Nobody's Darling
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1744 W Balmoral Ave, Chicago, IL 60640
Nobody's Darling is a Black- and queer-owned cocktail bar in Andersonville, opened in late May 2021 by Renauda Riddle and Angela Barnes, who met volunteering at the Center on Halsted. Named after the Alice Walker poem "Be Nobody's Darling," it is one of the few nightlife spaces in Chicago centered on queer women and the city's second Black-owned LGBTQ bar alongside Jeffery Pub. It was a 2022 James Beard Award finalist for Outstanding Bar Program and is featured on The World's 50 Best Discovery list. Beyond its cocktails inspired by iconic women of color, the bar runs a serious zero-proof program: a dedicated "Lower and No Alcohol" menu section with roughly ten seasonal non-alcoholic drinks built on spirits like DHŌS spiritless gin and aperitivo. Co-owner Renauda Riddle has said the team plays with its non-alcoholic beverages as much as its alcoholic ones.
Non-alcoholic menu: what to order
- Pay It No Mind
- D.D. Darling
- Darling Nojito
- Darling Spritz
Menus change — see the current full menu on Nobody's Darling's website.
“We play with our non-alcoholic beverages probably as much as we play with our alcoholic beverages.”— Renauda Riddle, co-ownerWBEZ Chicago, 2023 →
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