Date Spots in Chicago, IL

Dating in Chicago

A Chicago date can begin with coffee at Intelligentsia Coffee, Dark Matter Coffee - Meddle, Jackalope Coffee & Tea House, Soloway coffee, Ipsento 606, Sweet Bean, Cafecito, Mojo Coffee, Swadesi Cafe, or Vanille Patisserie. Cuisines like coffee shop, pastry, cuban, and indian show up here. Then move to culture at the Field Museum, Intuit Art Museum, National Museum of Mexican Art, Ukrainian National Museum, Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, National Museum of Puerto Rican Arts & Culture, The Art Institute of Chicago, Money Museum, or Chicago Architecture Center. Dinner can be Greek Islands, The Berghoff Restaurant, Frontera Grill, Oriole, RJ Grunts, Pizano's Pizza & Pasta, Kinzie Chophouse, Sepia, Cabra, or Baobing, with greek, german, mexican, american, pizza, steak house, peruvian, and taiwanese options.

Later, drinks can happen at Little Toasted, Ovie Bar & Grill, Jefferson Tap & Grille, Centennial Crafted Beer & Eatery, Cruz Blanca Brewery & Taquería, Black Barrel Tavern, Diego, The Hideout, DSTRKT Bar & Grill, or Elephant & Castle. For entertainment, the Civic Opera House, Chopin Theatre, Symphony Center, Gene Siskel Film Center, James M. Nederlander Theatre, Chicago Theatre, Owen Bruner Goodman Theatre, Cadillac Palace Theatre, Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island, and Chicago Shakespeare Theater are all listed. Outdoors options include Millennium Park, Grant Park, Maggie Daley Park, Skinner Park, Stephen A. Douglas Monument Park, John Wilson Park, Burnham Park, Western Park, Churchill Field Park, and Supera Park. A simple plan is one coffee, one dinner, one drink, and one walk or show.

Neighborhoods in Chicago

These areas are called out in the local notes for this city. They can help you keep a date to one part of town.

• Millennium Park An outdoors spot from the list, good for a walk before coffee at Intelligentsia Coffee or Dark Matter Coffee - Meddle.
• Grant Park Another listed outdoor space, easy to pair with culture at The Art Institute of Chicago or dinner at The Berghoff Restaurant.
• Maggie Daley Park A park in the outdoors data, useful for a casual stop between coffee at Jackalope Coffee & Tea House and Sweet Bean.
• Burnham Park A listed outdoor option, can follow drinks at Cruz Blanca Brewery & Taquería or Black Barrel Tavern.
• Skinner Park A low-key outdoor stop from the data, pair with dinner at Pizano's Pizza & Pasta or Cabra.