Earlier this year, Marble and Crown Tap Room, two beloved dive bars in adjacent northwest-side neighborhoods, closed their doors to loyal customers to make improvements that would help them better fulfill the desires of the area’s changing demographics. Change scares people, especially when it threatens to turn their corner watering hole into another Logan Square madhouse packed with recent college grads finding themselves through craft cocktails and creative facial hair.
There’s vintage this and that everywhere; even the coasters look like they were salvaged from some late-70s bar supply warehouse. It’s an atmosphere carefully crafted to look sort of shabby, like Rose’s Lounge in Lakeview or your grandpa’s basement, except that your grandpa doesn’t know from cachaca.
