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Lemon

DrinkWest Town · Cocktail Bar / Live Performance Venue Community-sourced, unverified
📍 1600 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60622

Lemon started as DIY basement house-party shows where, as the founders put it, the drinks were much better than they had any right to be — and it's since grown into a real West Town cocktail bar and live performance venue that earned the Campari One To Watch Award at North America's 50 Best Bars 2025.

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$5 beer-and-shot combo plus a 16-item classics blackboard — Campari One To Watch Award winner, World's 50 Best Bars North America 2025 (#62)

Founded by four people with arts backgrounds (Zak McMahon, Jeremy Owen Barrett, Mason McIntire, and Seth Blumenthal), it explicitly models itself on Chicago mainstays like The Whistler and The Green Mill, hosting music, comedy, and dance with a deliberate focus on giving newer artists a stage.

The drink program runs from a straightforward $5 beer-and-shot combo up through a 16-item blackboard of classics and modern cocktails, and the team raised prices about 5% specifically so they could pay real wages, offer staff healthcare, and skip service fees — a genuinely unusual choice to lead with in a cocktail bar's story.

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Lemon

Drink
Beer-and-Shot Combo
West TownCommunity

Hours

Mon-Thu4pm-midnight (patio to 10pm); Fri-Sat 4pm-2am (patio to 11pm); closed Sun
🥡 Takeout unconfirmed

Amenities & accessibility

❔Takeout: unverified
❔Wheelchair access: unverified
☀️Outdoor seating available

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