The Empty Bottle
Reviews
Live music rules! Yet another cheap place to get you music heard! Plus a great eaterie next door. Small and volume is always the drummers fault! Does every drummer have to slam it like John Bonham? This kind of place is why Chicago can grow and support some great bands!
The perfect place to see up and coming acts, or see an established artist in a cozier space. There is ample floor space, and if you're there for the bar you won't be suffocated by the people there for the live music. There is also a back room, complete with pool table and some arcade games, where you can see what's happening onstage via live feed on a monitor in the room. It's a cool, authentic venue, the type where you'll find the bathrooms decked out in graffiti, and the walls full of old and new show posters. Check it out any night of the week!
Basically a dive bar with live music. Was strange not ordering a PBR. it felt like I was the only one not drinking one. I get this is a cool and hip place but does it really have to look like a shit hole inside. 5 stars since I guess its seems like the perfect place for the crowd that shows up.
Great bands play here, but I wish it wasn't so far from everything. Still, good place to catch a show. :-)
I came here for a concert that I had won a couple of tickets to. The venue is interesting, very much a dive bar. They have a surprisingly decent beer list, some of which is on tap. The drink specials were good, but this place is all about the music. The band I went to see didn't end up going on until about 2 and a half hours after the "start" time of the concert. The opening acts were alright, but mostly just wasted time before the main performance. This place is loud! They even sell earplugs at the bar, which might be necessary if you get up close and personal to the performance. The bathroom was a bit dirty, which is not particularly surprising.
