America’s 80 Best Bourbon Bars: Midwest Region – 2016

Big Star, Chicago, Ill: Big Star uses a unique combination of tacos, $3 Bourbon shots and classic country music to drawl in its standing room only crowds at night. It also only carries whiskies that are American made.
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America’s 80 Best Bourbon Bars

Midwest Region

Big Star, Chicago, Ill:  Big Star uses a unique combination of tacos, $3 Bourbon shots and classic country music to drawl in its standing room only crowds at night.  It also only carries whiskies that are American made.

Sable, Chicago, Ill 

The Barrelhouse Flat, Chicago, Ill

Longman & Eagle, Chicago, Ill

Delilah’s, Chicago, Ill: Chicago has many options to find great Bourbon, but none is more iconic than Delilah’s.  Since 1993, owner Mike Miller has offered a wide variety of Bourbon and music to patrons of this Bourbon Mecca.

Untitled Supper Club, Chicago, Ill

The Office, Chicago, Ill:  Nestled in the downstairs of the popular and James Beard Award winning The Aviary, the office is a quaint speakeasy that carries an impressive variety of new and vintage Bourbons.

Sanctuaria, St. Louis, MO

BBQ Saloon, St. Louis, MO

J.O.B. Public House, Springfield, MO

Century Bar, Dayton, OH: No TV’s.  No jukebox.  Just 115 Bourbons and over 300 whiskies total to choose from while you listen to music from the 1930’s.  The home of the former Kette & Sons Rye Whiskey Distillery, Century Bar also regularly holds blind tastings.

Butter Run Salon, St. Clair Shores, MI

 Butcher And The Boar, Minneapolis, MN

 Single Barrel, Lincoln, NE

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