The Game Room

"On the second floor of the Chicago Athletic Association Hotel — the same building known for Cindy’s Rooftop on the third floor — the Game Room offers arcade basketball, shuffleboard tables, and other games. The hotel has a vintage gymnasium and pays tribute to games of yesteryear. The Game Room offers quality food and drink. Order at the bar and food runners will take care of you while you nosh on a Maxwell Street Polish sausage, burger, or chicken wings. The bar will remain open, even as Boka Restaurant Group assumes control of the space this winter." - Eater Staff

"Land & Sea Dept. is vacating the building’s second floor, home of Cherry Circle Room, a vintage Chicago restaurant without windows surrounded by dark wood; Milk Room, a tiny eight-seat bar that pours fancy drinks and vintage spirits; and Game Room, the bar area outside Cherry Circle Room that serves light bites and beer surrounded by pool tables and other games. There’s also the lobby bar, the Drawing Room." - Ashok Selvam

"The Chicago Athletic Association Hotel’s version of a Dave & Busters has skeeball and shuffleboard instead of a Jurassic Park shoot ‘em up, and while a child or two might be visible, the scene skews toward people who were indeed alive when the first movie came out. The bar food, like their sweet Maxwell Street Polish honoring the classic Chicago sausage, is better than average but it’s the drink specials that make this a fun place to be an adult: co-workers marking another conference survived can split the Victory Lap, a large tequila cocktail for four-to-six served in a trophy. The Game Room is like a reclusive baron’s low-lit kick-back spot, an ideal scene for those who want sports and a good bar, without a rowdy crowd. " - sam faye, adrian kane, john ringor, veda kilaru, nick allen

"As a kid, the most exciting hotel you could stay in was one with a game room, even if that just meant a carpeted area in the basement with Ms. Pac-Man and a broken claw machine. The Chicago Athletic Association is a hotel in a giant old building across the street from Millennium Park, and its Game Room is much nicer than the mildewy ones of our childhoods. There’s a huge bocce court with stadium seating, two pool tables, a shuffleboard table, and foosball, not to mention excellent drinking food like cheese curds or fried chicken sandwiches." - josh barnett, john ringor

"The Game Room by the drawing room is a place for professionals to enjoy shuffleboard and foosball tables after work." - Mitchell Friedman