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C-View | Gold Coast, Chicago
If you were to take the bar at the Hancock, shrink it by 75%, lower it 500 feet, knock 25% of the cost of a drink, update the decor to be more light and hip instead of heavy and 1980, and add a patio, you’d get C-View.
This place has all of the makings of a terrible bar — touristy location, elevator access, painful name (Get it? It’s like a sea view and a city view, man.) — and manages to NOT suck, because it also has all of the makings of a great bar — nice views, good drinks, reasonable prices, a patio, and a good staff. Sure some marketing team may have dreamt up the dumb name, but the staff realizes it’s just a bar. While some bartenders seem to think you’re ordering a drink to stroke their egos, C-View’s realizes that you’re there for a drink. That is truly refreshing.
I look forward to returning when it’s warm.