Edelweiss Tavern

Great prices and the owner is very friendly. Went in for a quick beer– came to me cold & fast.

Cool, chill vibe. Pool table, darts, jukebox, great bartenders, and the owners Oksana and Sergiy really strive to provide the best experience and hospitality.

Went in here for a drink and stayed all night. This place is low key and feels like old time chicago. This a great place to relax and play pool. The owners are super friendly and even bought us a shot after having a smoke with us outside. If you want to chill out and have a good time, you should check this place out

Came here for an NFL game. Decent drinks. Nothing special here. Thought it was an alright local bar until a group of 20 something’s started smoking pot openly. The bartender didn’t care at all until an older women started yelling about it as she ran out coughing with asthma. I’m relatively 420 friendly but I did not expect this here and really ruined my mood during the game.
This may or may not intrigue you to come here.

This is just a dive bar in a scary rough neighborhood in Chicago. Nothing special. for some reason it is always listed as top Chicago bars in Chicago Reader and other publications. it is just an average three star bar. Very ganglland tough looking neighborhood in Chicago that you will ever find.

So much fun!!!
From the first time I went there I’ve been treated like nothing other than a valued customer.
It’s basically everything you could want from a place. Great service, very friendly bartenders, owners are always around. Cheap drinks, good mix of people, pool table, dart board, jukebox.
Let’s not forget good selection of song for karaōke hosted by very friendly and funny Alex and Danny. (Every Friday at 9pm) Everybody supports everybody singing (trust me I know lol.)
Great place and good deals if you want a place to celebrate your Birthday!!!

A young person’s old man dive bar.
New owners have recently purchased the former Wee Willy’s and turned it into Edelweiss. They haven’t changed much physically about the place but they have made this one of the friendliest bars you will ever go to. I am a regular at their Friday night karaōke parties. Oksana, the owner/​bartender, pours with a heavy hand and a cute smile but the drinks are light on the wallet. They specialize in favored vodkas. My current favorite is the Gatorade flavored vodka, Dude, by Three Olives. I’m not sure if it has electrolights but that shit will light you up just the same. The bombers of Polish beer are good and cheap too.
This is a good place for night owls. Whenever I have gone to Edelweiss, there has only been a handful of folks before 10 pm but by midnight the place gets pretty full. If you’re looking for the ultimate karaōke bender, you could start at Edelweiss and then stumble down to Alice’s which is a block or so away to sing your heart out until dawn.
Maybe you can thank the hipsters but I find that the quality old man dive bars no longer attract many old men but younger folks looking for a good time. The night clubs with bottle service that were popular 5 and 10 years ago all seem to be gone. Who wants to throw away their hard earned cash on that pretentious bullshit, anyways? Enjoy the dive bar renaissance and get your ass down to Edelweiss!

Just came in from our Belmont Ave adventure. We saw the name on Metromix and decided to drop in for a few. On the tube was ABC then someone asked for the Bulls game. We were handed a plate of assorted salty treats. Metallica and Madonna played in the background, masking the murmurs of the three guys in there. One introduced himself, but the rest kept to themselves. For a Friday night where you need a moment to think and have cheap drinks without yelling, it’s perfect. For the two of for three rounds of mixed drinks it came to $ 21. Not bad.

Happy Night, AKA Wee Willy’s, is back! I discovered this spot just before they closed down a year or so ago, but it’s back with the same ownership, now that the hospitable and sweet Janina is back in health. This quaint little Polish «dive» draws a mixed Hispanic, Polish, and Czech population, and some of the regulars will go out of their way to introduce themselves if you’re an unfamiliar face. The bar is actually pretty clean and safe for this rough-​edged neighborhood– the regulars won’t tolerate the rascaltries that plague some of the other area spots, and most are quite coherent and conversational. Though standbys Miller, Corona, and Heineken are offered, the highlight is the giant Eastern European beers– the 1 pint 9 oz. Stiegl (Austria), Hacker-​Pschorr (Germany), Zywiec (Poland), and Czechvar (Czech Republic), each around $ 4-​$ 5. The juke is kinda lame– Scorpions, Metalica, plus Polish and Czech unpronounceables and they’ve downsized the stage & PA system, but there’s a pool table.
The owner didn’t know anything about the name Wee Willy’s on the door (I think she just kept it from the previous ownership), but it could either be a reference to an early comic strip or a ball player from the 1910s.