The food side plays a supporting role to the bar itself: solid salads and a chicken soup that gets specific praise, but the real draw is a genuinely well-priced whiskey and bourbon selection that suggests whoever's stocking the bar actually cares about it.
For Wood Dale, it's the kind of neighborhood fixture that outlasts trendier openings nearby.
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