Lolo y Lola seats 22 people, and nearly half of them sit at the bar. Its next-door neighbor, Beatnik Lincoln Park, seats 150 across three dining rooms and two bars. Bonhomme Group opened the two together on Friday, September 18, at 2576 N. Lincoln Ave.
That pairing repeats across Lincoln Park this year. Muhājir has Bobo tucked behind it. Beaumont's has The Bull Moose upstairs. Piccadilly Market has a courtyard and an upstairs lounge. Deciding where to eat in Lincoln Park now means deciding which door to open, and the small door is usually where the hard-to-get seats are.
Four addresses, eight rooms
The pattern is easiest to see side by side.
| Address | The big room | The small room |
|---|---|---|
| 2576 N. Lincoln Ave. | Beatnik Lincoln Park, 150 seats, weekend brunch | Lolo y Lola, 22 seats, Spanish pintxos, walk-ins only |
| 2630 N. Clark St. | Muhājir, 44 seats, wood-fire cooking, Wednesday to Sunday | Bobo, Filipino street-market cocktails, open until midnight |
| 2020 N. Halsted St. | Beaumont's, 200-seat tavern | The Bull Moose, 76-seat steakhouse upstairs |
| 444 W. Fullerton Pkwy. | Piccadilly Market, all-day cafe, market and wine shop | Upstairs bar and lounge, plus the 80-person courtyard called Piccadilly Square |
Hours are from each opening announcement, so confirm them before you head out.
Only one of these is a restaurant with a bar attached, and that one is Muhājir. The others are two distinct rooms with different rules for getting in.
The small room is where the scarce seats are
Lolo y Lola holds about one seat for every seven at Beatnik. The Infatuation lists it as walk-in only, which means the 22 seats are decided by who shows up, not who booked. Its menu leans on conservas, jamón ibérico, sherry and vermouth, with Estrella Galicia on tap and patatas bravas with garlic shrimp. The Newcity announcement describes the room as meant to feel like a cramped little bar in Spain, and 22 seats will do that.
The Bull Moose is the same idea with a steakhouse in it. Upstairs seats 76 against the tavern's 200, and the steaks come with a soup or salad per person. The Infatuation says the $110, 18-ounce ribeye can easily feed two. If two people split one steak and each take a soup, the check looks very different from the same night spent ordering across Beaumont's larger menu of handmade pastas and charcoal-fired steak frites.
Bobo answers a different question, which is what happens at 10 p.m. Muhājir serves from 5 to 10 Wednesday through Sunday. Bobo runs until midnight with late-night bites, so the evening does not have to end where the kitchen does.
Beaumont's has a scheduling rule of its own. The Infatuation's August 27 review reports that reservations drop 14 days ahead, that the open slots tend to land at times like 4:30 p.m. or 9 p.m., and that the large square bar in the center takes walk-ins. Under that 14-day window, every date of the coming Wine Fest weekend should already be bookable.
The rooms were already on the map
A neighborhood restaurant gets an unusual amount of loyalty when it takes over a room people already know, and Lincoln Park's 2026 class did that almost every time.
Piccadilly Market took over the longtime home of Emilio's Tapas at Clark Street and Fullerton Parkway. The new occupant opened on Thursday, September 10, in 5,200 square feet. Chef Mark Mendez, who previously ran the West Loop wine bar Vera, is leading the food. The menu includes homemade English muffin breakfast sandwiches, house-made focaccia and Roman-style pizza, plus rotating cheese and charcuterie. The bar pours three wines and five beers or ciders on draft, and a coffee-cocktail list is built with Metric Coffee. Owner Aaron Zacharias also runs The Northman Beer & Cider Garden on the Riverwalk and The Bar on Buena. The original Piccadilly Market opened in Lincoln Square in February 2025.
Muhājir moved into a space that had been a sushi bar. Chef Zubair Mohajir and chef de cuisine Jacob Dela Cruz kept the room's footprint small and put a wood-burning grill in view of the dining room. They cook everything over fire, including a duck course based on a recipe Block Club describes as 900 years old, finished with cumin, coriander, dates, pine nuts, date vinegar and fish sauce. It opened July 1, with Bobo following on July 8.
The most striking re-tenanting is on Halsted just north of Armitage. Beaumont's ran as a 4 a.m. bar for more than 40 years before it closed in 2023. The Abu-Taleb brothers bought the building in 2024, and Paul Abu-Taleb has described the renovation as among the most intensive restaurant buildouts in recent Chicago memory. The team kept the Beaumont's name and the landmarked exterior. When demolition opened up the second floor, which had held two apartments, they saw a space for a small steakhouse with big tufted booths, fireplaces and dim lighting. The Bull Moose exists because the building had a second floor to give. It opened July 1, about five weeks after the tavern below it.
Wine Fest weekend, in order
The calendar gives all of this a deadline. The Lincoln Park Wine Fest turns 10 this year, and it runs Friday, October 9, through Sunday, October 11, at Jonquil Park, 1001 W. Wrightwood Ave. Sessions are ticketed, general admission starts at $30 and is capped at 600 people per session, and the 12 standard tastings come with a commemorative glass. VIP starts at $67.50. Beatnik's corner meets Sheffield and Wrightwood, and Jonquil Park's address is on Wrightwood, so the new restaurants sit close to the festival gates.
Transit runs on the 8, 11 and 74 buses, or the Brown Line to Diversey, two blocks north of the park. The Fullerton stop is also within reach, since Jonquil Park sits three blocks north of Fullerton on Sheffield.
Here is one way to put the weekend in sequence, using only what the openings and the festival schedule already say.
- Friday, October 9. Sessions run 5 to 7 p.m. and 8 to 10 p.m. Take the earlier session and walk to Lolo y Lola afterward, since its 22 seats fill by walk-in. Book Beaumont's for a later date that weekend.
- Saturday, October 10. Beatnik serves weekend brunch from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Wine Fest sessions start at 11 a.m. Brunch before the 11 a.m. or 2 p.m. session fits both. Save Piccadilly Square for the hours between sessions.
- Sunday, October 11. The Chicago Marathon takes over city streets the same day, so expect crowds and closures around the last Wine Fest sessions at 11 a.m., 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. Muhājir and Bobo are open Wednesday through Sunday, so both are available that evening.
Skipping the sequence works too. Any one of these four addresses can carry an evening on its own, and the second door is there when the first room is full.
Meghan Provenzano Group can help you sequence the Sheffield corner around Wine Fest weekend. Get in Touch and tell us which door you're opening first.
