"Coffee snobs of Chicago, we give you two Blue Bottles. There’s one at Wolf Point Plaza on the river and another newer location in the Tribune Tower. This is a much-hyped coffee chain from the Bay Area with a focus on pour-over coffee, so seek them out when high-maintenance caffeine is the only thing that’ll help you be your most productive self. The Wolf Point location has other coffee drinks (like the chicory-heavy iced NOLA) and a few pastries, but the real draw is a large patio overlooking the river. Inside, there’s plenty of seating spread out across multiple rooms, wifi, and a quiet jazzy soundtrack to help make drafting your mid-year SMART goals more tolerable." - adrian kane, john ringor, veda kilaru