Cozy, stylish bar at the Chicago Athletic Association serving cocktails made with rare ingredients.
"The Venetian Gothic woodwork in the Chicago Athletic Association hotel lobby sets up that they-don't-make-'em-like-they-used-to feeling. It hits you full on when you take one of the eight seats at a bar discreetly tucked behind a wall of stained-glass windows and sip something decades or even a century old. Milk Room is a tiny altar to the heady, rarefied world of vintage spirits and amaros. The Campari and Fernet from the '70s that are used in some of the cocktails are gentler—modern versions use extracts; not so much back then, the bartender tells me. A 1927 Old Hermitage sour-mash whiskey had a whiff of funk and an uncanny roundness—this is what history tastes like." [Esquire]
Bar
Website: Milk Room
Address: 12 S Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603