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Published on 7/25/08
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What you get
Pint of Bud, Miller Lite or PBR: $3.50
Live music: free
Pool: free
Golden Tee: free
Total tab$3.50
What you get
Pizza slice: $1.75
Pint of AmberBock: $1.50
Game of video bowling: 50 cents
Two plays on the jukebox: $1.00
Total tab$4.75
Falcon Inn(1601 E 53rd St, no phone) What’s beyond the interior pass-through window in this Hyde Park dive? Cholie’s Pizza, a semiseparate establishment that shares the west wall of the building. Start by grabbing a huge slice ($1.75) to complement that pint of AmberBock ($1.50). After wolfing down dinner, get pumped up for a fierce game of video bowling (50 cents) to a custom soundtrack courtesy of the joint’s new digital jukebox, which has a ton of selections from South Side favorite Kanye West (two plays for $1). Once your fiver is gone, enjoy unlimited color commentary about the state of the world from the old-timers sitting at the bar, at least one of whom is usually drinking his Miller Lite on the rocks.—Laura Oppenheimer
What you get
Two Miller Lite drafts: $1.50
Two Jell-O shots: $2.00
Three songs on the jukebox: $1.00
Total tab$4.50
Ted’s Firewater Saloon(5834 S Kedzie Ave, 773-436-8444) This Southwest Side tavern, decorated to look like a cross between a general store and a Wisconsin hunting lodge, gets you some serious value for your fin. Go on Wednesdays or Saturdays, when $5 buys you two Miller Lite drafts in frosted mugs (75 cents), two Jell-O shots ($1 apiece), three songs off Mexican ranchero singer Vicente Fernández’s latest on the jukebox ($1), a noncommittal answer when you ask owner Ted Lachowicz if the vintage firearms decorating his back bar are loaded, and shouted warnings that only one person is allowed in the bathroom at a time (to discourage illicit drug use).
—Chuck Sudo
What you get
Two bottles of Old Style: $4.00
Five plays on the jukebox: $1.00
Total tab$5.00
Redwood Lounge(3200 S Wallace St, no phone) Off-duty cops and Bridgeport locals old enough to remember both the Sox’s 1917 and 2005 World Series titles commingle at this famed local corner tavern—when the owners feel like opening it, that is. Such flexibility in business hours keeps the prices down: Five bucks here will get you two bottles of Old Style ($2 each) and five plays on the jukebox ($1). Eric Clapton’s MTV Unplugged CD holds down two slots in the jukebox, so feel free to play “Tears in Heaven” more than once, as the Redwood Lounge regulars aren’t the sort of people who open up to strangers.—CS
What you get
Kamikaze shot: $2.00
Grilled cheese sandwich: $2.25
Two tracks off The Best of Deep Purple: $1.00
Total tab$5.25
Snickers(448 N State St, 312-527-0437) The beauty of hanging out at a bar with a grill behind it is that when the craving for fried food hits—and we know that it hits hard—gratification is just a few steps away. But the cheap perks of this seedy corner bar don’t stop there: Any night of the week you can start things off with the Kamikaze shot ($2). Sop up some of that booze with a grilled cheese sandwich ($2.25) and a few tracks off The Best of Deep Purple ($1 for two songs). Okay, you might be a quarter over your limit, but somebody will definitely lend you some silver to hear “Smoke on the Water.” Or skip the music altogether and drink to the soothing (albeit profanity-laced) sounds of The Maury Povich Show (or whatever other trashy TV show is playing).—David Tamarkin
