Wrigleyville is Chicago’s treasure, it sounds magical during the holidays. This season, it’s waiting for you to be explored.
You can start your journey at Chicago’s Northside Christkindlmarket. From there, make sure to find the perfect place to have a nice hot cocoa after seeing displays of Christmas lights. Wrigleyville also offers many festive holiday pop-up bars with grown up limitation.
These seasonal attractions, housed in some of Chicago’s top bars are decked in tinsel festive string lights. Guests can enjoy delicious fun concoctions—from spiked hot chocolate to delightful glasses of steaming eggnog—as well as lots of festive photo chances. You will be Intsa-famous in no time!
Here are some of the best holiday pop-up bars in Wrigleyville:
1. Santa Baby Christmas Bar
Santa Baby Christmas Bar is a multilevel Christmas pop-up bar with wall-to-wall holiday decor comes to Wrigleyville at the most joyful time of the year, taking over Deuce’s Major League Bar. There are plenty of photo opportunities, as well as drinks with festive garnishes and garlands, such as the Jingle Juice and Mega Yule Mule, which are served in large-format cocktails. Holiday waffles, topped with whipped cream, strawberries, and crushed peppermint, are among the festive breakfast alternatives. Make sure to have your reservation before going to Santa Baby Christmas Bar. Reservations are almost fully booked this December, go to their website to book your reservation.
2. Rudolph’s Pop-Up Bar
Looking for a different way to ring in the season in Wrigleyville? Rudolph’s Christmas Bar, located only down the street at Casey Morans, is owned by the creators of the popular Santa Baby Christmas Bar. The place is dressed out in over-the-top, dazzling decor and offers a nearly same menu of holiday-themed drinks and food as its counterpart.
3. Charm’d Magical Irish Pop-Up
Charm’d – The Magical Irish Pop-Up is a multi-room, multi-level magical Irish experience that is charming and over-the-top. Wall-to-wall Irish decor, lucky charms, several bars, social photo opportunities, and plenty of leprechaun mischief!
4. 8 Crazy Nights
8 Crazy Nights is Chicago’s first and only Hanukkah-themed pop-up bar that takes over The Graystone Tavern in Wrigleyville, decked up the bar and weatherproofed beer garden with over 14,000 blue-and-white lights, dreidel ornaments, a lighted menorah, Mensch on a Bench, a Hanukkah sweater wall, and an 8-foot inflatable dreidel and more. Jewish favorites such as latkes and matzo ball soup are served alongside brisket egg rolls and a boozy, vodka-infused jelly doughnut. Festive cocktails with traditional Hanukkah flavors are also available.
5. Elf’d Up
Elf’d Up, which is located in Wrigleyville, is the ideal way to spread Christmas cheer by singing loudly for everyone to hear! Over 1,000 elves of various sizes, a 10-foot Christmas tree, an upside down Christmas tree, wreath chandeliers, strands of festive colored lights, and specific tributes to the movie such as figurines, wall quotes, snowflakes, Schylling Jester Jack in the Boxes, cutouts of Buddy the Elf and Miles Finch, and more adorn Elf’d up from floor to ceiling. Join Elf’d Up Happy House for holiday beverages and culinary dishes like Buddy’s Breakfast Pasta, which consists of spaghetti covered with maple syrup, chocolate fudge, and mini marshmallows.
