American Girl Place Cafe

The American Girl Place Cafe is located at 835 N Michigan Ave. It is attached to the American Girl store. When I was younger I loved American Girl dolls, which is interesting because I found dolls either creepy or I viewed them as collectors items to be kept in boxes until they were worth something. I [...]

Kopi: A Travelers Cafe

Kopi is a cafe in Andersonville located at 5317 N Clark St. The cafe is filled with bookshelves of journals and travel guides, shelves and shelves of Lonely Planet. With a little shop of items for sale in the back. Art lines the walls that rotates and the shop occasionally hosts live music. The cafe [...]

Dollop

There are a couple Dollop coffee shops in Chicago. The one I went to was located at 345 East Ohio Street. Dollop is a cafe that offers a nice variety of food (mostly sandwiches), pies and sweets along with coffee and tea.  Their pies are from Hoosier Mama Pie Company. They have a seasonal menu and I [...]

Bite Cafe

A friend and I headed to the bite cafe in the Ukrainian village for brunch. There isn't a direct train line to the spot and since it was Sunday the busses were not coming by very often.  I walked pretty far from the blue line to the Bite Cafe. It wasn't a bad walk, there [...]

Coffee and Tea Exchange

The Coffee and Tea Exchange is located on 3311 N. Broadway in Lake view. The Coffee and Tea Exchange is  a shop packed with coffee beans,  tea, spices, pastries and more. You can buy loose leaf teas or coffee beans to take home or have them made for you there. They have a wall filled [...]

Sunshine cafe-closed

Sunshine cafe is a tiny Japanese restaurant in Andersonville at 5449 N Clark St. I went with a friend for dinner and we were given green tea and water. We split Gyoza, got 6 total that came with a dipping sauce that was too spicy. They were tiny but good.  There were two different kinds of [...]

Gaslight Coffee Roasters

Gaslight Coffee Roasters is located at 2385 n Milwaukee Ave, a short walk from either the Logan Square blue line stop or the California blue line stop. The Gaslight Coffee Roasters are open from 8am to 9pm Monday through Saturday and from 9am to 6pm on Sunday. I went on a late Monday afternoon to say [...]

The Common Cup

The Common Cup is a cafe in Rogers Park which can be found off the Morse Red line stop at 1501 W. Morse Avenue. I stopped by on a hot day for a cup of iced tea.  The place was pretty full with a wide variety of ice cream and baked goods. The tea I [...]

Robust Coffee Lounge-Closed

The Robust Coffee Lounge is located on Woodlawn avenue. It is a nice little coffee lounge where you can not just grab coffee to go but sit down, eat, and do some work or catch up with a friend. They have a variety of drink options such as the diablo mocha made with chilli pepper, [...]

Caffe Streets

Caffe Streets is in Wicker Park on Division Street. They have some outdoor seating, like a lot of the restaurants on the street. Inside is a modern wooden format, with painted cow skulls and greenery. They have tall tables and chairs with extra spot in the chair for you to put your bags or coats. [...]