HYDE PARK — Starbucks is pitching adding booze to its offerings on 53rd Street.
The coffee shop chain is including its 1530 E. 53rd St. location in a list of stores that will experiment with offering beer and wine with a small dinner menu.
The Starbucks Evenings stores have been in Chicago, mostly Downtown, since 2012 offering truffle mac 'n' cheese, artichoke and goat cheese flatbread, chicken skewers and bacon-wrapped dates.
"The Evenings menu is truly for our customers who start their day at Starbucks and would like to end their day at Starbucks with a small plate, craft beer or wine — without the traditional bar environment," said Starbucks spokeswoman Holly Hart Shafer.
Hart Shafer said it could be a very long time before Evenings is introduced or “not at all.”
Prentice Butler, a spokesman for Ald. Will Burns (4th), said there will be a public meeting on the liquor license application before the alderman supports it, but a date has not yet been set.
The license would be for incidental alcohol sales and liquor must come secondary to the coffee shop’s primary business.
Starbucks is also applying for liquor licenses at 4558 N. Kedzie Ave. in Albany Park, 1 E. Delaware Pl. in Gold Cost, 520 N. Ogden Ave. in West Town, 401 E. Ontario St. in Gold Coast and 1230 N. Wells St. in Old Town.
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