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Best for Food: Lovely Bakery in Wicker Park. Their homemade soups are creative and fresh and their Mollie’s Dollies are the best treat around to spend your calories-er, money on.
Best Atmosphere: Sip on Grand Ave. Just when you think you've fallen in love with the inside, walk to the beautiful garden patio for an old school wind chime party while you sip on your iced green tea latte.
Best place to get work done: Metropolis on West Granville. Awarded "Roaster of the Year" by Roast magazine, Metropolis has free wi-fi, plenty of seating and assorted snacks to keep you working on your screenplay/loveletter/brief/deposition/tps report/take-home final/napkindoodle throughout the day.
Best place to pretend to get work done but actually talk and people watch: A Caribou-tie between the one on Broadway/Aldine aka “Cruiseabou”and the one on Ashland and School where X-Sporters, Whole Foods shoppers and Cubs fans making the trek to Wrigley cross paths, often proving to be hilarious distractions from doing anything productive.
Best Iced Coffee Everything: Coco Rouge on Division. Iced coffee, iced tea, iced lattes, iced cream—chocolatiers that also do coffee do it best.
Best Overall: Bridgeport Coffee House, where the coffee is roasted there every morning, free internet is available and art exhibits don the walls. We could and will rave about it over and over again.
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Newcity did this at the end of last year. the Indie coffeehouse guide
http://www.newcitychicago.com/chicago/7115.html
What about Oak Park? Heads Up on Oak Park roasts their own coffee too.
at least the Trib gave props to Ashburys, we used to hit that place all the time in high school in the late 90's - still going strong
Whoa, New City still exists...I'd completely forgotten about it. Useful list though, so I gotta give credit where it's due.
This makes me sad again about West Gate Coffeehouse on Madison and Sangamon closing. They had free internet, great food, comfy couches, board games, and Intelligentsia coffee. Now it's a bridal shop. Sniff.
I'm sad Filter (now a BOA branch grr) is gone.
i met emmy sudo at bridgeport coffee house. it was a lovely experience.
Sip is still the place for me, but can't compare to before their expansion...they had what seemed like an expanse of outdoor with multiple mature trees...include a peach tree!
It took 5 years to open, but the new Istria in the Hyde Park Art Center is HAWT. The gelato kills me. My only gripes is that they charge for wifi (wtf!?) and its always pretty crowded.
anyone know anything about the rumor that filter is re-opening in the mil/div area?
edkotch-- was supposed to happen and the plan is now dead in the water.
I would add 6-month old The Coffee Studio in north Andersonville to the list of great coffee shops. Just sayin'.