Burton Place

Big cities shouldn’t just be hives of innovation & progressiveness. This is a great bar in any city, town, or village in the US. If you want to be catered to, you shouldn’t come here. If you want to be able to live whilst consuming good food and beverages amongst good people come. Well done.

Best gross dive bar of the year award goes to: Burton place! Have you ever walked into a place and realized, you’ve been there before, but you don’t remember how you got there, and you’re pretty sure something shameful happened? Chances are, it was here! Yay!
I used to hate to admit it, I would make excuses like, oh it’s the only place open this late, and oh they have pub trivia, and well I know the bar tenders because they’ve all been here for over a decade, but no, it’s not the excuses, I love this place.
It’s just the right amount of grimy, cheap beer, and delicious previously frozen and then microwaved jalapeño poppers that makes me love this place more and more. It is what it is, a fun drunken mistake that will hurt in the morning.
Don’t deny it, you’ve been here, and you love it too!

Zero stars but I can’t give them zero stars BC I can’t give them zero on Unilocal.Number 1: they will take away your drink and try to drag you out of the bar after they just sold you the drinks that you paid for… But that’s not the worse part… Number 2: The worse part is that their employees are racist, saying things about certain races that weren’t appropriate. Please pass this on to others that you know that think this place would be a good place to end the night… BC it isn’t. I ended the night crying because of the racist comments.

This place needs to check on their current employees… employees here are very selective on how they treat their customers. I sad to believe there will always be some type of racism everywhere you go but its worst to actually hear a racist comment be blatantly conducted right in front of you and this is not ok!
Management, please take the appropriate steps in training your employees to be respectful to all customers that walk through your doors.

This is totally bogus — I paid for songs to be played and the bartender totally overrided the songs on the app. My friends and I were waiting for the songs and woulda brought it on the dance floor. Bogus.

Dive bar? Yes.
Janky? Just a tad.
During the week, this place typically caters to regulars that come to drink and socialize. Bartenders here have always been super friendly and easy going. TVs all over to catch any game going on. They do have daily food specials and overall their food is relatively affordable and not bad. I’m talking less than $ 10. I do love their turkey burger with a side of tater tots!
During the weekends, they have an additional two levels above the main level that open up for dancing. Of course bars on each level to keep that buzz going. Burton place is can be a good time, but you’d probably be stumbling down Wells, hear the music bumping or see a large group of peeps walking in and end up following to see what it’s all about.
‘Til next time, cheers!

You will have fun, so long as you take Burton Place for what it is. Similar to a lot of the places on Division (but with bomb food), Burton Place can be a hit or miss shit show on the weekends.
The crowd tends to be, well.drunk. Actually, plastered is a better word. And if you’re showing up here after midnight, you better be too. Skip the crowded downstairs bar filled with bros and head upstairs for random music, and dancing your life away minus judging (Really, because people are too drunk to give a crap what your dancing looks like)
But alas, on the weekdays, Burton Place is mellow, and really what you think of when you think «watering hole.» The food is cheap and decent (under $ 10 for the most part) and a better value than anything else you can get on Wells.

Had a great experience last night. Maybe we just got lucky but ended up meeting some really cool people here. The late night eats were helpful and bartender Toni is a real character and tons of fun!

Great place. Can be somewhat quiet early in the night, but if you are looking for a great place to go after 2 am, this is the bar to go to. The Jalepeno Poppers are also a great late-​night snack. This place is 3 floors of classic Americana for 20 – 30 somethings.

The bartender is TERRIBLE she is crabby and is very short with you. They say they have 3 floors been there multiple times and the upstairs is always closed. When I asked the bartender why, she looked and me and walked away. Would never go back or recommend to anyone

Stopped for a drink around 11pm on saturday. It was a tiny bit busy but we were still able to grab seats by the oval bar. Drinks were strong (almost too strong) The bartender and staff were friendly. The place is such a dive especially in comparing a lot of the bigger bars like benchmark. The area between the wall and bar is narrow so be preparred for drunk idiots to hit you or to rub up on someone (maybe that’s what youd like ;)) Not a bad spot to grab a drink and the food looked (and smelled) pretty good too.

Walk in, can’t immediately get upstairs but once you do they play decent music. HOWEVER if the doorman «Donni» gives you his card and you decline he will treat you like SHIT. He can’t take take rejection, so be prepared to be kicked out for no good reason, just pure bitterness of rejection. Also they close the kitchen at 2:50 not 3am. Last resort bar if you’re in chicago.

Another great dive bar! Great for trashy day drinking, or sordid late night imbibing. Friendly staff, good prices and just a whole lotta booze.

Shitty. Bar tenders don’t recall your drinks in spite of the limited patrons. Also, They claim to serve food until 3 but they don’t.

Great night out, great music, bartenders, food and late night environment. Will defiantly be coming back again!

Went in this past Friday during the happy hour time. The bartender was great and the service was quick! It has a very chill atmosphere and was not too crowded. I will be back again.

Had such a great time there with the bartenders shelly and Margo. Super friendly, but pretty sure I got super sick from the tatertotschoes

Nice little dive on Wells. Seems to cater to the older locals in the area but is always a pretty friendly place to hang out when you’re playing it low key for the night.

Definitely a cool dive bar with very cool bartenders.
I came on a Thursday night and it was a nice crowd. Good music was playing as it was a mix of 90’s and 2000s tunes.
Nice to see there is a civilized bar in this area… good stuff

Discovering this place was one of the worst accidents my friends and I have ever made.
This bar is staffed with bouncers who kept saying they were off-​duty cops. They were also incredibly rude with the women in our group for no reason several times, particularly the «middle of the stairs» gatekeeper douchebag of a bro.
Bought 11 shots and was told by the bartender that a $ 12 tip on a single $ 75 transaction was «not cool».
My girlfriend and two others lost personal belongings in this place and the staff actually LAUGHED when they tried to ask if they could even go upstairs to check. Our best guess was that the staff actually just keeps what they find. Which is an assumption you only make when you’re dealing with a bunch of classless assholes that forget they’re in the service industry.
DO NOT BRING ANYONE TO THIS PLACE. The people don’t want to be there, it’s obvious. Nothing can more quickly ruin a fun night out than a bunch of ungrateful buffoons running the place.

This is one of my favorite kinds of bar, dark, a little dirty and open practically till the sun comes up! The first time I went here was on a Thursday night. It was pretty chill until 2am when the bar got packed! That’s when my friend informed me that this was «a late night bar.» The crowd was super fun and the jukebox was hot. Fast forward to Saturday night, where I was suggesting the spot to a friend. That’s when I discovered the other two floors! Still gotta stick with the ground floor and boy was I surprised when they turned on the lights at 5am! Can’t wait to head back for another late night session soon!

Great late night bar to go to when Bechmark has a long line and pourhouse is closed!

Burton Place is a dive bar. The downstairs bar seems like it takes up half the room so it is very crowded The upstairs feels like a Frat party. A good place to go if you either want to drink a lot or your 21.

Bare bones and basic, but at least they can pour a Guinness. It’s a pretty simple space — bar in the middle of the room, ~20 seats around it, plus a Touch Tunes jukebox that was the focal point of our evening. Lots of guys hanging around, several red bulls & vodkas being poured, and maybe a shot or two of jäger… just to give you an idea of the crowd, bros. No major complaints. A solid spot to stop for a drink if you’re in the area, hopping from place to place.

Burton’s Place, the Manolo Blahnik of Chicago bars!
If Beethoven would have composed his 10^th Symphony, it would have looked and sounded exactly like Burton’s Place except in dark lit corner bar form. I mean this place has it ALL, absolutely EVERYTHING can be found here folks. I haven’t visited this fine drinking and dining establishment in quite some time and coming back last night made me realize what I have been missing. Immediately upon entering you can’t help but feel warm and cozy like a fireplace in a cabin during winter solstice. Everyone here has a cracked iPhone screen, so this must be some sort of express entry into the place.
I immediately headed up to the third floor. Let me tell you, this place looked just like the ballroom in the Disney movie Beauty and the Beast. From slightly stained velvet curtains, to linoleum floors to Formica countertops, I was in complete awe! I was just waiting for Lumière and Cogsworth to show up. LOL… You can’t help but notice the aroma emanating from here. It’s if heaven’s angels were playfully fighting and spilling Drakkar, Cool Water and Abercrombie Woods all over the place. Maybe it was a special Friday night but the patrons were all dressed to the 9’s. The crème de la crème of Chicago were here. I saw cowboy hats, pleather jackets, mom jeans, fupa accentuating pants, «Hoof-​Arted» t-​shirts. See and be seen! Tonight must have been a zombie themed night because everyone was stumbling into permanent walls, puking on the floor, and falling down the stairs while trying to go to «third base»… Millennial’s and their themes I tell ya!
I didn’t mind the song «Face down ass up» too much but my only recommendation would be to have a few more Barry Manilow songs besides Copacabana and Mandy in the jukebox… obviously!
You must also try the food. I showed up late so they were out of the prime rib. Instead, I tried the pommes frites, tots frites and deep fried battered chicken cutlets. The perfect compliment to a 2011 Bigfoot merlot or a pint of their finest Miller High Life. Food and Wine magazine, eat your heart out! My only major gripe about this place is that they didn’t have any tempeh. I definitely recommend this establishment to locals and out of town folks!

The older I get, the more I love (and prefer) dive bars. I’m not sure if you can call Burton’s a dive bar but you can definitely call it intimate with no frills.
Let me paint you a picture:
–jukebox
–80% male clientele
–fairly mellow on a weeknight yet, not dull
–circular bar that pretty much takes up the entire space
–located in Old Town
–A ginger and Jameson that is mixed just right
–last, and most importantly, the jukebox has Missy Elliott’s «Work It» (all is right in the world)
Feel like you’re there?

Smells like bum piss

If Burton’s were only open on weeknights, I could give it 4 stars. Easily. It’s a chill dive with lots of beer on tap, great bartenders and friendly patrons. But problems begin when people see the long line to get into nearby Benchmark and decide to detour to Burton’s. This crowd of bros and clique-​ish chicks all dressed up look (and act) quite out of place. Things take a turn for the worst when Benchmark closes and, to borrow Castro’s phrase, flushes its toilets onto Burton’s. The whole place gets even more crowded with people who should’ve gone home. For example, some asshat kicked my stool out from under me because he think I stole it from him.
The 2^nd floor opens during street fests, but service is atrocious. I don’t even want to type about it. Just be prepared to be ignored.

Say what you want about this place, but I have never not had a great time here. The multiple floors allow for ample space to explore while also ignoring people you may not want to run into. The staff is very friendly, especially Shelly (?) who works on the first floor. She really took care of us. While the bottom looks like a dive, the upper two floors are not bad. If you are looking for a late night bar (or anytime bar where you want several strong drinks), I’d recommend it. Many thanks to them keeping my credit card for me at the front register for a week for me to pick it up.

My dad always told me that nothing good happens after 2am.
It depends how you feel about meeting all sorts of random people from bums to hot babes, public make outs amongst strangers, shots of stuff you’re not sure what it was, and tone def karaōke with buddies, but if you consider these features as negatives then you’d probably side with my pops.
Sorry dad… I’m gonna have to disagree and say that Burton Place has some bright sides. Plus it’s pretty cheap.

Nothing screams «Danger Will Robinson» to me like a 3-​story bar with steep stairs and a $ 20 minimum credit card tab.
Yep, sounds like a fun party/​safety hazard/​massive hangover-​in-​the-​making to me.