Bongo Room

Bongo Room Inc is located at 1470 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL. This location is in the Wicker Park neighborhood. This business specializes in Restaurants and has 41 review(s) with a star rating of 3.9.

Know Before You Go: Expect a long wait on weekends with nowhere to sit; get there early or late, or you'll end up toughing it out with the rest of the crowd.

Expect a long wait on weekends with nowhere to sit; get there early or late, or you'll end up toughing it out with the rest of the crowd.

A "crazy good" menu of "decadent" daytime grub including "to-die-for" pancakes draws hordes to these "reliable" American "breakfast and brunch joints"; service is "pleasant" enough, and though you should "prepare for a long wait" (unless you "show up right when the doors open"), "large" portions and small bills help ensure they're "worth going to."

The ridiculous wait for weekend tables proves to be a great social equalizer at this buzzing open-room breakfast/brunch/lunch place. Hoodied bedheads lean on the wall outside next to frosted blonde yups and their cellphone-holstered hubbies. Everyone's here to take the most important meal of the day to ridiculously rich extremes, with specialities like the Oreo cookie flapjacks, cherries...

In Short
This eclectic, colorful storefront is decorated with cool knickknack installations and a hip local crowd. Breakfasts come steaming off the line. Pancake options include brown...

Best friends, Derrick Robles and John Latino, established in the Bongo Room in 1993, with the simple aim of offering people relishing breakfast and brunch meals, to kick start their day. With two more outlets in Chicago, this Wicker Park branch is where the story of Bongo Room began. The menu changes seasonally, so that guests are delighted with something new often and the best ingredients of...