looking to make some money.

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The estate didn't seek out the lawyer. The lawyer sought out the estate.

Even worse, but I did feel some poor judgement was in effect here.

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