Illinois / Chicago

Lost Lake

Tiki LoungeModern tiki 4.6 (1500)$$

Banana-leaf wallpaper, forty pages of rum, and the best-run tiki bar in the country wedged into a Logan Square corner.

Getting in

Small corner door under a banana-leaf awning.

Order this

Bunny's Banana Daiquiri

Your passport

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Keep the night going

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