Chicago Restaurant Guide

Welcome to Resi's!! Along with having one of the more interesting names for a bar in the city, Resi's Bierstube is also notable for being one of the last, and best, German brauhauses in the city. "Bierstube" means beer hall in German, and it wasn't too long ago that there were more of them than you could shake a stick at in Chicago's Lincoln Square neighborhood and elsewhere on the North Side. Now that Zum Deutschen Eck, the Golden Ox, Schulien's, Augenblick, Von Stuke's Hofbrau, and even Heidelberger Fass have gone, Resi's is one of the few remaining places where you can go for a Schnitzel and a Hefeweizen. It's continued existence is not by luck - Resi's Bierstube has an impressive selection of German beer and authentic dishes, has one of the best (and least known), beer gardens around, and you can't beat Resi's atmosphere for German kitsch.

Intriguingly nestled between the office of a podiatrist and a dentist's, Resi's is located on Irving Park Road across from another German bar known as Laschet's Inn. While located south of the German neighborhood of Lincoln Square, these two bars make up there own little version of Germantown in the North Center neighborhood. Resi's can be spotted with its Germanic façade, flower planters, shingled roof, and white walls with crisscrossing wooden beams. Walk under the old wooden sign depicting Resi's coat of arms, step through the frosted glass double-door entryway bedecked in Oktoberfest posters, and you'll enter a piece of 70's Germericana.