Tea and croissant at Standard Market

My mom is visiting from Kansas City and I always struggle with little adventures that are easy for us to handle with the kids in tow. Add some Chicago snow and ice and that adds another layer of complexity. 

However, Abe's preschool nativity play was yesterday afternoon and my mom and I had a small pocket of free time after the play concluded but before we needed to pick up kids from school. I wanted to take advantage of the weather because more snow is expected on Sunday. It will definitely be a white Christmas...

We made a quick drive to Standard Market in Westmont, a neighboring suburb. This is a high end grocery store with a restaurant and I thought we could grab a cup of tea/coffee and maybe a pastry there.

Standard Market opened a couple of years ago. It's very clean and white and actually looks like a giant gray and white barn from the outside. They have all your standard grocery items but then specialty wines and cheeses and a pastry shop. It's very visually stunning. Lots of white. The colors of the food really pop against the background.

The Standard Grill restaurant has a limited but nice menu. Think organic grass-fed burgers and fancy milk shakes. We ordered pastries at the pastry shop and then just placed drink orders in the restaurant.

My mom ordered a blueberry streusel muffin and I got a chocolate croissant. I have a chocolate croissant habit developing, I fear.

My english breakfast tea came in the cutest little cup with a lid that allowed the "tag" or in this case the leaf, to stick out. It was cute enough to take a picture of. 

It was a quick outing and then we were back for school pick-up. I grabbed some Anchor Brewing Christmas Ale for Mike to try. And my mom spotted a pomegranate tart that looked good. I don't know what my Christmas Eve or Christmas meal plan is quite yet. So I may be back at Standard Market soon.