Drink Smart

Intelligentsia's new Logan Square digs

For years, we watched with envy as Intelligentsia, one of Chicago’s oldest hometown coffee heroes, launched splashy new shops across Los Angeles. This year, the covetousness...

Drinkable Ambition

Ada St. triples its cocktail list

Be prepared to start your next meal at Ada St. lost in thought. It takes measured concentration to read though the restaurant’s ambitious new cocktail menu, a collaborative...

Small But Mighty

A taste of Spiteful Brewing, Ravenswood's nanobrewery

There’s something in Ravenswood’s water. It feeds the stills of Letherbee and Koval distilleries, and the brew tanks of Half Acre, Begyle Brewing, and...

Drink Pink

Try 5 Rabbit's hibiscus-packed Huitzi

If there’s one beer you drink this weekend, let it be 5 Rabbit’s Huitzi. The two-year-old brewery, based just south of Midway Airport, calls the limited-release,...

Let There Be Gin

Letherbee Distillers' packed spring lineup

A paper with the phrase “Let There Be Gin,” taped to an otherwise plain glass lobby door in Ravenswood, is the only indication that this location is home to one of our...

Sublime Sips

Smitten with Harvest Juicery's cold-pressed juices

We’ve eaten fennel shaved, braised, roasted, sautéed and fried, but until Harvest Juicery arrived, we had never drunk it by the glassful, greedily. The new juice...