Tina H.
Yelp
I discovered the Triple L just this past Sunday through a friend.
Liz is an absolutely wonderful Irish lady focusing on bringing something new to area and building up the community away from the standard bars of Boystown & Andersonville. Previously she used to bartend at The Edgewater & Katerinas. More importantly, Lizard's Liquid Lounge has the great potential to become a space that is welcoming to not just lesbians, but to the queer and straight communities alike, as well as just being an awesome bar.
The physical space has all the sensory experiences of an old time Chicago bar, in addition to the renovations and changes by Liz, modernizing its other amenities. My favorite is the bar itself. It's your old school single piece mirror and cabinet bar that stretches the length of the room. The solid wood and size grounds the space against the amount of room to sit, mingle or dance on the other side. There's a pool table in the back corner, a new jukebox (with a great broad selection of music that will appeal to old and new), great clean bathroom and soon to be repainted finish on the inside. Other changes to this bar are the newly installed tap, full bar for liqueur, mixes and beers (I'm personally excited to find Magner's English Cider available), and a charge machine instead of cash only.
While you can't get food there yet, you can order/bring in food from a near by Mexican (awesome guac) or Thai place. Coming this June/July, Liz will have established a delivery service from a local business.
Don't think though that Liz is forgetting that Lost N Found has been the oldest lesbian bar in Chicago proper. She will be creating a space on one of the walls dedicated to the history and clips regarding LNF. She also will honor LNF's open tab tokens (small wooden token pieces are redeemable for any $4 dollar equivalent drink). Liz has already established drink specials for every night of the week, and I'll personally be there this Wednesday for $5 Martinis! I definitely recommend checking out this space.
Check out The Triple L at www.myspace.com/lizardsliquidlounge