Irving Park Liquors

I like shooting the breeze with the guy who runs this place and the motley collection of characters he hires to staff it. Selection is surprisingly big for a store of this size but completely random. Prices are all over the map too — some items are absurdly overpriced while others are suspiciously underpriced. If you’re looking for a specific item and you’re not sure if they have it here, maybe hit up a more well-​rounded shop like Binny’s instead. But if you just want to browse or you’re in an «I’ll know it when I see it» kind of mood, this place fits the bill nicely.

I used to like this place, but after I was charged 35 dollars for a six pack, a 2 liter of ginger ale, and a bag of ice I’m done. Rip off.

This place is a unique addition to the area. They have a pretty good selection of microbrews and imports.
The employees are very helpful and courteous. They recommended some beers for me to try and werent pushy.
The prices are a little above your average discount liquor store (binny’s, jewel, etc)

This place is awesome! Aside from having a million billion different microbrews and local favorites, there is a huge variety of liquor from handles to Half pint bottles. They have wine tastings and are extremely personable with customers. I will be making this my new liquor store when I visit my girlfriend in Irving

Decent selection of microbrews, wine, and liquor. This incarnation is such a vast improvement on the dingy and poorly lit polish bodega that used to be here, with it”s 24 packs of beer cut in half and taped back together to be sold as 12 packs. This new store is clean and brightly lit, and the staff has always been pleasant and easy to deal with. Also, although they don’t carry my brand of smokes, they somehow manage to sell Marlboro Lights for only $ 10 flat, which I don’t know how they manage to do, the bottom of the pack even has the Illinois tax stamp, but I’m ok with this mystery. as it saves almost $ 3 a pack. If being charged a fee to use your credit card offends you, learn to be a real man and carry some cash on you.

«Biggest Macrocraft Selection In Chicago» reads the giant yellow sign out front, dotted with very random beer logos like Coors, Barley Island, and Laughing Dog. That about sums it up, a large and very random selection with zero ounces of interest put into it.
The night clerk here is a rude and apathetic guy that saunters from the back room or off the street once you start browsing. Once he gave us a hard time over a gallon of milk priced $ 2 higher than others in the cooler. 2015: Don’t see this guy around anymore thankfully. The owner is nice enough, though clearly the profiteering type. The store is known to jack up prices on BCS, $ 35 a 4-​pk, or anything remotely limited. $ 20 Three Floyds bombers anyone? No thanks. 2015: $ 26 Zombie Dust and $ 26 bottles of Sofie, collecting dust. There are some good beers here, you just have to dig, and check dates.
Hidden charges if you use a credit/​debit card. With Beer Temple down the road on Elston, I don’t bother ever coming here anymore.
To this misguided person: «If being charged a fee to use your credit card offends you, learn to be a real man and carry some cash on you.» Defending deceptive business practices only makes you look like a fool, and the last part removes all doubt. Let me get this straight… Some guy reviewing pedicures on Unilocal is offering unsolicited advice on «how to be a real man»? That’s enough internet for me today I guess.

It’s too bad the star rating number on this great addition to the neighborhood is based on such a small subset because two of the three current reviews are not representative of my experiences here. I love this place, especially compared to my other local options. I mean Binny’s is Binny’s but Binny’s ain’t four blocks away.
They have a DEEP micro/​macro brew selection… Three Floyd’s, Shiner, Bell’s, Half-​Acre, Great Lakes,… I can’t even list everything I’ve seen there. Trust me if you want it, I’m betting they’ve got it. They also have a nice selection of wine. I’m not really a wine guy so I don’t know much but the $ 12 bottle we brought to a friend’s house didn’t kill anyone. I’m glad I don’t have to go south down Elston or across the street (the two other local liquor stores) where I’ve had real issues.
Now the negative reviews mention a dollar being added to the bill for using a debit card and shitty customer service. I pay cash so I can’t speak to that but I’ve usually dealt with a big, older guy who I assume is the owner and he’s always been fine. I mean he doesn’t ask me about my day but he’s pleasant enough. And now that I think about it all I want is a pleasant thank you from my liquor store clerk. What the hell is that reviewer expecting? «Looks like someone’s got a case of the Mondays?» when you’ve got a frown?
You ask me that and I’m with Lawrence on this one, «I believe you’d get your ass kicked sayin’ something like that, man.»
Anyway good place, great selection and I’ve never gotten a ticket parking on Elston without paying the parking box… Suck it private parking meter vendor!!!

This place is OK if you aren’t using debit/​credit. They added an extra dollar when I used my credit card.

My new favorite liquor store! Tyrannena Rocky’s Revenge, New Holland The Poet, New Belgium Ranger IPA, Delirium… to name but a few of my favs. This place has EVERY beer imaginable. LOVE IT!