Flipside Café (CLOSED)

Will Von Hartz has popped up in the Miko's Italian Ice space (which normally shutters for the season), transforming the small room into a charming temporary hideaway for cold-weather necessities like pour-over coffee, grilled smoked-Gouda-and-cheddar sandwiches and double-chocolate cookies. Defying the constraints of the hole-in-the-wall space, everything from the garlic-rosemary sandwich bread to the Valhrona chocolate cake is made in-house, a feat that can't help but make us wonder whether the Flipside will be the first thing we will ever miss about Chicago winters.