Omnivore - Breakfast at Octane and Little Tart Bakeshop
Come and get your local bacon scone
Happiness is breakfast at Octane in Grant Park — the city’s best espresso with a cheddar-bacon scone from the Little Tart Bakeshop.
The scone’s bacon, I was assured by an employee, was from a local supplier.
“Where might these pigs have lived?” I asked. “Somewhere close, right?”
“I don’t know exactly, but yeah,” she said.
Sarah O’Brien, co-owner of the bakery, is in fact all about locally sourced ingredients. Here’s a video in which she talks about her motivations.