Logan Square Pantry

They don’t have dog food but have about 10 types of cat food… What? But a good beer selection and always friendly.

Well, I’ve dropped into the LSP a few more times since my last review and I must say that each time was definitely pleasant. Nothing to freak out and applaud out loud about, but definitely high enough to up it by a star.
And Enrique is cute. He can be my hero any day. ;)

This place saves me when I’m out of cat food or need a tums before a hot date. Or tampons. Or booze. But I must say if there was a nicer place closer to home i’d take advantage.

Perfectly agreeable little pantry store where stuff like beer is concerned, but damned if I will eat any of the dry goods stocked on the shelves there. For example, I decided to slum it and get a couple of those maruchan soups, and when I got home noticed both of them had holes gnawed in the bottom by god knows what. That said, their selection of beer, sodas, and whatnot is purty decent.

It’s no Bucktown Food & Liquor, but reasonable selection, fresh avocados, limes (if they like you, they’ll toss some extras in the bag for free) and tortillas, friendly staff, and they didn’t laugh at me when I asked for Chelada (which VAS doesn’t carry — why?).
Nope, they sure didn’t — they sent someone in back to grab a bunch for me and told me that they had a couple the night before too. Made me feel better about my love of beer mixed with Clamato, it sure did. Mmmmm… Chelada.

not as great as the vas, BUT… vas foremost requires a ten dollar minimum to pay with a card, while the pantry is only five. ergo, logan square pantry is the better place to buy cheap beer when you have no cash.

I like this place. I like this place a lot. I came here solely because I needed a lighter. Not just any lighter, but a bic lighter, because I really dislike those clear plastic ones that sometimes say «Classic» on the top. See, my usual beer-​and-​cigarette stop is Foremost, right across the street, but they only sell the cut rate clear lighters. So to the Pantry I went.
Its not like the beer selection is bad; in fact, for the size of the space, the selection is good. If you don’t want to think about it too much, or your good beer for the night does not involve pondering over many continents (and it doesn’t have to), then this is fine. Plus bic lighters. Plus 2-​for-​1 deals on Camel cigarettes; Foremost doesn’t seem to run specials. One star off for the lack of Ritter Sport chocolate selection, but this might just me comparing the Pantry to Foremost when I shouldn’t.
Though, if I did give a fifth star it would be for this — on my way out I spied small, 18-​load (small?! yes, that’s small these days) laundry detergents, including my personal favorite, Gain. I might need to browse their limited aisles further and see if I can find anything else highly useful, highly portable, and super close to my apartment.

This place is right across the street from my old apartment and saved my ass many a time when I was out of something and didn’t want to drive to the store. The prices are a little higher than the grocery store, but it’s not a surprise. The people who work here are really nice and they have a decent selection of your usual convenience store goods including beer. They also have an ATM. I used to go here when I needed to buy some quick 20oz diet cokes on the way to the movies.