If pool isn’t your bag, there is a Golden Tee, candy machines and pinball to keep you occupied. This room used to be an alley beer garden. If it’s really crowded, they’ll open up the back pool room, which sports additional tables and mirrored beer signs. If you get the table at the easternmost end of the room, you can spend time between shots checking out the talent walking by on the sidewalk, over the brass bar and tartan curtain that runs along the windows. This room has hardwood floors, a black drop ceiling, and maroon-painted walls adorned with mirrored beer signs and old pictures of Chicago.
Here you will find several regulation size tables with plenty of elbow room between them, along with pretty good cues and plenty of chalk. When your table is ready, head to the pool room to the right of the front bar area. Pool costs of $9 an hour during the week, and $12 on Friday and Saturday prompted the writers of Shecky’s Bar, Club & Lounge Guide 2002 to comment, “You shouldn’t have to hock your engagement ring to have a drink and shoot some pool.” When your name is called, they’ll pass you your tray of balls after you give them your credit card. If you want to play pool, just tell the bartender and they’ll take your name. As you’re filling up on brew and grub, you can also check out the game on the room’s big screen. The Corner Pocket also serves a good variety of pub grub that is one step above what you usually find (including some pretty damn good buffalo wings). For those seeking more sophisticated fare, the Pocket has 18 blends of Scotch available almost rivaling that of Duke of Perth. The vast drinks selection, illustrated on the large chalkboard behind the bar, comes in handy as there is usually an hour wait for tables (unless you get there between Monday and Wednesday). The bar offers a wide variety of beers on tap and in bottles, including Stella Artois and Samuel Smith Purebrewed lagers. The front room offers a long wooden bar to your left and table seating along the side and in the back.
Walk through the glass door, up the handicap-accessible ramp, through the next glass door, and have your ID ready as they card as religiously as bw-3 around the corner.
While it used to have a green awning, the Corner Pocket now sports a tasteful wooden sign of billiard balls enclosed in a triangle. The Corner Pocket is located in the Wrightwood Neighbors section of Lincoln Park, just north of the Shell station at the corner of Halsted and Wrightwood and kitty-corner to La Bamba (burritos as big as your head, gringo). And now with the demise of PhilosoFur’s, in favor of aberration Cherry Red, the Corner Pocket is one of the few places where you can shoot some stick on something other than a tiny, slanted, beer-soaked table like the one found at nearby Burwood Tap. Editor’s note: The Corner Pocket closed in 2006 during the weekend of August 4 after 17 years, and has been replaced by “Victory Liquors.”įrom the same people that brought you the Daily, Hudson Club (now closed), Southport Lanes, and Lucky Strike, the Corner Pocket is one of the best places to order from an impressive beer selection, grab some better-than-usual quality pub grub, and play some pool on some of the best kept, full-size pool tables on the North Side.
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