
Chicago, Illinois
No. 30 on North America's 50 Best Bars 2026 and No. 39 on North America's 50 Best Bars 2025.
Fourteen seats at a marble-topped bar, four spacious half-circle booths in rust-colored velvet and paisley fabric, and a martini program that cycles through vintage iterations, Alaska, Gibson, Martinez, Vesper, with the same scholarly attention that sommelier culture applies to wine lists. Bisous arrived fully formed. The debut ranking merely confirmed what the room already knew.
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