River North is a utopia of delicious cocktails and clubs, so when you head out on a Saturday night the options can be overwhelming. Below are the top five cocktail bars in River North where you’re sure to enjoy the ambiance, the patrons, and most of all, the cocktails.
Gilt Bar is a great place to relax in their luminous and intimate setting, consume contemporary American dishes while sipping on a tasty cocktail. However, down their stairs and through plush velvet curtains is a hidden oasis of leather bound books, candlelight, and smooth tunes. The Library—Gilt Bar’s lower-level lounge is an escape from modern Chicago into a different time. If the setting of this picturesque speakeasy doesn’t charm you, the expanded menu of 20-plus hand-craft cocktails surely will. So slink downstairs to the Library, post up in one of their red velvet booths, and enjoy.