Old Town Ale House - Chicago
Barflies--young, old and famous--come here for the cheap drinks and new friends.
Barflies--young, old and famous--come here for the cheap drinks and new friends.
After nearly ten years of stopping in every few months, this remains one of my favorite bars in the city. Not necessarily for the beers or mixed drinks, you...
Did a search for dive bars in Chicago and this was number one. We went in the afternoon and when we walked in it was so dark. There were a few small tables...
Fun dive bar. Can get super full, but we were lucky to snag a table at the window (great for people watching). Lots of cool signed caricatures on the wall.
For sure this is what a dive bar should be. It may not have the cheapest drinks, but there's lots of other things about it that make it so. Old Town Ale...
Back "in the day" I get it that this place was the place to go. But it's now a dirty, expensive place to get a drink in a dive-bar setting. It's right...