some of my favorite to-go cozy cocktail lounges and bars in Chicago. too many of them coincidentally happen to be related to a emotional roller-coaster of a situationship, but all of them I would absolutely return to for the drinks despite whatever m...
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this rum-based cocktail lounge in the heart of the Gold Coast is the place for repeat first dates or service industry workers needed to regroup after a harrowing shift. I was a part of the second group. it was my team’s number 2 spot (after Dublin’s,...
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the first time I went to the 1960s Parisian-inspired bisous, I was fairly new to the whole cocktail scene in chicago and was guided by the recommendation of my service industry friends, with whom I’d been on a several hour luxury dining-and-drinking ...
this is the cafe/bar I first went to with my 1.5 year long situationship after we started officially really dating (before we broke up less than two weeks later). it’s like a time machine to some gentlemen’s office in the early years of America, with...
