Vines on Clark

WRIGLEYVILLE, CHICAGO –

With lots of glowing flat-screens beckoning to Cubs fans, daily specials luring the budget-minded, and a big seasonal beer garden perfect for open air drinking, Vines on Clark fits right into the Wrigleyville bar scene without being (entirely) about baseball.

A long wooden bar with a mirrored back lines the right side of the front room, where casual area residents and college kids eye the TVs and take on stellar deals like half-off all food on Mondays and $1 Millers on Wednesdays.

Unless the Cubs are in town, rows of red leather bar tables usually offer plenty of room for whoever drops by, though home games promise hundreds of rowdy fans crowding in with pennants and mugs in hand and colors blazing.

Opposite the bar, a cozy brick room with a crackling fireplace offers less sports-minded couples and families a more intimate dining setting, while summer months see the majority of patrons making a beeline for the expansive patio and rooftop deck, where they dine on upscale bar fare like goat cheese salads and blackened steak as they watch the madness of Wrigleyville unfold below.

Whether it’s hosting a roaring, blue-painted throng on game days or a docile lunch crowd enjoying the specials, Vines on Clark is the kind of joint where Wrigleyville jocks and wanderers just passing through will both find reasons to return.