West Bucktown
West Bucktown is the Chicago neighborhood that chose coffee shops over nightlife and made it work. Forty-nine restaurants, 14 coffee spots including Ipsento, Osteria Langhe for when you need a reservation, Belly Shack for when you don't.
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About this Neighborhood
West Bucktown operates in the register of a neighborhood that has finished gentrifying but hasn't become self-parody. Forty-nine restaurants represent genuine variety — Osteria Langhe is the kind of Italian place that requires planning; Belly Shack is the counter-service spot with a line out the door on weekends. Fourteen coffee shops anchored by Ipsento, which has been there long enough to have survived at least one round of neighborhood-was-better-then nostalgia. Grocery at 6 is light for the residential density — a gap that's solved largely by proximity to the Bucktown Whole Foods and Western Avenue options. Parks are present; fitness is boutique-heavy. The remote_friendly tag is accurate: this is a neighborhood where weekday mornings at coffee shops include a visible contingent working laptops until 2pm.
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