A versatile butcher's rub rooted in Chicago's historic meatpacking district that enhances grilling, burgers, fish, and eggs with a flavorful, coarse spice mix.
If one flavor combination could represent The Spice House, it is this hard-working butcher's rub. Back of the Yards, our most popular blend, is ideal for grilling, great in burgers, and perfect with fish or eggs. It takes inspiration from the many immigrant cooking traditions that grew out of Chicago's historic meatpacking district.
Lakeshore Shallot & Herb
A sophisticated seasoning blend featuring chives, scallions, and shallots, ideal for enhancing fish, omelettes, vegetables, or for crafting a delicious salad dressing.
Inspired by Lake Michigan’s glorious and green shoreline, this blend includes chives, scallions, green peppercorns, and shallots. Use this to add an elegant but bold finish to fish, omelettes, and vegetables. Make a delicious salad dressing by mixing to taste with lemon juice, mustard, and oil.
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Previously Named: Lake Shore Drive Shallot & Herb Seasoning
Milwaukee Avenue Smokehouse Rub
A smoky, sweet seasoning blend inspired by Polish heritage, perfect for enhancing the flavors of burgers, steaks, chops, jerky, tofu, and veggie burgers with classic Old Country notes of paprika, garlic, marjoram, and black pepper.
Our Milwaukee Avenue Smokehouse Rub is smoky, sweet, and replete with marjoram, garlic, black pepper, and paprika. Apply it Chicago-style that is to say, liberally to burgers, steaks, chops, and jerky. Don t tell your Polish babcia, but it is also great on tofu and veggie burgers.
Argyle Street Stir Fry Blend
A Vietnamese-inspired spice blend featuring lemongrass, ginger, cilantro, garlic, and chili pepper ideal for stir-fries, cold noodle salads, and seasoning chicken, fish, sushi, or spring rolls.
Ideal for a weeknight stir fry, this blend brings together the staples of Southeast Asian flavors: lemongrass, ginger, cilantro, garlic, and chili pepper. Flash fry in your wok before adding vegetables and proteins to release this blend full flavor. Or sprinkle some on a cold noodle salad.
Taylor Street Garlic & Herb Seasoning
A versatile seasoning blend perfect for making delicious garlic bread with flavors of garlic, butter, and Romano cheese, inspired by Italian culinary traditions.
Garlic bread is a staple at trattorias everywhere, from San Francisco's North Beach to New York's Little Italy. Laden with garlic, butter, and Romano cheese, it is always a fan favorite. To make your own, slather butter or olive oil generously on Italian bread sliced lengthwise, shake on some of this seasoning, then bake.
Bronzeville Southern Rib Rub
This spice blend, inspired by Southern migrants to Chicago's Bronzeville, enhances ribs, pork roasts, chicken, and duck with its tangy flavors, and can also create a spicy barbecue sauce when mixed with ketchup or tomato sauce.
We developed this rub to honor the Southerners who moved to Chicago in the 1920s, '30s, and '40s. Among the traditions they carried north was a tangy preparation for baby back ribs. Whether you crave ribs, a pork roast, chicken, or duck, this dry rub brings the flavor down home.
Greektown Mediterranean Seasoning
A versatile Greek-inspired seasoning featuring oregano, garlic, and lemon peel, perfect for enhancing roasted chicken and kebabs with a salt-forward flavor that crisps chicken skin well.
As delicious on shish kebab as it is on roasted chicken, this blend combines Greek oregano, garlic, and lemon peel. It is salt-forward, which helps it dry and crisp chicken skin to perfection. Use less on skinless meats.
Pilsen Spicy Adobo Seasoning
A flavorful adobo-style spice blend with garlic, onion, black pepper, cumin, and Mexican oregano, enhanced with crushed red chile peppers, ideal for seasoning meats, enhancing salsas, or adding to guacamole.
A mix of onion and garlic powders, black peppercorns, cumin and Mexican oregano, adobo is a flavorful seasoning for meats and vegetables. Originally used in Spain and Portugal to conserve meat, today Uruguayans use it in mojo sauce, Mexicans in puerco Yucateco, and it is also the first dish every Filipino cook learns to make.