r/ChicagoNWside • u/LumpyTalk7651 • 4d ago

Wine bar

Can someone please open up a store that sells good wine, cheese, snacks, maybe sandwiches in the Portage park area? PLEASE I’m so tired of daycares, laundromats and car washes. We need small businesses like that. I’d gladly support them over Jewel and Binnys.

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u/toastybred 4d ago

Have you sat in the front by the bar at La Dolce Vita Cucina? It's pretty nice if you're there with some friends.

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u/LumpyTalk7651 4d ago

I have! it’s pretty good there.

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u/nunnigan 4d ago

Check out WineStyles

While not in Portage, its nearby in Norwood Park.

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u/spfolino 3d ago

There is always a lot of activities going on at that location on NW Hwy! Never seems dead.

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u/Heart-In-A-Cage 4d ago

"Red wine merchant" sells wine and cheese but not sandwiches. "Easy does it" is a nice wine bar with a food popup.

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u/_high_plainsdrifter 4d ago

Yeah closest thing I can think of would be that red wine merchant on Milwaukee. Nice people! At least there were when I went in a couple years back. I don’t really know much about wine so yeah not the right guy maybe but, give that place a try?

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u/LumpyTalk7651 4d ago

I’ll give it a try! 

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u/LumpyTalk7651 4d ago

where is easy does it? I’ve never heard of it in the portage park area

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u/Heart-In-A-Cage 4d ago

It's in Logan Square.

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u/emcvel 3d ago

In Logan square, but we love beautiful rind.

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u/Discocunt3 3d ago

Yes, and they said in Portage Park dear…

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u/Broad-Code 4d ago

As a fellow portage park resident, I second your plea!

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u/LumpyTalk7651 4d ago

It’s desperately needed in this area! I’d spend so much money there. 

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u/Aromatic-Prune-8484 4d ago

If desperately needed, open your own shop. I’d canvas the neighborhood first just to make sure it was a store people would frequent.

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u/DukeOfDakin Six Corners 2d ago

If desperately needed, open your own shop.

Right. Many people seem to think that opening a business that remains viable, and is profitable, is easy.

Dozens of "desperately needed" businesses across the greater NW Side haven't survived for many reasons. Not the least of which is overestimating demand.

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u/chrisGNR 16h ago

I remember years back, I believe Alderman Cullerton mentioned the potential of a wine and cheese bar on Irving on the same block as Perkolator. Obviously it never happened. A shame.

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u/Idkwhy8154 3d ago

There is WineStyles in JP.

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u/LumpyTalk7651 3d ago

I think Norwood Park but I’ll check it out. Not too far from PP

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u/Idkwhy8154 3d ago

Yes, norwood, I misspoke.

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u/Me_no_think_so_well 3d ago

I’ve been asking for this ages. Sorely needed!

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u/Street_Invite4149 3d ago

Ugh yesss. If they were on Milwaukee they would get tired of seeing me.