specialty burgers are the highlight of the menu, each with a name that incorporates the bar’s prison-rock theme. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then the folks at Kuma’s Corner can take a bow, because by the time you reach Lockdown Bar’s menu it’s impossible not notice the similarities.
Got ten bucks? You can probably buy yourself a PBR and Jamo hangover and even the Belgian imports run no higher than $7. You won’t find a selection of house cocktails or a menu-length whiskey list here, but very hipster-friendly drink specials are offered every day of the week. The hard liquor selection is fairly basic, as well. You’ll have to step outside, like a smoker, to make or take a call.ĭrinks at Lockdown Bar are pretty straight forward, with six taps supplemented by 41 cans and bottles, enough to find something agreeable to most palates. You won’t see anyone in Lockdown Bar on their cell phone.
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And when I say blaring, I’m not exaggerating, especially when the bar goes full metal racket on weekends.
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(Lose the video, however, and you have AliveOne, which has been rocking Lincoln Park for years.) Just as often however, you’ll find a blaring soundtrack, with many of the monitors taken over by sports-the bar does kill the music for weekend college and pro football. The primary purpose of those monitors is to broadcast live performances from the history of rock, and or, roll, as Lockdown Bar claims to be the first “virtual venue” in the city. Exposed ductwork, diamond-stamped chrome plates along the walls and occasional soft-core lesbian erotica adorn the space, which gets most of its light from banks of video monitors that outnumber those on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise. Table seating hugs the perimeter, while a partially-barred and raised space offers a few more tables at the back of the room. A service bar claims the southern wall, with a little caged alcove above housing the bar’s resident prisoners. The room itself is rectangular and on the cozy side. So, it’s hard to miss the newly rehabbed corner storefront across the street, with its over-sized black banner stretched across the building and dual glass garage doors that retract to open up the front of the bar. Exchanging hard labor for hard rock, sporting an edgy, industrial look and offering numerous daily specials, Lockdown Bar can make for an interesting escape.īefore Lockdown Bar, Empty Bottle pretty much had this corner of Ukrainian Village to itself, with the exception of a few Polish tawernas where patrons still call their beer piwo. So, a prison theme would seem an unlikely motif for a new Chicago watering hole, yet that’s exactly what you have in Lockdown Bar-and by incorporating some familiar elements from other popular local bars, it works. There are three places no one wants to be: the office on Monday, the dentist’s chair and jail.
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