Chicago

The Rise of the Food and Drink Amusement Park

The modern multi-concept hotel takes a more-is-more approach to dining and drinking.

• story: Christopher Ross
• photos: Lizzie Munro

Bar Review: A Sports Bar for the One Percent

Mordecai, located across from one of baseball’s most famous parks, has assembled one of the country’s most ambitious collections of rare spirits. But who is it for, exactly?

• story: Robert Simonson
• photos: Lyndon French

Chasing “Dusties” with America’s Top Rare Spirits Hunter

If you need to source a collection of vintage whiskey or amaro—and fast—Alex Bachman is the guy to call.

• story: Aaron Goldfarb
• photos: Lyndon French

Bar Review: Jim Meehan’s Ambitious Act Two

Just over ten years since opening the pioneering PDT, Jim Meehan returns with Prairie School, a high-concept bar inspired by architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

• story: Robert Simonson
• photos: Hilary Higgins

Inside the Wine Cellar at Chicago’s Parachute

Beverage director Matty Colston on the five wines that define his unorthodox list.

• story: Megan Krigbaum
• photos: Nick Murway

Paul McGee | Co-Owner, Lost Lake

Paul McGee is one of few bartenders to maintain equal footing in both a classical and tiki approach to drink-making. As the beverage director for Land and Sea Dept., McGee helms…

Hala Kahiki

The Midwest’s oldest existing tiki bar, which contains one of the world’s largest collections of tiki artifacts.

Inside One of the Midwest’s Oldest Tiki Bars

Opened by a pair of former funeral home owners in 1964, Chicago's Hala Kahiki Lounge is one of the oldest and most notable tiki bars in the country.

• story: Amy C. Collins
• photos: Nick Murway