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Old Town Pour House Joins Game-Room Trend

By Ted Cox | August 25, 2017 3:42pm | Updated on August 28, 2017 8:21am
 The new game room at the Old Town Pour House includes a pair of giant Connect Four boards, as well as a giant Jenga set.
The new game room at the Old Town Pour House includes a pair of giant Connect Four boards, as well as a giant Jenga set.
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OLD TOWN — Joining one of the hottest trends in taverns, the Pour House has added a game room.

The 5-year-old Pour House, at 1419 N. Wells St., has converted a private dining room downstairs to a game room with a capacity of 50, even including the 16-foot shuffleboard table.

"We hope it's an extension of the vibrant atmosphere upstairs," said Angela Zoiss, vice president of marketing for Bottleneck Management, which owns the Old Town tap.

In fact, Zoiss added, the shuffleboard table is something of a Bottleneck trademark, having been at hit with staff and customers alike at its Boundary bar at 1932 W. Division St. in Wicker Park.

"We've always just really enjoyed shuffleboard," Zoiss said unapologetically.

The new game room, which opened this week, includes a pair of giant Connect Four boards, as well as giant Jenga, along with more conventional game-room fare such as a standard-size chess set.

It will be open Wednesday-Sunday, opening at 5 p.m. weekdays and noon on weekends. Its debut is timed, of course, with the start of football season.

Zoiss said they're developing an individual cocktail menu for the room, too.

It's available for private events, but if free also gives groups a place to spread out and watch a game or set of games, or play their own games, a hot trend in Chicago bars.