Old Town Social Lounge / Restaurant / Sports Bar

Old Town, Chicago –

Depending on the time of day, there’s a little bit of everything at Old Town Social, from an upscale sports bar and a restaurant featuring locally sourced products to a DJ-driven lounge.

What doesn’t change at this former warehouse is the antique vibe, be it in the front parlor with the fireplace, vintage armchairs, and patterned red wallpaper or in the back space where deep velvet curtains hide romantic tables.

In the main room, polished rafters and enormous skylights arch high over a long wooden bar, where preppy fans and grown-up former bros gather to down craft drafts like Allagash White and London Pride and stare at the more than two dozen flat-screens.

Huddled around scattered high tables, successful businessmen throw back belts of bourbon and dive into cheese platters, while couples and yupster packs take to the handful of private booths – some with their own TV – and feast on dishes from a menu that includes BBQ beef brisket sandwiches, New Orleans-style beignet donuts, and lots of charcuterie.

As the evening wears on, tables are cleared, flat-screens vanish behind wooden cabinets, the ambient rock dinner music turns to high-energy house/pop party tunes, and a glammed-up crowd arrives to dance the night away.

Brunch brings the whole crew back on the weekends for Benedicts, bananas Foster, and a little hair of the dog, but by day or by night, Old Town Social keeps Old Town Chicago full of fresh food and fresher faces.