Sean Parnell’s Chicago bar project has recently added the
Best of Chicago Bars 2002 . I agree with all his choices, although I would have added Celtic Crossing to the Best Irish Pub list.
Gaper’s Block has two recent bar features:
Searching for the True Chicago Dive Not only is this a nice peice of cultural research, it’s a glimpse into a world no hipster would ever dare to tread. By the Wiz of Odds.
Tapped Out Another nice research piece on tap rooms – “Tap rooms, even the nicest ones, are about drinking and nothing but. Which makes them, in this day and age, something of an anomaly, if not an outright anachronism.”