Bears, Hawks, Sox, Bulls, Booze @ Harold's #41 Lincoln Park

I'd driven by for a couple months awaiting the arrival of Harold's Bar & Grill #41 on Clybourn just south of Fullerton on the outskirts of Lincoln Park. I forget what was last occupying this space but it's never been kind to any of its tenants although maybe the unofficial fried chicken of Chicago and its name can switch that.


Fullerton/Clybourn

They opened up shop this past weekend and I had remembered seeing the lights on driving by earlier in the day so we headed over to watch the end of MNF while having a beer and some fried chicken. Something that's going to get easier and easier to do in Chicago as the trend moves in.


As you enter

It has two separate rooms with tables in each and an ordering station in one room and the bar in the other. Each rooms have flat screens for your viewing pleasure. This isn't your typical southside Harold's Chicken Shack it's more like a bar that serves fried chicken. But that fried chicken is indeed Harold's. The owners of this new LP location also own the other #41 which is the the Greektown location and also a Harold's om Cottage Grove and a numbered street which escapes me. The menu has all the chicken options including livers and gizzards as well as the fish options and some other sides not seen at all of them.


The Bar inside

The fact they're open 'til Midnight on the Weekdays and 2am on Weekends and serve alcoholic beverages might make this a popular place for some. My wings were fried right and brought that hot and mild taste to my tongue so I'll be back more than once I'm sure. Its only a five minute ride for me. Harold's continues it's push into Northerners territory. This once dead area for food also has Polka Deli kiddie corner now too. Great Polish Sausage. More on them later.


Harold's Hot & Mild Wings

Harold's Bar & Grill #41
2360 N Clybourn Ave
Chicago, IL 60614
(773) 697-9495

Boy, this space has been so many things I couldn't begin to name them. There was once a decent, somewhat upscale Italian place there whose name escapes me. Then it became a really gaudy upscale Italian place whose name escapes me, too. Anyhow, glad to know Harold's moved in. It's a tough location, traffic- and parking-wise - I hope they can make a go of it. I'll give 'em some business, for what that's worth.

I'm surprised they re repeating the number 41. Thanks to the work of Mike Sula, I was under the impression that each store had its own number.

Boy, this space has been so many things I couldn't begin to name them. There was once a decent, somewhat upscale Italian place there whose name escapes me.

Marco > Pearl Supper Club (same owner I believe) > unnamed bar and restaurant > empty for three years > unnamed bar and restaurant > Harolds

One of the stranger food neighborhoods in the city. In addition to Marco Conti's string of failures then the "Big House," consider the area stalwarts -- the enigmatic Player's Club, El Presidente (neon "24/7, 365 days a year and holidays"), the art brut decorated Lincoln Park Noodle House, that horrid Wendy's hard by the garbage dump. Not even a Starbuck's could survive on Ashland just north of Fullerton in the condos that took out Skipper's Red Hots years ago, with its vast sign depicting a rough sea captain groping a steaming frank. (That Skipper was taken out by Starbuck seemed apt.) And then there's the Liar's Club, which is cool.

Really fond memories. When I 1st got to NU, there was a Harold's in Evanston & they delivered. Late. There would be coupons for 2 pieces, w/ fries, & bread for $1.99. I think the minimum to deliver was $5 but in a dorm that was not a problem.

I fondly remember, the chicken laying on top of the fries & bread. I always got hot & mild sauces on the side. And yes, it came in that box.

Yesterday, I had not read this thread, I was driving along Clybourn and I almost had an accident when I saw that Harold's. I thought no way!

So before year's end I'm sure I will stop in for an order of fries & white bread with the sauce on the side.

That location was also

stevez wrote:Marco > Pearl Supper Club (same owner I believe) > unnamed bar and restaurant > empty for three years > unnamed bar and restaurant > Harolds

At one (brief) point that location was a place called Ferrari, I believe right before the Pearl Supper Club. The building was originally wrapped in red covering the windows, before Pearl's black wrap and then it came down at some point.