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Buttercup

Food + DrinkSouth Loop · Cafe/Cocktail Bar Community-sourced, unverified
📍 75 E 16th St, Chicago, IL

Buttercup runs two lives in one room — a Sparrow Coffee cafe by day (7am-2pm, pastries and coffee) that flips into an amaro-focused cocktail bar by night.

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It's former Chicago Bear Israel Idonije's third South Loop spot, following The Staley and Signature Steak, in the space that used to be '16th Street Bar.'

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