Miska’s Wine Beer & Liquors

This place is pretty expensive comparable to TJs or a larger liquor store. I was not impressed paying 15 $ for a lower quality wine. Ehhhh… I would recommend going to Trader Joe’s or a larger wine store (not too sure where they are) or joining an online service. You’d get better wine for a fraction of the cost.
They’re always nice to me and have a decent selection if you’re not looking for anything high end and stick to more generic bottles.

Used to go here all the time until they jumped on the price gouging train. Avoided this place for about a year because the owner was pretty rude to me and their prices increased dramatically. Decided to give it one more try and realized nothing had changed. This place could make a lot more business if their prices were competitive with other liquor stores. However, somehow they find the need to have like a 300% mark up. Zombie Dust for $ 18.99? (seriously?!) and one bottle of BCBS coffee (or barleywine) at $ 12 a bottle. That is absolutely crazy and they have lost my business for good. I love craft beer and the hunt for finding the good stuff, but price gouging absolutely ruins it for me. Their excuse for price gouging…“so that its more available for everybody”…psh no, you are marking it up to make a larger profit off of a hype. Just not good business ethics and I hope more people stop coming to the store.
Recommendations: If you are looking for good beer stores with competitive prices, check out West Lakeview Liquors, Beermiscuous, Binny’s (the best prices), Printer’s Row… to name a few.
Goodbye Miska’s!

Shameful, really. I live in the neighborhood, pass Miska walking from work back home, and stop in for a bottle of wine, periodically. Today I was given a thin paper bag for the bottle of Portuguese Red I bought, and left the store to walk north. Get about a block away, and wine slips right through bottom of bag… no tear or rip, mind you, but slips right through – no glue on seam of bag or not enough glue. Bottle hits sidewalk and pops into lots of small pieces. So I head back to store with bag – showing no rip but wide open on both ends – and guy refuses to believe me, tells me I left with the wine so it’s my problem… and that no one else had a bad bag. Nothing. Furthermore, he’s rude to me, telling me to leave. Don’t know if he was the owner or not (I presume so), but with short-​sighted, rude, ignorant customer service like that, I wouldn’t set foot in this store again for all of the vino in Italia. And if he’s the owner, it amazes me how they make it with such unprofessional, poor treatment of customers. It’s not like the wine selection is great (nor the prices)…was just convenient. Me? Will happily walk another few blocks. Lost a local customer for life.

Terrible customer service. Walked in to buy wine for Toro and wanted to use Vivino and the owner said we couldnt!!! I was like what?!? I know its his peragotive but he wouldnt even listen as to what the app Vivino is for. He thought its for price shopping — come on really? Like who price shope for liquor on Friday night?! When we told the app is used to learn more about the wine and see reviews he wouldnt have it.
Oh well buddy, you just lost a sale! (And hopefully more with this review)! Dont go there thats all i gotta say…

stay away. they sell skunked beer, and mislabel items such as nice Champaign as a lower price, then they charge you a higher price and don’t give you a receipt. I went back after exiting the store to tell them, and then they saw the error and basically told me to F off. Bad Business!

If you want something basic and are willing to pay city pricing, this is your place. If you’re looking for a spends or not the norm wine, go elsewhere!
Thirsty much?

Love Miska’s, the guys behind the counter are cool as hell and real laid back. Definitely make you feel welcome in the neighborhood, oh and they sell alcohol duh!

Came here a few years ago, my boyfriend and I were getting a bottle of wine for BYOB. The bottle was like 12, we only had 8 in cash… in lieu of paying with a card, they gave it to us for 8. Pretty sweet.

Just visited this place on 12÷9÷11 about 6:55 pm. This is by far the worst liquor store I have been to. The service is awful and they barely speak english. In addition their prices are exorbitantly high. Yes, it’s a liquor store and there will most likely be a markup on most products but this place has a higher markup than most other liquor stores. The part that really irked me was that I’m in line and the owner gives the guy in front of me a break on a case of beer. Sure that’s fine I get it, he’s probably a regular. But then he adds what he didn’t charge that guy to my total (i’m also buying a case of beer). I asked him «really?» and says «he’s a regular customer». I get that, but you don’t blatantly charge the next guy what you didn’t charge him. You don’t win business like that in America or anywhere. I understand helping out the regular but, as a business owner you should also be nice to other customers to expand your business. I will never go to Miska’s again and I will tell everyone I know not to either. This is my first review on Unilocal!,I created this account to give this review because of how annoyed I am by the experience.

I was glad to read that this is new ownership because I liked going here in the past (when I lived in the neighborhood). Bicycle broke down on the way home (live in Lincoln Square now) from Soldier Field and I stopped for a little help. When asked to call my wife (Murphy’s Law: cell phone went dead) just to tell her where I was, the owner simply responded NO. To which I responded REALLY, and he said «Didn’t you hear me… NO!»
I understand that there are a lot of shady characters out there, but this was just rude. On top of that, he did even try. I would have paid him; I would have made a purchase; anything to avoid walking home.
As a small business owner of over 10 years, it pains me to write bad reviews but this was egregious. I know this really isn’t a review of their service, but this type of attitude apparently pour over. Too bad because this was a really good store.

This is a liquor shop — hard to give it a bad review. The guys behind the counter are cool, they know where the wines are, they know where the hard stuff is — that’s their job. What they also know is that my dog likes biscuits — and they readily feed her one on trips there (if I could take my cat, they’d pro’lly open a can of tuna for him).
All said and done, this is a reliable «go to» place — go to it!

I like this place a lot. The wine selection is really great and pricing is just fine. The service is always super friendly whenever I come in and they always seem to remember you even if you come in once in awhile. The owner always recommends bottles of wine for me and I love each and every one.
They don’t have a huge beer selection, but they have Gumball Head which is enough to make me smile.
This place is right around the corner from my apt and I wouldn’t go anywhere else!

After loving this store forever, I went in one day when the ever so gracious owner was working, the brief meeting I had with him was appalling. After being screamed at, I left but then returned realizing I needed some fuel. When trying purchase a sugar free Red Bull, the giantest one ever, the owner refused to let me use my debit card and threw it back at me. When I tendered cash money he rang me up and threw my change at me all the while mumbling vulgar obscenities under his breath in both English and Persian. The super nice beer guy was mortified (as was I) Kind of like when your drunken lunatic father shows up at your school play and humiliates you. For real. Plus their wine is WAY overpriced and there are much nicer business owners in the hood that DESERVE support.

It’s New Year’s Eve. I need booze. The thought of dealing with the crowds at Binny’s makes my head hurt. Then I remember this place is a hop, skip, and a jump from my apartment.
I should totally come here more often. For such a small space, they actually have a really good selection of wine, champagne, beer, liquor — really, whatever you need, and the mixers to go with it.
The guy working there was totally awesome. I was looking for a particular bottle of champagne to give to one of the hostesses at the party I was headed to, and he helped me find it and even took the price tags off for me. Nice. And when I came back 10 minutes later to get a second bottle he greeted me warmly with a «hi, sweetheart, what else did you need?»
When I don’t feel like trekking all the way to one of the discount liquor stores, I’ll be making this my regular stop.

There aren’t many liquor stores in this area along Clark, but if you need an average $ 10 – 20 bottle of wine or some beer you’ll have to go here if you are south of Fullerton.
They have an ok red wine selection, but with already refrigerated cold, white wine forget about it!

This is a convenient little liquor store to the BYOB restaurants in the area. I stopped in here after getting seated at Sushi Para II. I was happy to find myself some Stella, and they seem to have a pretty decent beer, wine and liquor selection. I was majorly disappointed about not being carded for probably the first time ever… It’s horrible to realize that you certainly look older than 21. Sigh…