Offering a “modern, gritty” interpretation of a Mexican cantina – complete with a six-shooter-wearing skeleton on its sign – this “sceney” Wicker Park rock bar is adorned with Dia de los Muertos–style artifacts and draws a “youngish” crowd; despite an “impressive tequila selection” and “pretty good” food, some say this Eat Well Drink Better venture is a “watered down” version of the real thing.
Owned by Eat Well Drink Better, the company behind tighty-whitie clubhouses Central, Union Park and English, Angels and Mariachis is decorated in a mélange of stereotypes encompassing the obvious in both Mexican and tattoo cultures: wrestling masks, mariachi musicians, and a sombrero’d skull logo framed by scrollwork and six-guns. The irony is lost on tatted-up white servers pimping cheap,...
Tacos, tequila and Tecate from Eat Well. Drink Better.:
A carefully weathered sign featuring a skull and six-shooters announces the cantina--a very Disney scene when viewed in the greater context of thriving Division. Clapboard siding, rusticated wood...