Chicago Guide
CAFFEINE FIX & PLACES TO WORK
The Drawing Room at The Chicago Athletic Association (my favorite spot to work from)
Dropshot Coffee (another great place to work remotely!)
Fairgrounds
Floriole
Foxtrot Market (if you get there early enough, grab a breakfast taco)
Heritage
La Colombe – my favorite! (get the oat milk black and tan!)
Limitless
Lost Larson
Petit Margeaux
GRAB AND GO
Bodega Imports
Foxtrot Market – they also offer an incredible delivery service!
If you’re new to Foxtrot, you can get $10 off your first delivery order when you sign up here!
Freshii
Left Coast
Real Good Stuff Co.
BRUNCH AND BREAKFAST
Atwood
Beatrix
Blue Door Farmstand
Bluedoor Kitchen & Garden
The Butcher’s Tap*
Casati’s Pizza Vino*
Do-Rite Donuts & Chicken
Mindy’s Hot Chocolate
Nellcote*
Range
Somerset
Southport Grocery and Cafe
Summer House Santa Monica
The Allis
*Offers bottomless mimosas 😉
LUNCH
Lucky’s Sandwich Company
Shake Shack
Tuco and Blondie
Velvet Taco
DINNER
Bad Hunter
Eataly
etta
Big Star Taco
Broken English
CH Distillery
Duck Duck Goat
Gilt Bar (get the vodka pasta!)
Hub51
Luxbar
Parson’s Chicken and Fish
Prost!
Saint Lou’s Assembly
Siena Tavern
3 Arts Club Cafe
PIZZA
Casati’s Pizza Vino
Gino’s East
Happy Camper
Homeslice
Lou Malnati’s
Parlor Pizza Bar
Piece Brewery and Pizzeria
Stella Barra
HAPPY HOUR/DRINKS
Booth One
City Winery
Hampton Social
J. Parker
Sparrow
The Dawson
The Violet Hour
The Zebra Lounge
SWEET TREATS
Goddess & the Baker
Jeni’s Ice Cream
Magnolia Bakery
Sweet Mandy B’s
Stan’s Donuts
GROUP SPOTS
Big Joe’s (turtle racing!)
Broken Barrel Bar
Durkin’s (Post Office Thursdays!)
Emporium Popups
Federales
Galway Arms
Gutherie’s Tavern
Park and Field
Punch Bowl Social
Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club
Utopian Tailgate
SWEAT IT OUT
(you can try most of these out through Classpass and if you’re new, you get a great discount on your first month of credits here!)
Ethos Training
Studio Lagree
AIR Aerial Fitness
Title Boxing Club
*Classpass is great for bouncing around (get a free month here!)
BEST VIEWS/EXPERIENCES
360 Chicago
Cindy’s Rooftop
LondonHouse
Skydeck
PAMPER
Channing’s Studio and Spa (I see Cheryl for my brows. Mention my name for 10% off your first service!)
Chill Chicago: Meditation & Massage (also love their yoga and meditation class!)
Credo Beauty
Lume Wellness
European Wax Center (get $10 off by giving them my name: Jess Zimlich)
Exhale Spa
Ezza Nails
Platinum 34 (I see Jenna for my cut and color! She’s also a great friend of mine and just good energy to be around.)
Salon Envy (I see Natalia for waxing and she’s the BEST. They have a great referral program, too. Just say my name!)
ZaZaZoo Nail Salon – no chip mani
SHOPS
Alice & Wonder
All She Wrote
A New Leaf
Art Effect
Foursided
Judy Maxwell General Store
Londo Mondo
Paper Source
Parachute Home
Serena & Lily
Space 519
DISCOUNT/REFERRAL CODES
Arcadia Power (A super easy way to do some good for our planet! Signing up connects you to clean energy and helps you spend less on your power bill and it’s so so easy. If I can do it, you can do it, trust me).
Equilibria CBD – 15% off your first order via this link or code JESSZIMLICH
Foxtrot – they offer an incredible delivery service!
If you’re new to Foxtrot, you can get $10 off your first delivery order when you sign up here!
Seed Probiotics – 15% off with code JESSZIMLICH. I truly can’t say enough good things and am now convinced the dozens of others i tried before this were just sugar pills.
Trunk Club (see this post for my full review!)