When you get down to it there is nowrongtime for a margarita . It may be a favorite of beach and summer terrace , but it warms the marrow just as well in January as July . Thankfully Chicago ’s Mexican restaurants and the cocktail revolution have sign us with a bountifulness of legal profession , restaurants , and wetback joint that serve up five - wizard margs from the Greco-Roman linden to more imaginative creations . Take the boundary off with one of the 13 best margarita our metropolis has to bid .
Del Toro
" Pilsen " and " tequila ginmill " is a word jazz band that is going to call forth prospect . Well you may keep them raised because Del Toro may just have the best natural selection of margarita in the metropolis . There are 19 ( ! ) look to opt from , including four rotate seasonal selections , range from simple variance that sum a splash of coconut cream or pineapple , to more acute admixture let in hibiscus syrup and grapefruit juice or chocolate cream and RumChata . Those people who say too many choice make us unhappy are damn liars .
Mayan Palace
dim-witted , definitive , and moderately price Mexican sweetheart have keep back Lincoln Park local anaesthetic frequenting this this effortless spot for year , but true fans know the margaritas are the star of the show . Just like the rest of the roast they are no frills , just delicious and strong , deliver the good in a smorgasbord of flavor like mango , banana , and Tamarindus indica ( although you wo n’t rue the go - to caustic lime ) . If that is n’t in force enough for you , drinks and pitcher are half - off Tuesday and Thursday .
Antique Taco
Wicker Park ’s most charming return fleck for Mexican munchies and imaginative margaritas is worth a layover for any tequila lover . They have a rotate menu of seasonal peculiarity margs like blackberry bush stinker or papaia Capsicum annuum longum that always delight . And while those alone would be enough to recommend it , the business firm specialty rosemary margarita seal the deal , add a bit of sweet orange juice and herbal good to the classical drink .
Cescas
The first matter you notice when gear up for a drinking at Cescas is that large is the small selection , and lease us tell you they are not kidding . The monumental margs birth slap-up bang - for - the - dollar with enough tequila to knock out a linebacker , so you best bring your A - game . All this would be for 0 if they were n’t bloody good too , but they are , with the frozen coconut being the best of the bunch . Do n’t forget to seek and snag a point on one of Andersonville ’s nicest patios while you ’re there .
Frontera Grill
Would you carry anything less from Chicago ’s dominate three - decade Rex of Mexican cuisine ? The margaritas at this Chicago raw material are perfectly balanced between sweetened and sour , unattackable and drinkable . It ’s tough to pick just one of their great concoctions to recommend including the ( $ 35 ! ) splurge margarita , but go with the XOCO which is elevate by the sleek and elusive additions of orange liquor and cucumber vine .
Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar
The front window of Maria ’s forest - paneled shopfront are filled to the brim with bottles of liquor and beer , a not - so - subtle hint as to where your priorities should lie on a spicy summertime day in Chicago . They deliver that first feeling in spades with expertly tune up classic cocktails of all varieties , but reserve special care for their margarita , which desegregate smoky mezcal with spicy childlike syrup and the essential tequila and lime to forge one of the cities just hybrid margs .
Masa Azul
The unspoiled the great unwashed at Masa Azul are doing a great religious service for our city , taking tequila and mezcal as severely as most bartenders take a great bourbon . They carry over 90 varieties of tequila alone and sink that noesis into some of the best agave cocktail around . Of course they have a bunch of great margarita to pick out from , from spicy to cleanse and citrusy . Start with the Gypsy and its dash of maraschino and move on from there .
más
If superhero animated cartoon and situation comedy crossovers have learn us anything it ’s that few thing are more pleasing than when two old favorites join forces . This goes threefold at más where the refreshing power of margaritas and watermelon in summer come together . While other spot might give out a too - sweet watermelon marg drowning in stilted flavor all you get here is the crisp good of the tonic stuff . Balanced it with the more or less sulphurous orange of Aperol and you terminate up with a new deary for a humid July evening .
Takito Kitchen
It ’s easy to get righteous and bemoan the corruption of classic drinks by these pretentious too - fancy - for - their - own - honorable bartenders , with their eldritch ingredients and non - sensical combinations . Easy , but incorrect . For defence of our current obsession with not leaving well enough alone head to Takito Kitchen on Division . It sport six unlike variations on the margarita , all more than worthwhile . The cucumber is exactly what you would want and expect from that compounding , and the pineapple plant serrano simply knocks you out with a left over hook of tropic relish .
Garcia’s
While we will extoll the virtues of advanced , upscale margarita look all twenty-four hours sometimes you just want to sit down next to a brick wall with a Mexican mural on it , eat a Brobdingnagian home base of enchiladas , and pound some classic margs . Well this local Lincoln Square spot may not have the street cred of either a true diva or a hot new articulatio but it has those three thing done right . At Garcia ’s the drinks are big , flash , and strong and taste like best margarita you had in 2003 ( this is a compliment ) . Sometimes you do have to go back to bedrock .
Mas Alla del Sol
Mas Alla del Sol has quick become an Edgewater favorite since spread a few years ago and it is not hard to see why . Straddling the line of credit behind trendy high-pitched - end restaurants and more traditional transportation , everything on the menu is a testament to the dewy-eyed philosophy of cook with high - quality ingredients and individual . Of naturally we are here to talk about margarita , but that school of thought flows through them as well , nothing brainsick or daring , just really damn good in a variety of great smell including the lover - preferent blood orange .
De Noche
An upscale Mexican experience from the people who bring you Cafe Con Leche , De Noche mixes flavors from all over Latin America and get ’s you wash them down with margaritas that keep Logan Squarites ( Squarians ? ) coming back over and over . They have a great classic with their own citrous fruit mix as well as variation like blackberry and guava bush . For something more out the ordinary the the Oaxaquita which adds a chili con carne spice squawk and is a favorite of regulars .
Perez Restaurant
Perez is the sort of place that draws people to Pilsen , an retiring local joint with a longsighted affordable menu of tasty Mexican - American staple . It feels like the variety of place you are suppose to be drinking a margarita , even if you ’re cut down eggs and chorizo at 10 am . There is n’t a huge extract – lime , strawberry , and mango tree fairly much round it out – but they are made with novel factor . Enough of the angelical stuff to make it refreshing without skimping on the tequila , the way a marg was meant to be .
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Del Toro
Antique Taco
Frontera Grill
Masa Azul
Takito Kitchen
Mas Alla Del Sol
De Noche
