![]() ![]() That’s 85 years! Shinnick's PubĪddress: 3758 S Union Ave, Chicago, IL 60609 Images via Instagram Where can I hear Irish music in Chicago? Shinnick’s Pub has been open and family-run since 1938. If you're looking for a place to celebrate here some of the best Irish pub Chicago has to offer. Patrick's Day in Chicago is always a good time. And that, as those counting will agree, is only two drinks. This I washed down with my second drink: a bottle of iced Champagne-”a favorite drink of mine” agreed Oscar, under oath no less. ![]() Here’s how: my first drink was the Oscar Wilde Potent Elixir, a house cocktail of cognac, champagne, gin, cassis, lavender, orange zest, and Guinness. So fearing for my sanity (and, incidentally, as official advisor to the Beverage Director on all drinks Wildean), I thought I should be more circumspect in my carousing, so I decided to limit my intake to two drinks.īut how to achieve this stricture and still remain eclectically Wildean? Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.” After the second, you see things as they are not. As Wilde himself noted, “After the first glass you see things as you wish they were. This legal liquor is the latter-day equivalent of Wilde’s decadent poison. Not that I partook of the Green Fairy, myself, oh no. Absinthe, you see, is supposed to possess mysteriously mind-bending properties. The Oscar Wilde Bar is essentially a place for extravagant indulgence in the Oscar Wilde style. Fitting, therefore, that there is an absinthe fountain. The features are listed here, and to save a thousand words is the reason we paint these pictures. Of course the decor has taken all the attention, so I shall not repeat the superlatives. They know, as documented here, that Wilde visited America for an entire year in 1882, and spent more time in New York than anywhere else. There is every reason for the owners to be serious about their Wilde. ![]() Or, as Gwendolen says about the name Ernest in Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest: each has “a music of its own” which “inspires absolute confidence.” This is perhaps why the owners, stirred by these lyrical overtures have been persuaded into such philharmonic proportions with a homage to the man himself. Now that it is finished it was time to attend the press reception.Ĭonducting this knowing symphony of ornamentation are Tommy Burke and Frank McCole, maestros of three other restaurants in the city, each with reverberations of Oscar Wilde: Lillie’s, Lille’s Times Square, and the Papillon Bistro.Įach of these restaurants in its own way is ornate and unique. Raising The Barīut believe me, none of them, past or present, comes remotely close to the lavishness to be found at the new Oscar Wilde Bar in New York City.Īs one artistic passerby was heard to exclaim when poking his head through the door, “Minimalism is dead!” And that was when the place was only half finished during the renovations. One or two, such as Wilde’s Restaurant in The Lodge at Ashford Castle, in Cong, Ireland, and the Oscar Wilde room at the Café Royal in Piccadilly, London, try a little harder to embody Oscar’s maxim that moderation is a fatal thing, and nothing succeeds like excess. Most of these pretenders, however, merely give a nod to the old boy by borrowing his name. There is a Wilde Café in Minneapolis, and a bar called Oscar Wilde 9 located, both surprisingly and unsurprisingly, at #9 Oscar Wilde St. There have been Oscar Wilde bars before now: in Berlin, San Diego, Chicago, and, I seem to recall, one previously in New York City.
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