Quantcast

The DNAinfo archives brought to you by WNYC.
Read the press release here.

4 Neighborhood Places Where You Should Eat or Drink This Weekend

 From top left clockwise: Analogue, Izakaya Mita, Half Acre and Barley & Brass.
From top left clockwise: Analogue, Izakaya Mita, Half Acre and Barley & Brass.
View Full Caption
DNAinfo

CHICAGO — We suggest you try coffee-infused beer and chicken skins, but not necessarily at the same time.

Here are four places you should eat or drink this weekend:

• You'll have to wait in line for this one.

Half Acre Beer Co. is releasing A Big Hug, its limited-edition collaboration with Dark Matters Coffee. 

The coffee-infused imperial stout packs a wallop at 10 percent alcohol by volume.

Head to the North Center taproom where the brewery is releasing bottles, howlers (32 ounces) and growlers (64 ounces) of its Big Hugs beer at 11 a.m. Sunday.

Half Acre Beer Co., 4257 N. Lincoln Ave.

• Bucktown's new Japanese restaurant, Izakaya Mita, is a casual joint that features small plates cooked over a Bincho charcoal grill.

The restaurant features traditional Japanese fare — sashimi, squid and chicken skins.

Izakaya Mita, 1960 N. Damen Ave.

• The team behind River North's 25 Degrees burger bar just set up shop on Wicker Park's Division Street with the new Barley & Brass.

The gastropub serves up pub fare including nachos and the Canadian-gravy-and-cheese-drenched favorite, poutine.

There are 15 craft beers on tap along with cocktails served from a keg.

The signature dish, appropriately named Barley & Brass, offers a plate of short ribs with malted barley risotto, parsnip, carrot, porter reduction for $16.

Barley & Brass, 2015 W. Division St.

• Logan Square bar Analogue celebrated its first birthday Thursday when it unveiled its new cocktail menu that owners Robby Haynes and Henry Prendergast called their “strongest menu to date.”

Among the features are the Sohnic Reducer — an homage to Hot Doug's Doug Sohn. Analogue will also be serving a “tiki-fied punch bowl” and continuing “Airplane Bottles," a series of shots literally based on the tiny bottles of liquor legally permitted on airplanes.

Analogue, 2523 N. Milwaukee Ave.

For more neighborhood news, listen to DNAinfo Radio here: