Cafe D'Mongo's on the left / Downtown Synagogue on the right
Fireplace at Cafe D'Mongo's (photo by Margaret O'Leary)
This place is truly bizarre. Located on the northernmost block of Griswold, next to a synagogue and across the street from a strip club, it looks like some cramped combination of diner, jazz club, and Victorian parlor.
Go here on Friday night, because it's closed every other day of the week. This is the kind of place that is able to quietly thrive in a city that has a fraction of the respect but twice the personality of its contemporaries.
It would be very hard to maintain that place more than once a week because the space is so small and so old. I like that though because it makes it feel like you're in a museum.. bar.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the fact that it's only open on Fridays actually makes it 20x cooler/weirder.
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