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The Alley Cat

Wicker Park · Cocktails/Bar Snacks Community-sourced, unverified
📍 2013 W Division St, Chicago, IL 60622

The Alley Cat is the pizza team's branch into cocktails — a sibling bar from the group behind Paulie Gee's, built in a Wicker Park space constructed directly over a former city alley, which is exactly where the narrow, elongated room and the name both come from.

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Ten all-draft cocktails at a flat $12 each (Saturn, Girl Dinner Gibson, Blue Moon Over Wicker) and Brandade Fish Sticks, in a room built over a former city alley with a chandelier salvaged from the Chopin Theatre.

The decor leans hard into a specific era, pulling 1920s-to-1940s Chicago architectural details together with an actual chandelier salvaged from the nearby Chopin Theatre, rather than going for a generic vintage-bar look assembled from a catalog. The drink program commits to an unusual format: every cocktail is served on draft, ten of them at a flat $12, with names as considered as the drinks themselves — a Saturn (gin-based tiki classic), a Girl Dinner Gibson, a Blue Moon Over Wicker, a riff called Don't Cry For Me, Margarita. Food stays snack-focused rather than trying to compete with a kitchen, running from Bread & Butters and Crispy Taters up to Brandade Fish Sticks and a $26 'Girl Dinner' plate, pork skewers rounding out the savory side.

It's open every night of the week, 5 p.m. start across the board, with weeknights closing at midnight and weekends stretching to 2 a.m. and a kitchen that cuts off 45 minutes before the bar does. No happy hour is advertised — the flat $12 all-day cocktail pricing functions as the deal instead, a simpler pitch than a time-boxed discount. For a pizza group's first real pivot into a standalone bar concept, Alley Cat reads like a considered second act, not a side project squeezed in between pies.

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The Alley Cat

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Hours

Sun-Thu5pm-12am
Fri-Sat5pm-2am
daily (per thealleycatchicago.com)
📅 Reservations 🥡 Takeout unconfirmed

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❔Takeout: unverified
❔Wheelchair access: unverified

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