The Meadowlark
The Meadowlark’s quarterly menu overhauls and North America’s 50 Best Bars recognition put it decisively in the upper tier of the city’s cocktail conversation.
Hidden behind an unmarked door in the back of a Logan Square corner building, The Meadowlark seats 28 and feels exactly that intimate. Vucekovich rebuilds the entire menu several times a year around a central theme, pulling from globally sourced spirits and house-made syrups, liqueurs, and bitters that nobody else in the city is making.
The 2024 Best Cocktail Menu award from North America’s 50 Best Bars was not a surprise to anyone who’d been paying attention. This is a room where the drink in front of you has been genuinely thought about — not workshopped into blandness, but sharpened until it has a point of view.
- The seasonal rotating menu centerpiece
- A house-made bitters-forward stirred cocktail
- Whatever the theme spirit is this quarter
