Bavette’s Bar & Boeuf

Step up to the bar in the decadent main room at Bavette’s and it’s not difficult to imagine what Chicago might have been like in the 1920s or ’30s. Most nights soft jazz croons over the speakers while vested bartenders inquire about your Martini preference and suited men converse in the overstuffed leather booths that line the walls. Drinks are divided into categories like “sparkling,” “classics” and “Old-Fashioneds,” all of which match Bavette’s penchant for channeling the bygone.