Queen Mary Tavern

NOMINATE QM FOR AWARDS!

Nominations are open for the ‘s Best of Chicago Awards 2024! We’d be honored to receive a nod from you:

* Music and Nightlife > Best Established Bar: Queen Mary
* Music and Nightlife > Best Neighborhood Bar: Queen Mary
* Food & Drink > Best Bartender: Dan Smith

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Next week is , the annual global celebration of Spain’s greatest wine, organized by the Consejo Regulador of the DO Jerez-Xérès-Sherry (). As your local sherry HQ, we always have a wide selection, but this week we had to do something special — so we’re offering, for a limited time only, the whole range of wines from the legendary , the only sherry producer whose exclusive focus is very old sherry.

If you know sherry well, you’ll know these are spectacular wines, and if you’re just sherry-curious, what better way to get acquainted with the region than with some of its very best? Supplies are limited, so join us November 4-10 to drink these while they last!

October marks the start of Alba white truffle season, which means we’re starting to prepare for our annual holiday tradition, the White Truffle Martini! Yesterday we selected our truffles, fresh off the plane from Italy; today we’re shaving them into a few bottles of Reisetbauer Blue Gin, and by Thanksgiving the infusion will be ready. Quantities are highly limited and demand can be high, so watch this space and you’ll be the first to know when this rare and beautiful luxury hits the menu, only at Queen Mary.

Things are getting seasonal around here — next Tuesday the 1st, join us to carve a pumpkin and enjoy some cocktails! Carving starts at 5, and we’ll be showing episodes of Over the Garden Wall starting at 7. Pumpkins are free — sign up here to reserve yours today: https://partiful.com/e/3eVou4gRaMYZkFdAQmj9

A very special time has come around once more at Queen Mary: we’ve received our first shipment of Concord grapes of the season, which means it’s Enzoni season!

The Enzoni is a modern classic cocktail, created in 2006 at foundational bar Milk & Honey by Vincenzo Errico. It’s a simple drink, comprised of gin, lemon juice, Campari and muddled grapes. Errico’s original recipe calls for plain white table grapes, but for seven years now we’ve offered our own strictly seasonal interpretation, which for us is truly the essential and definitive version of this drink, using fresh Concord grapes.

Jammy, yet brisk and dry, with a beautifully sophisticated balance of sweet, sour, bitter and astringent, it’s truly the essence of fall, and for seven years running it has been our welcome to the harvest season and cooler temperatures.

The Enzoni is on the menu today, and we’ll run it as long as we have the grapes in stock — but Concords have a short season, just a few weeks, so don’t miss out!

Exotic citrus season continues at Queen Mary with the magnificent bergamot orange, the Italian sour orange best known as the flavor of Earl Grey tea. Its momentary season is right now, so come enjoy a classic martini garnished with a beautiful bergamot peel, today til we run out!

We love to get creative on our cocktail menu, but sometimes you just want a Manhattan. We serve all classic cocktails, all the time — just ask your bartender!

Happiest 100th birthday to the Queen, our beloved late landlady and namesake, Maria Kafka, 1923–2019. We wouldn’t have a bar without her blessing and inspiration. We miss her very much and hope she’d be proud to see the tavern she loved fill up with happy guests night after night.

Dan and the team at Queen Mary wish you all a joyous, healthy and prosperous New Year! It’s an honor and a pleasure to fix you all drinks every night, and we can’t wait to spend 2023 doing the same.

We wish you all a joyful and warm holiday! Queen Mary will be closed on the 24th and 25th and will return to regular hours on the 26th.

Enzonis may have come and gone, but winter brings its own seasonal delights - such as exotic citrus! We launch this year's season with fresh yuzus, grown in California and just arrived to garnish your martini. Every day, now til we run out!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone! We’re closed today, but we will return for our regular hours tomorrow.

In our world of year-round agriculture, it’s easy to lose track of the passage of time — but some crops insist on reminding us, such as the Concord grape. Each year at Queen Mary we mark the arrival of harvest season by serving a beautiful, strictly seasonal modern classic cocktail, the Enzoni. Gin, lemon, Campari and fresh Concord grapes — there’s nothing like it, and you can only get it right now. Join us for our favorite and most delicious house tradition, today until the grapes run out.

We could not be more proud and honored to see Queen Mary bartender Paige Walwyn selected as one of ‘s Class of 2022 Bartenders in Residence! Paige relocated from New Jersey to Chicago last year and joined our team in the fall, and her first two menu cocktails — the Bay Watch and the Guava Spritz — are both standouts this season, at once tropical, light and complex. Find her behind the bar at QM every Thursday and Saturday, and don’t miss PUNCH’s interview with Paige and features of her drinks throughout the coming year. Congratulations Paige!

A fond farewell and a thousand best wishes to this talented bartender — Jesse is moving on after nearly five wonderful years. We’ll miss you, pal, and we can’t thank you enough for all you have done at Queen Mary. Catch Jesse very soon in his new role as bar manager of The Berkshire Room!

Happy weekend! We’re here Friday, Saturday and Sunday, serving the best drinks in the festival, as always. Come by, we can’t wait to see you!

Hours for the weekend:
3pm–1am Friday
Noon–1am Saturday
Noon–1am Sunday

No oyster happy hour this Sunday 6/5, but it’ll return as normal on Monday 6/6.

For the first time since 2019, the Street Festival returns to our block this weekend! We’ll be right in the center of it all, open extended hours serving the best drinks in the festival. Hours for the weekend:

Friday 5pm – 1am
Saturday noon – 1am
Sunday noon – 1am

We can’t wait to see you all for the festival that unofficially launches the summer in Chicago!

Please note there will be no Oyster Happy Hour this Sunday, June 5th. Oysters and martinis will return as normal on Monday, June 6th.

Did you know that, on top of everything else, Queen Mary is the best place in town to drink sherry? Discover one of the greatest hidden treasures in wine, the fascinating fortified wines of Andalucía, in the southwest of Spain. This manzanilla pasada is especially beautiful, totally dry and on our menu now!

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Things change quickly these days — we’re open til 11pm now, but for patio seating and to-go orders only. This presents a real challenge for QM and all bars and restaurants, since not many people are eager to sit outside in the winter. We know, it’s cold out, but we’ve got heaters and hot drinks for you, so let us encourage you to bundle up and brave the elements on our patio! Think of it like going to a Bears game! We promise, the drinks will make it worthwhile, and these days will pass before long.

A clever mixture of fresh-pressed Granny Smith apple juice, pumpkin seeds and two gins — meet the Rings of Saturn! It’s seasonal, sure, but we think it’ll still take you by surprise.

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Tuesday Nights are now officially movie night at Queen Mary! We're talking free popcorn, themed cocktail specials available that night only and some of your all time favorite films. Join us TONIGHT as we kick things off with a Cohen's Classics double-feature - The Big Lebowski and O Brother, Where Art Thou? Starts at 8!

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