Midnight Pig Tap Room

It’s an interesting concept. You get a card, place it under one of about 15 video screens, each of which provides details for two different beers. Put your mason-jar-with-a-handle-style mug under a tap … the screen tells you how much you’ll be charged per ounce, and you pour as much as you want. When you’re finished pouring, the screen tells you how much you’ll be charged.

About half of the beers are from Midnight Pig, the Plainfield brewery formerly known as Nevin’s, and to some extent this replaces Tommy Nevin’s Pub, which was approximately across the street. That pub is now closed, since much of that block will be torn down and replaced with a large apartment building, with ground floor retail space. (Nearby Prairie Moon, another beer-centric restaurant, will be anchoring the building’s retail space, but during construction it will temporarily relocate to the old basement site of Dave’s Italian Kitchen, on Chicago Avenue.)

Midnight Pig Tap Room has a nice space; tables, hi-tops, and a lounge area. Last night, having just come from nearby Boltwood, which had a special one-off collaboration with Homestead Meats, we didn’t sample the food, although judging from next door’s Pete Miller’s steakhouse (same management company), the food is likely to be solid. (Full disclosure, Moetchandon works at Homestead Meats, a high-end butcher shop in Evanston.)

Midnight Pig, fan me a count (or something like that).

Midnight Pig
1557 Sherman
Evanston, IL 60201

Prairie Moon
soon to reopen at:
1635 Chicago Ave

Evanston, IL 60201

Homestead Meats
1305 Chicago Ave
Evanston, IL 60201

Thanks for starting a thread and providing your first impression.

nr706 wrote:Prairie Moon, ..., during construction it will temporarily relocate to the old basement site of Dave’s Italian Kitchen, on Chicago Ave

Valuable info!