Soho House's Ground-Floor Cafe-Bar
The Allis on Green Street is the ground-floor cafe-bar at Soho House Chicago — open to non-members, with the polished British-cafe format the brand's UK rooms are built around. The format handles breakfast, café service through the day, lunch, and a serious evening dinner.
The cooking is British-leaning all-day with a careful contemporary edge: morning pastries, considered lunch plates, evening small-plates that handle the cocktail bar's pacing.
What to Order
British-style brunch in the morning — eggs, smoked salmon, the considered pastry programme. Lunch plates and salads in the afternoon; evening small plates from the bar menu. The cocktail programme is one of the more serious in the West Loop.
The Setting
The room is architecturally complete in the way Soho House public spaces are. Reclaimed wood, considered lighting, the kind of considered public room the brand is built around.
Best Occasion: First Date
The Allis is a quiet West Loop first-date win. The setting provides immediate conversation; the format handles a flexible-length evening; the price point sits in the bracket where a return visit is genuinely possible.