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Return to Rose’s | Lincoln Park, Chicago

By pdo | Published: August 20, 2009
I’m back after a long lull given the hype of my last post, and I order a Guinness.  $2.50, the bartender says.  My friend orders a Jack and Coke.  It’s $5, but ice is low, so the bartender knocks the price down to $4.  We put money down, he doesn’t take it.  Fine. Bartender rummages [...]
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B.L.U.E.S. | Chicago, IL

By pdo | Published: April 26, 2009
I’ve got the quit-making-out-in-front-of-me-and-rubbing-each-others’-legs-and-standing-up-from-your-stools-and-bumping-into-me-you-gross-old-people-from-the-suburbs-that-have-had-too-much-to-drink-and-should-just-get-a-room-and-I-know-that’s-what-you’re-thinking-because-I-just-saw-you-pop-a-Viagra blues.  Deh dah-dah dum dah-dum dah-dum … photo credit: swanksalot So I was feeling the blues, and Carlos Johnson spoke to my soul, though his actual blues source may have been different than mine.  Great band.  Good bar.  Attentive waitresses.  The crowd … The crowd was wild.  Seemed to be mostly [...]
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DOC Wine Bar | Lincoln Park, Chicago

By pdo | Published: March 28, 2009
Well, we had a good run, what can I say?  Too bad it had to end.  We’ve been patrons since it opened and were sometimes the only ones there some nights in its earlier days.  Took a little while for this place to catch on, what with its lack of flat-screen TVs and all.  But [...]
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Rose’s Lounge | Lincoln Park, Chicago

By pdo | Published: December 9, 2008
We arrive and there’s a elderly woman in the back muscling a huge trash bag out from behind the bar. Attempting to muscle is more accurate. There’s one other patron at the place. He notices what’s going on and says, “Rose, let me get that.” He grabs the bag, takes it out the back door, [...]
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Halligan Bar | Lincoln Park, Chicago

By Ben | Published: December 4, 2008
The memories are a little hazy, but I believe that during my bachelor party bar crawl we had most of this bar singing along to “Thank God I’m a Country Boy” by John Denver. I take that as a positive sign for a bar. Generally, it skews towards the post-college crowd. Good-looking bartenders too, which [...]
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Burwood Tap | Lincoln Park, Chicago

By pdo | Published: November 24, 2008
I hate this place. I cannot be more clear. I hate it more because it should be great. It should be a neighborhood bar with regulars in overalls and cheap beer and jovial, coarse barmaidens (with ample cleavage). It should be the place where your usual is getting poured as you walk in after work. [...]
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