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Photograph: Marcin CymmerSang-Rio at SPiN

2016 Olympics restaurant and bar specials

Whether you want great Brazilian food or want a cheap drink with a side of Olympics, these spots have you covered

Written by
Elizabeth Atkinson
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Whether you're just looking for a great place to watch the Olympics or hoping to score a great Brazilian dish or fun cocktail with cachaça, Chicago's restaurants and bars are gearing up for a few weeks of excitement for the 2016 Rio Olympics. 

  • Restaurants
  • Latin American
  • West Loop
  • price 2 of 4

Enjoy Brazilian bites at Carnivale August 1–7. Every night, the restaurant will be doing a dinner special of moqueca de bacalhau ($28) with cod, Bahia  seafood stew, bacon lardons and yucca dumplings. Pair them with one of the $11 drink specials, including papaya, açai and strawberry capirinhas.

  • Bars
  • Hotel bars
  • Loop

BIG Bar has plenty of TVs to watch the game and great drink specials to go along with it. Grab a caipirinha ($12), a $20 bucket of Miller or Coors, $25 Miller Lite towers or a $4 16-ounce Miller Lite draft.

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SPiN
  • Things to do
  • Quirky events
  • River North

For the full two weeks of the Olympics, head to SPiN for the Sang-Rio cocktail ($13) to catch your favorite sport and watch some ping pong while you're at it. The drink's packed with cachaça, creole bitters, Chartreuse, Costa Nostra shrub, honey syrup, orange liqueur and sherry.

Stanley’s Kitchen & Tap
  • Restaurants
  • Soul and southern American
  • Lincoln Park
  • price 1 of 4

For the opening night of the Olympics, head to a watch party at Stanley's Kitchen & Tap with $4 Budweiser, $4 'Merica Whiskey shots and $12 buckets of Coors Banquet.

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Commonwealth Tavern
  • Bars
  • Gastropubs
  • North Center
  • price 2 of 4

Commonwealth Tavern will be serving up food and drink specials including sandwiches and tacos all under $14 for the entirety of the Olympics. Stop by to watch your game and eat on the cheap.

  • Restaurants
  • Contemporary American
  • River North
  • price 2 of 4

Head to the Hubbard Inn for a month of specials changing week to week. Focusing on a different country each week (United States, Italy, Spain and France) there's a $10 classic cocktail in the spirit of the week's country along with dishes in the same vein.

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