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Sutherland's

Portage Park · American/Pub Food Community-sourced, unverified
📍 5353 W Irving Park Rd, Chicago, IL 60641

Sutherland's does the no-frills Portage Park neighborhood bar job about as plainly as a name can promise — a well-worn room on Irving Park Road built around a strong old-fashioned, a basic pretzel snack, and a beer list big enough (Half Acre Daisy Cutter among the regulars on tap) that it doesn't need to reach for a gimmick.

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A strong old-fashioned and a Half Acre Daisy Cutter on tap at a straightforward, one-speed Portage Park neighborhood bar with an outdoor patio and an unlikely 1841 namesake coincidence.

There's an outdoor patio for warm-weather regulars, carry-out for the ones who'd rather drink at home, and enough TVs scattered around that it functions as a game-day bar without branding itself as a sports bar specifically. The name has an unlikely echo in neighborhood history — an E.B. Sutherland ran a tavern along the old North West Plank Road back in 1841, per the Encyclopedia of Chicago's entry on Portage Park's founding, a coincidence worth mentioning even though nothing in research ties the current bar to that one directly.

No social media account, website, or email could be confirmed in research — the bar's own listed domain returned a broken security certificate rather than a working page, which is a sign of a neglected web presence more than a closed business: the city's own 2023 health inspection record and a current, un-flagged spot on a neighborhood bar guide both point to it still being open. No happy hour confirmed either — this is a straightforward, one-speed neighborhood bar, and that's clearly the whole pitch.

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Sutherland's

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Hours

Mon-Fri11am-2am
Sat11am-3am
Sun11am-2am (per Time Out Chicago; not re-confirmed as current)
🥡 Takeout unconfirmed

Amenities & accessibility

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

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