All Craft Cocktails

Recommended Craft Cocktailss

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  American
  Allium Gold Coast/Mag Mile/Streeterville  1
  The former Seasons, now morphed into the more casual Allium, retains chef Kevin Hickey, who offers a farm-to-table menu of elevated bar snacks. Pricey drinks include homemade soda, a craft cocktail list, and an embarrassment of wines and American whiskeys. »
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  Bar/Lounge
  The Aviary Fulton Market
  There are plenty of cocktails to marvel at while visiting Grant Achatz’s and Nick Kokonas’s cocktail lounge, and in general they’re well balanced and delicious. But that’s not why you came. Often the flavor and balance are subordinate to some »
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  Bar/Lounge
  The Bad Apple North Center
  This spacious three-room bar always seems to be at least a little crowded, even at what ought to be dead hours, and it's not hard to see why—it has great burgers (I've heard it described as "Kuma's without the wait"), »
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  Bar/Lounge
  Barrelhouse Flat Lincoln Park
  The deliciously overwhelming cocktail list is a nod to the voluminous offerings over at the Violet Hour, where Barrelhouse partner Stephen Cole spent countless hours muddling and tincturing. The pedigree of both Cole and general manager Greg Buttera, formerly of »
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  Bar/Lounge
  Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bar Bridgeport
  In August of 2010 arts raconteur Ed Marszewski transformed his mother's packaged-goods bar into one of the city's premier watering holes for international craft beers and whiskeys. The bar offers more than 450 brews in bottles and on tap, along »
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  Craft Cocktails
  Scofflaw Logan Square
  A rebellious mix of the baroque and the affordable, Scofflaw makes a perfect square of Logan Square's premier cocktail destinations (Lula, Longman & Eagle, the Whistler). Head mixologist and co-owner Danny Shapiro has mixed more than his fair share of »
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  Bar/Lounge
  Simone's Pilsen/Little Village
  This resto-pub is a poster child for repurposed materials—benches in each booth were constructed from old safety belts, chandeliers are industrial clusters of mismatched lamps, wood was reclaimed from Westinghouse High School—but the drinks and food transcend the spectacle. American »
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  Bar/Lounge
  The Violet Hour Wicker Park/Bucktown
  Between its reputation as the cradle of modern mixology in Chicago, the painfully obscure pseudo-speakeasy exterior, and the weirdly funereal interior, there's a certain intimidation factor to overcome with the Violet Hour. It's worth getting over, though, because the craft »
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  Bar/Lounge
  Watershed River North
  The jazz lounge once housed in the basement of Pops for Champagne has been transformed into Watershed, a dim, nautically themed suburban home barroom circa 1976—a setting for events as diverse as after-tennis cocktails, key parties, and teenage booze raids. »
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  Craft Cocktails
  Weegee's Lounge Logan Square
  Aside from offering an expertly prepared gin rickey, sidecar, and old-fashioned, this joint is arguably the most tolerable locale with a shuffleboard table in the city. Located off the Logan Square beaten path of cool, the dimly lit, rarely too »
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  Music venue
  The Whistler Logan Square
  Part storefront art installation, part eclectic music venue (and record label), mostly craft-cocktail mecca, the Whistler is a Chicago destination, forget about neighborhood spot. Just don’t let the Friday- and Saturday-night lines deter you from visiting at more reasonable hours. »

All Craft Cocktails

• • Ada St.

    1664 N. Ada Street

    Chicago, IL, 60642

    773-697-7069
  • Big Star

    1531 N. Damen Ave.

    Chicago, IL, 60622

    773-235-4039
  • The Drawing Room

    937 N. Rush St.

    Chicago, IL, 60611-1422

    312-255-0022
• • Joie de Vine

    1744 W. Balmoral Ave.

    Chicago, IL, 60640-1124

    773-989-6846
  • Longman & Eagle

    2657 N. Kedzie

    Chicago, IL, 60647

    773-276-7110
  • Sable Kitchen & Bar

    505 N. State St.

    Chicago, IL, 60654

    312-755-9704