Name: O'Donovan's Pub & Restaurant
Address: 2100 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL, 60618
Telephone: (773) 478-2100
Price range: $$

O'Donovan's Pub & Restaurant

North Center · American/Pub Food Community-sourced, unverified

📍 2100 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60618

O'Donovan's occupies a corner that's been pouring drinks since Prohibition, and it inherited something unusual when it took over from its predecessor, Schulien's: a house-magician tradition, originally built around a basement speakeasy, that the current bar has deliberately kept alive rather than letting fade with the ownership change.

Weekend tableside magic shows — a tradition kept alive from predecessor Schulien's historic house-magician speakeasy — alongside a heated beer garden and the well-reviewed 3 B's Burger.

Tableside magic shows still run on weekends — the bar's own tagline, 'Still has the MAGIC!,' isn't just a slogan — making this one of the only neighborhood pubs in the city where a close-up card trick is as much a part of the regular programming as the Thursday night Stewpendous Trivia (7:30 to 9:30 p.m., every week). The weekend brunch deal is the clearest current special: $30 gets unlimited bottomless mimosas or flavored Deep Eddy vodka, Saturday and Sunday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., alongside a menu that runs from a well-reviewed 3 B's Burger and Reuben Rolls to a Grilled Pear Gorgonzola Salad and BBQ Pork Ribs. Wednesdays bring 25% off wine bottles for the entire day, noon to midnight.

There's also a heated, enclosed beer garden tucked away from the main room, useful for stretching the patio season well past when most Chicago bars give up on outdoor seating. Hours run long and late on weekends — open until 2 a.m. Thursday through Saturday — with the kitchen closing roughly an hour before the bar does. For a corner this historically loaded, O'Donovan's reads less like a themed novelty bar and more like a place that happens to have kept a genuinely interesting tradition going because regulars would notice if it stopped.

Hours

Mon-Wed12pm-12am (kitchen til 11pm)

Thu12pm-2am (kitchen til 12am)

Fri-Sat11am-2am (kitchen til 12am)

Sun11am-12am (kitchen til 11pm) (per odonovansbar.com)

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Amenities & accessibility

❔Takeout: unverified

❔Wheelchair access: unverified

☀️Outdoor seating available

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