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3551 N. Sheffield Ave. Chicago, IL
773-348-0009
| I walked into Hi-tops on a Saturday night and I fully received what I expected: a Wrigleyville bar packed with people who were having a good time. Not only is Hi-tops a great place to go for clubbing, but it is also a great sports bar right across from Wrigley Field. Whatever your reason is for checking out the Wrigleyville bar scene, Hi-tops is a worthy place to stop in and see. |
I paid my five dollar cover (there is a cover charge only on Friday and Saturday nights) and joined the huge crowd inside. Hi-Tops has a pretty good sized dance floor and it was completely packed with people. The late twenties-early thirties aged crowd there was a college fraternity-like crowd; people were dressed really casual, no one really cared what anyone looked like, and everyone there was just there to get blitzed and have a good time. There were a lot of drink specials the whole night, I was able to enjoy most drinks for only a buck for a whole hour, and drinks were easily accessible from the bars, beer tubs, and waitresses scattered around the place. |
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| The music featured at Hi-tops consists mainly of 70’s disco and 80’s music. While I was there, it seemed to be all 80’s music with a brief 70’s smattering of Brady Bunch and Partridge Family music. Now I’m not an anti-80’s guy, especially in the wake of the post-Wedding Singer 80’s revival, but the DJ made me want to get away from the past for a while as he played such selections as Vanilla Ice’s Ice, Ice Baby and twice played Barry Manilow’s Copa Cabana within the same hour. The music selection didn’t matter, everyone was just having a good time drinking and dancing, including some people who were drinking and dancing on top of one of the bars. |
| In addition to being a night spot, Hi-tops is a great place to go to watch a sporting event or to hang out after a Cubs game. There are a few big screens located in the center of the building, and many other smaller TV screens littered throughout everywhere else. The place is decorated in a sports theme and there is some sports memorabilia on the walls, but all of this is barely noticeable when the lights are down during the nightclub hours. You also have the option to order food while watching a game or other TV show (I guess Melrose Place is popular here on Mondays.) I was here on a March night while the NCAA basketball tournament was taking place and they had a huge board keeping track of all the teams and the results of each game; I found myself thinking that this would have been a good place to watch my beloved UIC Flames get their butts kicked. The bottom line on Hi-Tops is that it is a very good Wrigleyville bar that is great to dance the night away at, go to after a Cubs game, or watch any sporting event. If for whatever reason you want to go to another bar after Hi-Tops, there are something like 200 hundred other bars all in walking distance to go check out. The people I was with really enjoyed having a college bar flashback at Hi-tops and I recommend stopping in if you are in the area. |
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