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Fathom

Lakeview · Dive Bar/Cocktail Community-sourced, unverified
📍 1622 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, IL 60657

Fathom is Whitney LaMora and Zoe Schor's second bar after Dorothy, the Ukrainian Village lesbian bar that made them a known quantity in Chicago's queer nightlife scene, and this one moves east to Lakeview with a different premise: an upscale dive with a nautical theme, dropped into the former Flagship Tavern space on Belmont, a name that, read one way, already set up the joke.

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A nautical-dive concept with programming that rotates through trivia, karaoke, and culinary pop-ups night to night — the second LGBTQ+ bar from the team behind Dorothy.

It opened April 9, 2026, and the crowd skews LGBTQ+ broadly rather than any single identity within it, with programming that rotates through trivia nights, karaoke, and the occasional culinary pop-up rather than running on a single fixed weekly gimmick. The format itself splits the difference between genuinely-a-dive and something a little more composed — a long bar built for proper drinks, but the overall energy still reads closer to beer-and-a-shot than cocktail-list-as-performance.

Doors open at 5 p.m. daily, 21-plus, though weekend and Sunday closing times conflict slightly across listings — some sources show Friday/Saturday running to 1 a.m., others suggest a tighter Sunday window. No food menu, drink prices, or happy hour turned up anywhere in research; checking Instagram before heading over is the standard advice from local coverage, since programming changes night to night rather than following a published calendar.

Specials at Fathom

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Fathom

LakeviewCommunity

Hours

Doors at 5pm daily per OutxOut; Pearl lists Mon-Wed 5-11pm
Thu5pm-midnight
Fri5pm-1am
Sat3pm-1am
Sun3-11pm -- sources conflict on weekend/Sunday opens
📅 Reservations not available 🥡 Takeout unconfirmed

Amenities & accessibility

🚶Walk-in only, no reservations
❔Takeout: unverified
❔Wheelchair access: unverified

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