The Duce

The Duce Restaurant Review:

It’s as delightful to simply explore the space as it is to eat, shop and play at this downtown gem. The combo restaurant and lounge, vintage shop and urban hangout was built into a 14,000-square-foot 1928 brick warehouse with plenty of history (witness the original wooden gymnasium bleachers reclaimed from St. Mary's High School nearby) and plenty of sass (consider what you view from those bleachers --- real-life boxing matches). On the food side, owners Steve and Andi Rosenstein take a campy bent, offering up 1960’s style food like brisket sliders, pie, hot cereal with milk, and ice cream served at a 1915 Chicago drug store soda fountain. It’s all great fun, and tasty, too, paired with beer and cocktails presented out of a 1965 Streamline trailer, alongside ping pong, duce bag shuffleboard, and foosball games.