There’s a flurry of action under the El tracks on Lake Street as husband-and-wife team Mark and Elizabeth Mendez—both formerly of Carnivale, where he was the executive chef and she was the wine director—prepare to open their new Spanish-inspired wine bar, Vera, at the address that last housed the short-lived Addiction Sports Bar…
DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH?: A new nightlife compound aims to clean up Wrigleyville’s act (good luck with that)
& How
When their kids were on a play date, Lisa Fosler Kelly and Jennifer Wisniewski discovered they shared the dream of opening a wine bar…
With the second reinvention of the legendary bar officially happening today, a look back at where the legend came from, courtesy of Rick Kogan. Plus: Rick Telander on Rush Street circa 1988, and a tour of Chicago nightlife at the end of the ’80s.
Hot on the heels of our intrepid reporter’s weeknight visit to 120 Degrees Ultra Lounge, the new spot on the ground floor of Lake Point Tower, we sent a photographer back to the bar to check out the weekend action…
It may always hit 90 degrees in Dallas in October, but if this were a different kind of fall week here in Chicago, the Texas import III Forks might not have been able to test-drive its rooftop lounge at all…
O Say Can You See
Sports bars have a certain sameness to them—greasy fried food, beer, and lots of big TVs…
THE BUZZ: West on North, BLT American Brasserie, Butcher and the Burger
On Saturday afternoon, the Lake View bar and music room Schubas laid out a multicourse spread: cheap rum cocktails, crates and boxes and bins of new and used records and CDs for sale…
Chicago’s most-buzzed-about restaurants this month
