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Milli by Metric

Avondale · Coffee/Bakery Community-sourced, unverified
📍 3110 N Kedzie Ave, Chicago, IL 60618

Milli by Metric is Metric Coffee's big swing — a 12,000-square-foot roastery, headquarters, and bakery cafe built inside a former furniture warehouse in Avondale, from the roaster Darko Arandjelovic and Xavier Alexander founded back in 2013.

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The ham suisse — 'basically an excellent Cubano disguised as a pastry' per one reviewer — alongside a laminated bun with tea-infused ganache and fig from pastry chef Lou Turner's case.

The draw isn't just the coffee (though Metric's own pour-overs and espresso anchor the drink menu) — it's pastry chef Lou Turner's case, which reviewers keep calling out dish by dish: a genuinely flaky pain au chocolat, a cinnamon roll, a ham suisse one reviewer called basically an excellent Cubano disguised as a pastry, a laminated bun filled with tea-infused ganache and fig, and a croissant made with Janie's Mill whole wheat flour. The menu shifts with the seasons rather than staying fixed.

It's popular enough that weekend waits can run around 30 minutes, with multiple outlets advising an early visit to beat the line and actually get the pastry you came for. No happy hour or loyalty discount exists here — it's a bakery-cafe that earns its crowd through pastry quality alone.

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Milli by Metric

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Hours

Daily~7am-4pm per Time Out; Tablejourney gives a conflicting Mon-Fri 7am-7pm/Sat-Sun 8am-7pm -- unresolved
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📅 Reservations not available 🥡 Takeout unconfirmed

Amenities & accessibility

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

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