Nine Bar
Chicago, Illinois
N. AMERICA'S50 BEST2026N. AMERICA'S50 BEST2025
North America's 50 Best Bars 2026, No. 76 (51-100) and North America's 50 Best Bars 2025, No. 89 (51-100).
The drinks weave Chinese influences through balanced, technically assured constructions that treat cultural specificity as a strength rather than a gimmick. Nine Bar fills a gap that Chicago's Chinatown needed: a neighborhood bar that represents its community's drinking culture with the same seriousness that downtown bars apply to their own.
