Queen Mary Tavern

Chicago, Illinois

No. 80 on North America's 50 Best Bars 2026.

Dan Smith and Mony Bunni built a maritime-spirits drinking culture inside a Division Street tavern that reached No. 63 on North America's 50 Best Bars by specializing in gin, rum, Scotch, sherry, and Madeira, the spirits that sailed the world's trade routes. The focused beverage program avoids the everything-to-everyone approach that most neighborhood bars default to, and the constraint produces a collection that reads like a curated library rather than a liquor store. Queen Mary Tavern operates on the conviction that a bar with a point of view serves better than a bar with everything. It sits at No. 80 on North America's 50 Best Bars 2026.