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			| mmm3587 | 10-22-2003 03:05 PM |  
 A Minor Dilemma
 
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		| Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
 I'll go on record for saying that the one thing you dislike about Chicago is one of things I like.  Give me an older bar with character and I'll be happy.
 
 Pascha?  I wouldn't be caught dead in that place.  Each to his/her own of course.  Of course, I won't go anywhere where the drinks are $8+ and every song is techno.  Kill me.  Techno does not = hip.  Never has, never will.  I suppose if you really like to dance, some of these places are probably pretty fun.  I'm usually out to get drunk.
 
 If I'm with the guys, a bar with good looking and efficient waitresses is really all I need.
 
 And I think the Park Hyatt (as well as the Four Seasons) is around $450/night now.
 
 |  I think we are actually on the same page.  I don't mind a drink and dancing crammed in with a bunch of 22 year olds now and then, but, for the most part, I want to sit around and get several drinks in a comfortable place when I go out.  That's what Chicago is missing, in my opinion.  Sports bars, Irish bars, neighborhood bars, we have in spades.  There are a lot of those, but they aren't always that nice.  And I like the more top-shelf stuff, that these places don't always have.  
 
In Chicago, there aren't a lot of slightly nicer places just to sit and talk and drink.  Like an older hotel bar or a nicer hole in the wall with some nice leather couches, or a nice, comfortable bar.  Those kind of places are all over the place in New York, LA, DC, Boston and other big cities.  Chicago doesn't have many.  It's either dingier places or over-the-top, see and be seen by a bunch of tools, dance clubs and bars. |