Fireside bowl logan square8/7/2023 ![]() “Early photos show an unpaved street and, prior to 1906, the Chicago and North Western tracks at ground level. As a side note, one-time general manager Bob Jones opened up Fireside Restaurant in Beverly on the South Side in 1996, which has since closed. The place was once again sold in 1983 to Maggie Harper and then to Larry Staggs and Rich Wohn in 1989, who added the beer garden and expanded the food & drinks menu. Peter Eberhardt sold his business in 1943 to the McLaughlin family, who then sold it until 1971 to Joe Linoinni. The original wooden siding has been stuccoed over in the English Tudor style and the space between has been transformed into the pub’s entrance. ![]() What is now a single structure was originally built as twin buildings with a breezeway in-between. According to the Edgewater Historical Society, the Fireside has continuously operated as a tavern since 1904 and was built by the original owner, Peter Eberhardt. What more could you want from one of the oldest continuously operating taverns in Chicago?įireside is located on the east side of Ravenswood Avenue, up the street from Ravenswood Pub and just south of Rosehill Cemetery on Rosehill Drive. Fireside also serves an impressive selection of brew and a Bloody Mary bar for brunch on weekends, and is one of the few taverns in the area with a late-night license and a kitchen open until just before close. Today, the off-the-beaten-path Fireside serves a long and Cajun-accented menu, highlighted by ribs and pizza, within the friendly confines of their spacious outdoor beer garden and by the actual fireside in the dining room. The original tavern once served traveling farmers and mourners alike, even offering accommodations. Check out a video we posted a couple days ago.Long before the elevated Metra tracks were laid across the street, before Edgewater existed as a neighborhood and even before Pop Morris’ Green Mill Gardens, the roadhouse now known as the Fireside Restaurant & Lounge has stood across from historic Rosehill Cemetery for more than a century. The drummer inflects jazz rhythms and dynamics that make it impossible to toe-tap, but rather force the listener to concentrate and figure out how exactly this band manages to stay in time with each other. Keyboardist and singer Amelia hits plastic ivory and twists knobs as if defusing a bomb our lives depend on her precision. Tempo changes and odd time signatures abound when the band actually does play in 4/4 time, they do their best to make it sound like anything but. The few empty spaces the band embraces collapse unto themselves into chaotic mindbenders. ![]() Next up, Shapers: a band that certainly doesn’t allow a music writer any conveniences. Catch them again at the Empty Bottle on November 5th as part of the Giant System showcase. Driving tempos and hypnotic bass carried the set full steam ahead. The reverb-laced female vocals allowed the bowling alley to breathe more vertically than horizontally. The term psychedelic will be used all too prevalent with this band, hopefully more as a description rather than a pigeonhole. Verma started off the night with wah-powered jams reminiscent of instrumental Flaming Lips and Spacemen 3. What better introduction to the Fireside than with a couple of bands that Chicago can claim its own. Listening to Allister eulogize the historic Logan Square bowling alley in junior high, I had no idea it was located in the city I grew up in the suburb next to. Finally, a chance to acquaint myself with the legendary lanes of the Fireside Bowl.
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