Marble

Just went to Marble on Monday.
This place is great very chill new bar in the Logan Square area. Monday was $1 Taco night. Fresh Veggie Tacos in a hard shell were a very tasty cheap eat. the wings are comically small but the prices are super cheap so I was cool with it. Going in for Friday's rib night. I suspect it will be good since it is the former owners of Cleo's.

Marble
3281 W Armitage
Chicago Il 60647
773-252-9652
http://marblelogansquare.com/

I went to Marble's site and checked the gallery. Some truly unusual choices of photos to portray the character of the place. Marble-encrusted bar looks cool.



Food, fun...and patio!!



First dates can be awkward...but not at Marbles!!





Hey wingnut, please don't take offense at my good natured ribbing re: photos on Marble's site. They just seem so...gimpy.

Hit Marble last night. Agree with the comically small wings, but the flavor was great. Buffalo and Hot. I think they were only $3 for 10. It was taco night so we each had 4 beef, they were $.50 a piece. We kinda joked that they were like "school" tacos. Completely American, not an ounce of Mexican in them. But strangely, we were ok with them. The $1 guacamole was delicious and full of lime. They have a very extensive beer list and the overall vibe is just a cool place to hang out and have some cheap eats.

Seems I'm becoming a bit of a regular here for taco night. Last night, I had a hit the head, why didn't I think of that, it's so good moment. Italian beef and giardiniera quesadilla. Just what it says it is with some really good tasting cheese. The cheese and the crunch of the giardiniera, really made for a great combo.

I quite like Marble. When I first saw the food menu and the prices, I assumed that everything would be kind of gross and really just a way to lure people from the neighborhood in for drinks. While the latter business strategy may be true, the food is not gross. For what it is, it's actually not bad. And it is ridiculously cheap. The wings, while small, taste pretty good, and if you go on Thursdays when you get 20 wings for $2.00, the value more than makes up for the wing size. Both the buffalo sauce and the spicy pico lime sauce were pretty good. I have also enjoyed their pita pizzas. The roasted red pepper and goat chese pizza was surprisingly good. As was the avocado garlic hummus. I thought it was a weird combination for hummus, but it ended up working well

This is not really a destination on any gourmet eating tour of Chicago, but if you're looking for a neighborhood bar with some decent and well priced beer and food, you could do a lot worse. I will say that the pictures above absolutely convey the vibe in the bar however. While, in my experience, most bars tend to have more male than female customers at any given time, the crowd at Marble really takes this to another level. The times that I have been there, the male-to-female ratio typical sits somewhere around 10 to 1. Not sure how one fixes this, but it does have the (perhaps) unintended consequence of giving the place more of a sports bar feel than the owners may have intended. Otherwise, good place.

Eight months after new ownership took over, longtime neighborhood bar Marble will close in Logan Square and give way to a new concept with a new name.

http://chicago.eater.com/2015/2/19/8069 ... boldt-park