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Cafés open late in Chicago

Kurdish and Turkish coffee at Kedzie and Lawrence, Serbian burek until midnight, a book-lined café on Fullerton and Greektown until 01:00.

Photo: Igor Starkov, Pexels License

Late coffee in Chicago usually comes attached to something else: a Serbian restaurant, a Greek bakery, a board-game room or a wine bar. The West Loop has the most cafés that stay open into the evening, followed by Uptown and Andersonville, River North and Lincoln Square, and most of them close at 22:00 or 23:00 rather than midnight.

The newest evening scene is on the Northwest Side. In the year to January 2026, four Middle Eastern-style cafés opened along a mile of Kedzie Avenue in Albany Park and North Park, serving spiced light-roast coffee, strong tea and desserts with nuts and honey.1 They work as alcohol-free places to meet after dinner and fill up after sunset during Ramadan.1

Local tip: After midnight the Red and Blue lines are the trains still running; Artopolis on Halsted Street, a short walk from UIC-Halsted on the Blue Line, serves until 01:00 on Friday and Saturday.9

Where these cafés are: West Loop & Fulton Market (5), Lincoln Square & North Center (5), Uptown & Andersonville (3), River North (3), Logan Square & Avondale (2), Gold Coast & Old Town (2), Lincoln Park (1), Wicker Park & Bucktown (1), South Loop (1), The Loop (1).

At a glance

24Cafés listed
21With opening hours
06:00Earliest opening
03:00Latest closing
  • Opens earliest: Dialtone Coffee & Wine Bar, from 06:00 (Mon–Thu 06:00–21:00 · Fri 06:00–22:00 · Sat 07:00–22:00 · Sun 07:00–21:00).
  • Closes latest: Sunny Side Up & Coffee Shoppe, until 03:00 (Mon–Fri 08:00–14:00 · Sat–Sun 08:00–03:00).
  • Most listed streets: South Halsted Street (2), West Irving Park Road (2), North Milwaukee Avenue (2).
  • Most common features: card payment (25%), wi-fi (21%), wheelchair access (21%).
Uptown & Andersonville

All Meal Prep Kitchen & Cafe

  • 1100 West Bryn Mawr Avenue
  • Mon–Wed 07:00–18:00 · Thu 07:00–21:00 · Fri–Sat 07:00–23:00 · Sun 07:00–21:00
  • +13123132011
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West Loop & Fulton Market

Bar Tutto

  • 1110 West Carroll Avenue
  • Mon–Fri 07:00–16:00, 16:30–22:00 · Sat–Sun 08:00–16:00, 16:30–23:00
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Logan Square & Avondale

Snakes & Lattes

  • 1965 North Milwaukee Avenue
  • Mon–Thu 17:00–22:00 · Fri 17:00–23:00 · Sat 11:00–23:00 · Sun 11:00–21:00
  • +1-872-310-3999
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Kedzie, Lawrence and Irving Park

Nubar, a Kurdish café at 3200 W. Lawrence Avenue on the corner of Kedzie, opened in 2025 and pours thick Kurdish and Turkish coffee alongside hummus, muhammara, falafel and shakshuka.1 It serves daily until 22:00. The Yemeni cafés up Kedzie run later: Qamaria stays open until midnight, while Uri Cafe and Shibam close at 22:00.1

Beograd Cafe at 2933 W. Irving Park Road is open daily from 08:00 to midnight. Its house-made burek, flaky pies filled with meat or cheese, is the thing to order with a late coffee.2 Ritual Coffeehouse at 1821 W. Irving Park Road keeps going until 22:00 every day.

Fullerton Avenue and Clark Street

The Bourgeois Pig at 738 W. Fullerton Avenue, a few blocks from DePaul’s Lincoln Park campus, opened in May 1993. Its shelves hold only books published before 1960, the room has two wood-burning fireplaces, and sandwiches carry names such as The Great Gatsby and Hamlet.3 By the café’s own schedule it stays open until 23:00 on Wednesday and Thursday and midnight on Friday and Saturday, with beer and wine all day.4

On Clark Street, Pick Me Up Cafe served Wrigleyville day and night for more than two decades before moving the whole operation to 4882 N. Clark, near Ainslie Street, in 2020.5 It now closes at 22:00 most nights and 23:00 on Saturday. Eli Tea Bar at 5507 N. Clark serves until 22:00 from Monday to Saturday.

Greektown, Randolph Street and River North

Artopolis at 306 S. Halsted Street in Greektown has the latest hours in the West Loop: until midnight from Sunday to Thursday and 01:00 on Friday and Saturday. BomboBar at 832 W. Randolph Street sells doughnuts and coffee until 23:00 every day, FROTH at 1515 W. Monroe Street stays open until 23:00 from Thursday to Saturday, and Bar Tutto on Carroll Avenue breaks at 16:00 and reopens at 16:30 for the evening.

Firecakes Donuts at 68 W. Hubbard Street in River North serves until midnight from Thursday to Saturday and 22:00 on other nights. Farther south, Herb N’ Kitchen at 720 S. Michigan Avenue runs from 06:00 to 23:00 daily.

Board games, wine and the ride home

Snakes & Lattes at 1965 N. Milwaukee Avenue is a board-game café with more than 800 games; as of 2026, entry is $7 per person, or $4 for children 12 and under. It opens at 17:00 on weekdays and 11:00 at weekends, and stays open until 23:00 on Friday and Saturday.6 Cafe Robey at 1616 N. Milwaukee serves brunch all day until 21:00, or 22:00 on Friday and Saturday.7

In Old Town, Dialtone Coffee & Wine Bar at 1140 N. Wells Street opens at 06:00 on weekdays and closes at 21:00, or 22:00 on Friday and Saturday. For the trip home, the Red Line runs 24 hours between Howard and 95th/Dan Ryan, and the Blue Line runs around the clock between O’Hare and Forest Park via downtown.89

Sources

  1. Kedzie Avenue in Albany Park Becomes a Hub for Middle Eastern-Style Cafes, as Four Open Within a Mile in a Year, WTTW (Daniel Hautzinger, January 16, 2026), accessed October 2026
  2. Beograd Cafe and Restaurant, Time Out Chicago (March 10, 2010), accessed October 2026
  3. The Bourgeois Pig: A ‘hog in the wall’ café makes nostalgia cool, The DePaulia (Rose O’Keeffe, May 14, 2023), accessed October 2026
  4. About: Hours and Location, Bourgeois Pig Cafe, accessed October 2026
  5. Pick Me Up Cafe Moving to Uptown, Uptown Update (March 2, 2020), accessed October 2026
  6. Snakes & Lattes Chicago, Snakes & Lattes, accessed October 2026
  7. Cafe Robey, Cafe Robey, accessed October 2026
  8. Red Line, Chicago Transit Authority, accessed October 2026
  9. Blue Line, Chicago Transit Authority, accessed October 2026
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FAQ

Open late in Chicago: questions

Which Chicago cafés stay open until midnight?

Artopolis at 306 S. Halsted Street in Greektown serves until midnight from Sunday to Thursday and until 01:00 on Friday and Saturday. Beograd Cafe on Irving Park Road is open daily until midnight, and the Bourgeois Pig on Fullerton Avenue stays open until midnight on Friday and Saturday.

Where can you drink Kurdish or Turkish coffee late in Chicago?

Nubar, a Kurdish café at 3200 W. Lawrence Avenue on the corner of Kedzie, serves thick Kurdish and Turkish coffee with mezze such as hummus and falafel until 22:00 daily. The Middle Eastern cafés along Kedzie in Albany Park work as alcohol-free places to meet after dinner.

Which trains run all night after a late café visit in Chicago?

The CTA Red Line runs 24 hours between Howard and 95th/Dan Ryan, and the Blue Line runs around the clock between O’Hare and Forest Park via downtown. The Blue Line stops at UIC-Halsted, a short walk from Artopolis in Greektown, which serves until 01:00 on Friday and Saturday.

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