Chicago's hidden rooms are legend: The Violet Hour, behind an ever-changing mural wall in Wicker Park, set the standard for American craft cocktails, and the Milk Room, an eight-seat former speakeasy in the Chicago Athletic Association, pours rare spirits by reservation.
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Wicker Park's curtained cathedral of cocktails, a James Beard-winning room behind a mural wall.
Pip’s Tip No sign. Look for the door set into the mural wall in Wicker Park.
An eight-seat former speakeasy pouring rare and vintage spirits, Chicago's most intimate reservation.
Pip’s Tip Eight seats, reservation only. The hardest seat to get in the Loop.
The Alinea Group's subterranean den beneath The Aviary pours rare vintage spirits and flawless classics for a lucky few.
Pip’s Tip Book through Tock. It is underneath The Aviary, Tuesday to Saturday.
A genuine Prohibition-era speakeasy where tarot cards double as cocktail menus and burlesque acts pop up nightly.
Ten years strong, this Parisian-style cabaret above Division Street mixes live jazz, burlesque, and seductive craft cocktails.
Browse vinyl out front, then duck behind the stacks into a plush lounge with live music and record DJs.
Follow the skull-lined alley stairway down to a world-class tiki temple with flaming rum bowls and the exclusive Bamboo Room.
Get a fresh cut by day, then slide past the barber chairs into a buzzing hidden cocktail party by night.
Four secret-stacked floors in an 1888 Adler & Sullivan building: Victorian cocktail bar, supper club, mirror-ball Disco, glass-roofed Garden.
A discreet 1927 Art Deco hideaway pouring Havana-inspired rum cocktails that feels lifted straight from old Cuba.
The Lardon team's 30-seat speakeasy behind an unmarked alley door, serving some of Logan Square's most inventive cocktails.
Duck through a Chinatown restaurant's kitchen door for neon vibes, hip-hop energy, and Asian-inspired cocktails with serious acclaim.
A candlelit, book-lined basement chamber beneath Gilt Bar channeling Chicago's speakeasy past with leather booths and stiff classics.
Hidden behind a fake liquor-store front, this rowdy upscale dive delivers late-night energy, live music, and farm-to-bar drinks.
Find the door in the mural, part the curtains, the high-ceilinged blue room that taught America to drink well again.
A hidden room with the family. Members get the password first.
Speakeasies are one chapter of Pip's Lifestyle, find the lounges, whiskey bars, rooftops and jazz clubs below.
