Milano’s Restaurant & Bar

I love this place! The owner is so nice. They have great bar food, delicious Polish dishes and cheap drinks. The jukebox is always going on the weekends with fun dance music and during the week they usual have something good on the TV. Definitely a neighborhood gem!

Me and my friend are from out of town. We really needed food, and found this place randomly. All the bartenders are beyond sweet and make amazing drinks! The food was a 5 out of 5! And felt right at home! We will surely return our next trip! Amazing!!!

This is the worst place ever. I ask the lady for a chicken panini and when she brought it to my table the chicken was raw, instead of her not charging me that sandwich all she said was… I’m sorry. Never going back don’t recommend people to go there.

Good food, waitress sucked. Never checked on me. Didn’t have any recommendations on the menu. A total zero.

Polish food homemade the way my grandmother used to make. Red beat soup with meat dumplings and every weekend the chef has something special and different to feast on. Ice cold Polish beer and a VERY classy atmosphere compliment the excellent food and polite and friendly staff. Very authentic and very delicious.

Authentic Polish food. Delicious. From the gulasz soup to the breaded pork and gulasz special all the way to the homemade tiramisu. So good! A nice homey atmosphere and friendly people.

The food here is absolutely wonderful. Authentic with an fusion twist. Especially since they hired a new chef from one of the most renowned polish restaurant’s in the city. Service is excellent and the menu has many options offering a great sampling of several different tasty dishes. Great for a filling family dinner. The kitchen is open until well after midnight and there’s a special dish everyday so be sure to ask for it. The bar becomes a hotspot after hours.

This is my favorite spot in the neighborhood. Can’t go wrong with an order of Pierogis (half meat, half potato & cheese) and a Carlsberg.

Amazing Polish food. The perogies were delicious and the bartender was really nice. Loved this place.

I’ve passed this place so many times. Lived in the area almost my entire life, my husband and I had finally had a chance to try this place out. It is a polish bar/​restaurant?, and for a Saturday night they had a decent size crowd.
The place is clean and nice décor. Kasia at the bar was amazing, such a good disposition! We had a few beers and drinks, and decided to order some appetizers. Typical bar food, frozen and then reheated. No frills there.
The overall atmosphere seemed kinda slow for a Sat. night, I was looking forward to the disco that some of the reviewers mentioned, but no sight of it that night.
We’ll probably come back since our bar options are limited in the area.

Great Food. Especially if you like Polish Food. Best in town.

tl;dr? — Drinking and dancing on a Saturday night!
Friendly staff, friendly atmosphere.
I was there for a friend’s birthday party on a Saturday night. There was a different birthday party going on at the same time. The staff kept the drinks coming, and were very helpful in arranging a table and seating for our group.
I would love to try their menu for lunch or dinner some day.
While I was there, we ordered some appetizers to share. You can’t really mess up fries/​cheese sticks/​chicken. It was all pretty standard.
The drinks were good and stiff.
There was a DJ playing standard modern dancing music and a lot of people were up and having a good time — including myself. It was a very friendly, light hearted atmosphere, easy to have fun in!

When someone says, «Polish Disco on Saturday nights,» they ain’t kidding!
The GF and I ended up here based on a Unilocal Location Search on my iPhone. The review was good enough to make the decision to give it a go, particularly since it was right behind the CVS we were already at.
Very friendly staff, good cocktails and beer (Carlsberg on tap, anyone?). We sat outside as it was a nice, balmy evening.
The food: Well now, here’s the deal: once we were able to communicate what we wanted (I do not speak Polish), one of our orders came out not as ordered. GF ordered stuffed chicken breast (think chicken cordon bleu), but it was sans stuffing on arrival. I ordered pork cutlet, after my first choice had been 86’d. Both dishes were tasty, but really it seemed that they were pre-​breaded and thrown into the oven. Both dishes came with a delicious heap of mashed potatoes, and minced pickled carrot and slaw on the side.
Most of the enjoyment came from watching the locals sit around smoking and drinking and chatting away in Polish.
A nice place for drinks, but the meals were nothing special. Prices were quite fair.
And yes, when they say «Polish Disco Saturday Nights,» they ain’t bullshitting… though I personally have never heard Rush played at a disco before.

Place is very clean. People very nice. They make you feel welcome from where you come from. Good place to watch hockey or football.
Parking is always good, so its a good meet up place. Fun to go in there to watch the circus of people. Customers are international collection of people, but no drunks or unsavory characters.

Milan’s or Milano is a little traditional European bar/​café right on School Street (behind the CVS at Milwaukee and Pulaski). Many evenings our Polish neighbors will be here sitting outside or in the modern (almost sheek) interior drinking coffee and eating sweets during the day or having a cold beer at night so we had to check it out. I love being able to get an espresso, a cold beer, or a good meal at the same place!
We went in on an early evening for a cold beer and stayed for dinner. The menu is similar to that you might see in a modern bar in Vienna, Budapest, or Poland. They had three beers on tap (Carlsberg, Okocim, Zywiec) and a full bar.
We ordered the Chicken kebab, Hungarian Goulash, and Polish sausage sandwich. The sandwich was awesome and served with fries. The real treat was the Goulash which was prepared with a sweet paprika and red pepper (sweet) sauce. It was not the typical spicy Hungarian Goulash, but the sauce was so good we wiped the plate clean. The chicken kebab came as two large skewers served with potato wedges and a mix of Central European cold salads. The chicken was lightly seasoned and tasted great.
The staff were friendly and the little blond woman who runs the place was very helpful. She said they have been open just a little while and that they are not cooking everything they have on the menu. I suggest you ask for the «specials» and see what the cook has going on. We left very satisfied. Now it is a «bar» as well so there might be music or baseball on the TV.
This café reminded me of the bars or cafes I went to in Europe more than others here in Chicago.
I went back in on a Saturday night and it doubles as a disco for young Polish immigrants. The place was jam packed with Polish men and women dancing and drinking. It was a bit busy for me, but everyone was nice. This «weekend» face was wild. I love all the different «Chicagos» there are to see and experience.