We stopped in Alma in the evening for a few rounds of drinks after dinner. We've been here a few times before and always seem to like it. The drinks and wine options are pretty good. There's a ton of space which we like too. The service was lackluster though. We sat for awhile before our server came by; he eventually came over and took our drink order but wasn't that friendly. We had to flag him down for our other rounds. The ambience of the space itself is pretty good, but the music was just a little too loud for a hotel bar. We'll go back again, but there is room for improvements.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 3
Angela Marzan
We came in for a round of drinks after dinner. Our server was fantastic we closed out for our $125 round of drinks and tipped $25. She then let us know she was going on a quick break and that a server would be around if we needed anything else. As we were waiting outside for our uber, we were approached by a male staff member who accused us of not paying. We than gave him our receipt only to still be disrespected. Please train your staff to have better communication to customers. This incident ruined our night.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Erin Q
Absolutely love this place! Service was amazing. Staff very friendly and attentive. The cocktails were delicious with plenty of options. Good selection of appetizers/entrees. The atmosphere was one of my favorite parts! Comfy chairs, the fireplace, and soft lighting made it feel very cozy. Highly recommend!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Joe
Outdoor dining overlooking Wrigley Field and Gallagher Way. Shareable entrees make for a relaxed dining experience. Bar selections are top notch. Staff is friendly, attentive, and willing to meet dietary changes to menu items.
Lisa
We had an outdoor patio table on an absolutely gorgeous August evening before a concert at Wrigley. Everything about the experience was perfect!! It was packed & extremely noisy inside the restaurant, but the patio was great. Food was fantastic! We had the feta fries, calamari & burger sliders. Drinks are pricey but it's Chicago so totally expected that. Alma is a gem!
Dawn
The atmosphere is very cool, the location is top-notch! It gets so crowded before shows, the servers, bartenders & kitchen seemed very overwhelmed and understaffed. We had a reservation for 8 and were squeezed in with another existing party awkwardly at the same table. Drinks, food & basic service took an Extremely long time.
Denise
My friends that live near Wrigley recommended Alma for pre-concert food/drinks. Great atmosphere, service, bar cocktails were outstanding and yummy appetizers. We are going to Pearl Jam again Saturday night, tried to get another reso but they are booked.
Kim Bauer
Went for buffet breakfast. Staff and wait service were nice and pleasant; breakfast buffet was not. Spent $26 per person for a buffet of poorly prepared standard dishes like lukewarm scrambled eggs, overly done potatoes, barely done sausage links... well you get the picture. Absolutely no creativity of dishes for your $26. Instead, have a cup of coffee or juice or any type of your favorite morning beverage and use that saved $26 for a good brunch!
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 4
Adriana Franco
Loved, loved the terrace and the whole decor in the place - elegant yet understated. If you are a Cub’s fan you have the perfect view.
The cocktails were nice, with good mixology. We enjoyed the falafel sliders and the charcuterie board because we were hungry. It was weird, we order a couple of other things but our server came back saying that were not available, getting their food from another place???
Service was mediocre, our server did not have much knowledge about the menu or their availability, and prices are high.
I would go back for cocktails on the terrace. Perhaps if they serve High-Tea I will check it out, since I heard good things about the experience.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 2
Service: 3
We went for afternoon tea and it was a wonderful experience. The staff was amazing, the food was delicious more than we expected. The tea choices were great. And that we were able to take home the centerpiece was a nice surprise.
This is my favorite place to grab a delicious beverage while letting the crowds disperse after attending a Cubs game. However, last night was just bad. I brought my group of 9, boasting of how wonderful it would be, and I walked out embarrassed for having brought them there. The cocktails were delicious, no doubt about that. While I realize it was a busy time, things could have been handled better by our waitress. She greeted us with a less-than-thrilled attitude upon arrival at our table. The wait to get the cocktails, understandable. But we ordered arancini, and it took our server 25 minutes to tell us it was 86'd, and by then, the kitchen was closed. It took at least 15 minutes for us to get the bill/our credit cards back; I had to flag down another employee to assist with that. When our server came back, she "jokingly" blamed the wait time on us for having 3 separate tabs, which she claims caused the computer to malfunction. I picked up the larger portion of our bill but was not provided an itemized receipt. Since my other two guests DID receive an itemized bill (which I later received after pushing back), I can only assume she wanted to hide from me the fact that 20% gratuity was already added. The cherry on top was that, when we were walking out, we exchanged "thank you's" with the server while she was at another table of about 8 patrons, and she repeated to them the nonsense about us being the cause for her computer breaking (I'm assuming it was her way of trying to save face for offering poor service to that table as well). She shamed us in front of another table of patrons. I have never..
AnastasiaC
We celebrated a graduation with family and Alma was the perfect setting for this event. We sat at an outside table with the ballgame on and ambiance was lovely. Food and drinks were fantastic and the service was excellent. Our server, Jane, even put congratulations graduate signs on our table for us to take pictures with. Would 100% recommend this restaurant.
Shaun Paul Kennedy
Absolutely beautiful cocktail lounge. Located on the second floor with a killer view of Wrigley. Tons of different cocktails and delicious food. Great place to go when you are looking for something different than another sports bar. Its worth going in just to see how pretty it is.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Feta Fries
BeasonD
I attended the Cheesescapes Charcuterie Workshop. I did not eat at Alma however, the staff from the Valet service to the restaurant where the workshop was held, was vey kind. Therefore, I can not give an evaluation of the food.
Services very good! Cleaning person send me tampons when need it. They helped us taking pictures with Easter bunny, asking if additional coffee are needed. Being very nice to my 2 year old kid walking here and there. Just not a lot of choices for a $55 price buffet breakfast.
We stopped in Alma in the evening for a few rounds of drinks after dinner. We've been here a few times before and always seem to like it. The drinks and wine options are pretty good. There's a ton of space which we like too. The service was lackluster though. We sat for awhile before our server came by; he eventually came over and took our drink order but wasn't that friendly. We had to flag him down for our other rounds. The ambience of the space itself is pretty good, but the music was just a little too loud for a hotel bar. We'll go back again, but there is room for improvements.
Atmosphere: 4
Food: 5
Service: 3
We came in for a round of drinks after dinner. Our server was fantastic we closed out for our $125 round of drinks and tipped $25. She then let us know she was going on a quick break and that a server would be around if we needed anything else. As we were waiting outside for our uber, we were approached by a male staff member who accused us of not paying. We than gave him our receipt only to still be disrespected. Please train your staff to have better communication to customers. This incident ruined our night.
Atmosphere: 1
Food: 1
Service: 1
Absolutely love this place! Service was amazing. Staff very friendly and attentive. The cocktails were delicious with plenty of options. Good selection of appetizers/entrees. The atmosphere was one of my favorite parts! Comfy chairs, the fireplace, and soft lighting made it feel very cozy. Highly recommend!
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Outdoor dining overlooking Wrigley Field and Gallagher Way. Shareable entrees make for a relaxed dining experience. Bar selections are top notch. Staff is friendly, attentive, and willing to meet dietary changes to menu items.
We had an outdoor patio table on an absolutely gorgeous August evening before a concert at Wrigley. Everything about the experience was perfect!! It was packed & extremely noisy inside the restaurant, but the patio was great. Food was fantastic! We had the feta fries, calamari & burger sliders. Drinks are pricey but it's Chicago so totally expected that. Alma is a gem!
The atmosphere is very cool, the location is top-notch! It gets so crowded before shows, the servers, bartenders & kitchen seemed very overwhelmed and understaffed. We had a reservation for 8 and were squeezed in with another existing party awkwardly at the same table. Drinks, food & basic service took an Extremely long time.
My friends that live near Wrigley recommended Alma for pre-concert food/drinks. Great atmosphere, service, bar cocktails were outstanding and yummy appetizers. We are going to Pearl Jam again Saturday night, tried to get another reso but they are booked.
Went for buffet breakfast. Staff and wait service were nice and pleasant; breakfast buffet was not. Spent $26 per person for a buffet of poorly prepared standard dishes like lukewarm scrambled eggs, overly done potatoes, barely done sausage links... well you get the picture. Absolutely no creativity of dishes for your $26. Instead, have a cup of coffee or juice or any type of your favorite morning beverage and use that saved $26 for a good brunch!
Atmosphere: 2
Food: 1
Service: 4
Loved, loved the terrace and the whole decor in the place - elegant yet understated.
If you are a Cub’s fan you have the perfect view.
The cocktails were nice, with good mixology.
We enjoyed the falafel sliders and the charcuterie board because we were hungry. It was weird, we order a couple of other things but our server came back saying that were not available, getting their food from another place???
Service was mediocre, our server did not have much knowledge about the menu or their availability, and prices are high.
I would go back for cocktails on the terrace. Perhaps if they serve High-Tea I will check it out, since I heard good things about the experience.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 2
Service: 3
We went for afternoon tea and it was a wonderful experience. The staff was amazing, the food was delicious more than we expected. The tea choices were great. And that we were able to take home the centerpiece was a nice surprise.
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This is my favorite place to grab a delicious beverage while letting the crowds disperse after attending a Cubs game. However, last night was just bad. I brought my group of 9, boasting of how wonderful it would be, and I walked out embarrassed for having brought them there. The cocktails were delicious, no doubt about that. While I realize it was a busy time, things could have been handled better by our waitress. She greeted us with a less-than-thrilled attitude upon arrival at our table. The wait to get the cocktails, understandable. But we ordered arancini, and it took our server 25 minutes to tell us it was 86'd, and by then, the kitchen was closed. It took at least 15 minutes for us to get the bill/our credit cards back; I had to flag down another employee to assist with that. When our server came back, she "jokingly" blamed the wait time on us for having 3 separate tabs, which she claims caused the computer to malfunction. I picked up the larger portion of our bill but was not provided an itemized receipt. Since my other two guests DID receive an itemized bill (which I later received after pushing back), I can only assume she wanted to hide from me the fact that 20% gratuity was already added. The cherry on top was that, when we were walking out, we exchanged "thank you's" with the server while she was at another table of about 8 patrons, and she repeated to them the nonsense about us being the cause for her computer breaking (I'm assuming it was her way of trying to save face for offering poor service to that table as well). She shamed us in front of another table of patrons. I have never..
We celebrated a graduation with family and Alma was the perfect setting for this event. We sat at an outside table with the ballgame on and ambiance was lovely. Food and drinks were fantastic and the service was excellent. Our server, Jane, even put congratulations graduate signs on our table for us to take pictures with. Would 100% recommend this restaurant.
Absolutely beautiful cocktail lounge. Located on the second floor with a killer view of Wrigley. Tons of different cocktails and delicious food. Great place to go when you are looking for something different than another sports bar. Its worth going in just to see how pretty it is.
Atmosphere: 5
Food: 5
Service: 5
Recommended dishes: Feta Fries
I attended the Cheesescapes Charcuterie Workshop. I did not eat at Alma however, the staff from the Valet service to the restaurant where the workshop was held, was vey kind. Therefore, I can not give an evaluation of the food.
Services very good! Cleaning person send me tampons when need it. They helped us taking pictures with Easter bunny, asking if additional coffee are needed. Being very nice to my 2 year old kid walking here and there. Just not a lot of choices for a $55 price buffet breakfast.
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