Nisei Lounge

Today is LAST CALL for the 2026 Lakeview Dive Bar Classic! Open by noon or so. Come thirsty and go the distance! lakevieweast.com/dive-bar-cla...

Dive Bar Classic 2026 February 9 - March 1, 2026 The legend returns. The Lakeview East Dive Bar Classic is here once again, to cure your winter blues, and to show your love for dives. Let’s raise a glass to our beloved hav...

Last Saturday of the 2026 Lakeview Dive Bar Classic! Open at noon! Go the distance and earn your souvenir shirts! lakevieweast.com/dive-bar-cla...

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How do you make Taco Tuesday during 👁️❤️🤿🍫 Week even better?

That’s right, with a visit from the Malort Prize Patrol! So visit us tomorrow 7-9pm to get in on their wheel o’ swag!

Dive Bar Classic 2026 February 9 - March 1, 2026 The legend returns. The Lakeview East Dive Bar Classic is here once again, to cure your winter blues, and to show your love for dives. Let’s raise a glass to our beloved hav...

Out of bed buttercups!

We got the @oldstylebeer prize patrol and photo booth here 2-5pm or so and we’re a stop on the Lakeview Chamber 👁️❤️🤿🧼🍻 bus. lakevieweast.com/dive-bar-cla...

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Happy Valentine’s Day. We love you all (and your discretionary drinking dollars) very much.

May we show you our #NiseiLabs with a vaguely pinkish strawberry serrano pepper infused Malort?

The flavor is…complicated. Just like true love.

A friendly reminder from your friends at Nisei Lounge:

Welcome to Truth In Advertising Month at Nisei Lounge

FINAL WEEKEND…to visit with our plunging polar penguins Tinker, Evers, and Joe Borowski 2…before they head to spring training!

And of course their plunge coach Yeti Rothschild (left). Get your selfie with them this weekend before they waddle south!

From Thursday's #Jeopardy, in category "E" BEFORE "I".

@niseilounge.bsky.social @kenjennings.bsky.social

Japanese American soldiers once branded 'enemy aliens' to be promoted posthumously Japanese American soldiers will be promoted in a ceremony, decades after they died fighting for the U.S. during World War II despite having been branded “enemy aliens.”

Remember their sacrifice for our country.

Daniel Betsui
Jenhatsu Chinen
Robert Murata
Grover Nagaji
Akio Nishikawa
Hiroichi Tomita
Howard Urabe

May they rest in peace and their sacrifice never forgotten. cc: @jamuseum.bsky.social

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Good morning Chicago!

Bitty nippy out this morning, ain’t it?

Good news: Our penguins haven’t been this happy since the 2019 Polar Vortex.

Better news: Our radiator warmed surly confines open by 1:20pm for your remote work/frozen day off work beverage needs. #NiseiCares

BREAKING: The 3400 block of Sheffield between Newport & Cornelia is closed to traffic this morning.

@wbbmnewsradio.bsky.social

Whatever broke and necessitated the closure? We don’t know AND IT WASN’T OUR FAULT!

This time, at least.

#NiseiCares

As we while away the days, hours, and minutes until baseball returns…who is YOUR favorite obscure Cubs player?

Bonus points for including why.

I'm not sure the author of this piece ever worked a service job before, because getting the authority to say "get the fuck out right now" to a visitor that's annoying the shit out of people is one of the rare joys of a service job

Open by noon.

And yes the World Famous* Nisei Lounge Loss Purging Plunging Penguins will again be available all day for photo ops with you.

Please, no autographs.

$3 draft beer deals all day too. #NiseiCares

BIG CUBS CONVENTION CELEBRITY APPEARANCE NEWS @ NISEI LOUNGE!

All weekend the famous Nisei Lounge Loss Purging Plunging Penguins will be appearing on our beer garden! Come get a photo with these lovable BIRDS!

No fee for photo op but please…no autographs. #NiseiCares

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PROGRAMMING NOTE:

We are Nisei Lounge so NO, we are not taking table reservations for Sunday. Obvs.

We open at 12:30 Sunday. First come, first served for tables and barstools.

But we ARE in this for the money so your party of FOUR OR MORE must all be present to get a table.

OFFICIAL NISEI LOUNGE ANNOUNCEMENT:

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Our Sunday sales lately? Dogshit.

What to do about it? Puzzling…puzzling…GADZOOKS! THAT IS IT!

PUZZLES!

AND ALCOHOL!

PUZZLES AND ALCOHOL!

This Sunday for $25 we’ll give you 2 drinks, 2 shots, AND a 252 souvenir Nisei puzzle to solve and keep!

Other bigger puzzles to do for free too.

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PSA: We aren’t planning on taking reservations or reserving tables for Saturday night’s Bears game but…
1) From 5pm on your group better have AT LEAST 3 people here in person if you want to hold a table.
2) No drink packages or cover charge.
3) Yes, you can bring food in.

A meme from the television show Ghosts.

Always good to keep in mind when you go down those baseball rabbit holes.

We will be closed from 7-10pm tonight for a private party.

No, we don’t usually ever allow private party full bar buyouts on weekends but we had zero faith you slackers would actually go out tonight so we took the money. #NiseiCares

Nisei Lounge First Friday of 2026 Forecast: ACAB!

Ass
Cold,
Also
Beautiful

Open at 1:20om for your “Damp January” drinking needs with $3 @oldstylebeer Light & Corona Light beers too.

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Welcome to 2026.

Our 75th year of SUSTAINED DIVE BAR EXCELLENCE at 3439 North Sheffield Avenue in CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

The Nisei Lounge 75th year anniversary begins at 5pm today. You have been warned.

Move along sir, nothing to see here.

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Finish 2025 with BONUS DAY DRINKING!

Open at noon on New Years Eve with @MajaLeeg. Partly because we have one delivery tomorrow to get in but mostly so you can enjoy watching the bartender suffer thru the Texas vs Michigan broadcast! #NiseiCares

MFW I read that influencers don't bring anyone any value

Yes we’ll be open for New Years Eve.

Don’t go asking if there’s a cover or drink package or anything fancy planned. We might sprain our eyeballs rolling them at silly Nisei NYE questions like that.

I can’t wait to go back to Chicago

Carpe fucking diem is what we always say. 🍻