Where is the Best Blues Club in Chicago, Illinois?
Not even one star!! I can’t believe how poorly my 4 out-of-town friends and I were treated at this place. The doorman started an argument with me about which Blue Chicago location he thought I was asking about and the bartenders couldn’t have been more rude. If you hate working in the hospitality industry so much that you have to make your patrons miserable to get through your shift, then you should have gotten a new job a couple of years ago. The bitterness shows and the chip on your shoulder just makes tourists (and locals they might be with) never want to return to your establishment. Ugh.
Without a doubt, my favorite Blues Club in Chicago. I remember years ago taking a friend from San Francisco there, in the middle of a blizzard. With about 14 people there, Sugar Blue gave us a personal table side show as we continued playing pool. He then kept playing and wandered outside into the falling snow, then meandered back onstage. Sugar Blue, Melvin Taylor,Pinetop Perkins, the late great Junior Wells, I saw them all there for the first time. Most definitely the friendliest blues bar in the world. Tony and Mama Rosa are the best. LONG LIVE ROSA’S!
WONDERFUL almost Roadhouse feel. Excellent draft beers and specials. Small venue, very viewable stage, interesting accessable eats next door. Would give 5 stars but they are very lax on enforcing the NO-smoking policy. Went last night and they were allowing smoking in the connected tent clearly marked NO SMOKING (they turned the sign upside down). Really spoils it for people waiting to get signed CD’s etc from the artists after the show. We just left so it costs them money too. Here is the Berwyn police number, (708) 795-5600, non-emergency, choose the communication officer and politely ask them to (low priority) stop by and enforce the law. The Berwyn police were very nice. Support the cops AND the Troops (bring em home).Pros + Small Venue, Reasonably priced entry, food and drinks, very viewable stage, sound ok+Cons – NO-smoking Law abuse, very crowded, parking scarce.
The Green Mill was a speakeasy back in the days of Al Capone, and it appears not to have changed much since. The cash register is clearly very old, and it’s really cool looking, but it has the unfortunate habit of chiming and clanging during bass solos and other quiet parts of songs.These days, the Green Mill is one of the foremost jazz clubs in Chicago. Kurt Elling and Patricia Barber both have standing gigs there, and both are well worth the $7 cover. Get there early, or else you’ll be jammed in back with the loud men who came to pick up girls and can’t be bothered to shut up so that you can hear the music. The front is quiet (and non-smoking) and you can sit practically within arm’s reach of the musicians. The drinks aren’t cheap, but they aren’t ludicrously expensive. Every time I’ve gone, there’s been street parking out front.
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