There are some 38 uninhabited islands in Norway,* and three in Humboldt Park. Of course, there are the two in the Lagoon, but these days Ørkenoy—the two-year-old Nordic-inspired brewery, cocktail bar, and restaurant—is “deserted” in name only. (The word is a rough mash-up of two Norwegian words: ørken, for desert, and oy, for island.) But […]
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Best reason for a fully vaxxed and boosted person to raise their mask and a glass
Windy City Playhouse It’s no secret that theater companies (and movie theaters) make a lot of their profits at the concession stand. So curating themed cocktails is not that uncommon for theater spaces around Chicago. However, there is one location that has made their drink menu as iconic as their immersive work—Windy City Playhouse. Not […]
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Nobody’s Darling is for everyone
When longtime friends Angela Barnes and Renauda Riddle decided to open up a high-end cocktail bar in Andersonville, they never predicted the enthusiastic fervor that would follow. Just months after opening, Nobody’s Darling has enjoyed a word-of-mouth popularity usually reserved for the main Boystown or Andersonville thoroughfares, ones that reflect the current culture in the […]
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Drown your regrets in Nick Kokonas’s Something & Tonic
The longtime bartender is hosting a release party for his historical cocktail book devoted to the “most iconic mixer in the world.”
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Kit brings the bar to you
The newly opened small business offers professional quality bar tools and local expertise.
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Build your own Chicago bar cart
The at-home bar cart starter kit that supports local businesses
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Quarantinis delivered
Here’s where you can get to-go cocktails around Chicago.
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The Reader’s stay-at-home chronicles: day 39
What we’re reading, watching, listening to, etc., to pass the time.
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Flight Club Darts Chicago is a flight of fancy
Raw oysters, rosé cotton candy, hookah-smoking sloths, and darts—what more could you and your Anglophile friends ask for?
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Radio Anago is Brendan Sodikoff’s sushi cave under the deep dark sea …
Hogsalt Hospitality takes a pure, respectful approach to fish amid River North’s culinary cliches.
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Old Habits is bar food reborn
The kitchen at Avondale’s Ludlow Liquors is so good it gets its own name.
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The Warbler sings its song for every kind of eater
Stop the presses: there’s an interesting new spot in Lincoln Square
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Beatnik’s cocktails provide an international vacation in a glass in West Town
Boho-swank decor and cocktails with ingredients from around the world give Beatnik a Mediterranean flair.
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Park & Field’s patio takes outdoor drinking to another level
The new 6,000-square-foot patio boasts bocce courts, a camper bar, a fire pit—and some underwhelming food and drink offerings.
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The newly renovated Davis Theater is a vaudeville house for the 21st century
More than a movie theater, the newly renovated “entertainment complex” will host a series of community events, including a live Oscar viewing party in support of Common Threads.