River North’s Gallery Bar is an art gallery-slash-street food concept that specializes in Mexi-Asian-Caribbean-Polynesian fusion wraps called “Bonzai” and also serves a large selection of beer cocktails.
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Alright. That sentence was probably a little stomach-churny for anyone with a low tolerance for the sort of unabashed trendiness and worldly urbanism that that simultaneously makes restaurants (and bars and clubs) into parodies of themselves and attracts a clientele that’s too busy watching The Bachelorette or whatever to realize it’s supposed to be rolling its eyes.
The cocktails were somewhat less impressive. A beer cocktail made with peach lambic and St. Germain lacks the fizz that beer is supposed to impart on a liquor drink. A lemony gin and champagne drink on the craft cocktail menu has a mildly unpleasant dry, puckery mouthfeel. The Factory Girl, made with Woodford Reserve and pear liqueur is a serviceable bourbon cocktail.
