![]() This leaves two narrow, wedge-shaped spaces to the left and right of the door which are used for bike storage. ![]() The door is at the apex, a glass-flanked, recessed affair, while there are windows on both sides, two north-facing ones along Fullerton and three facing southwest along Milwaukee. It feels like an old building, with exposed brick walls, wooden floorboards and a whitewashed ceiling and old wooden beams. Gaslight Coffee Roasters is on the corner of North Milwaukee and West Fullerton Avenues, a wedge-shaped shop which reminded me of the original ReAnimator in Philadelphia. You can read more of my thoughts after the gallery. A small selection of single-origins is produced, which is rotated through espresso/batch-brew, with two single-origins on espresso and one on batch-brew. Roasting takes place three times a week in a separate room to the rear of the store. This is supplemented by a day-long selection of cakes and pastries. Roaster, retailer and coffee shop all-in-one, Gaslight is rare in American speciality coffee circles in that it also has a full kitchen, serving five or six seasonal dishes until three o’clock each afternoon. In terms of other speciality coffee shops, it neatly fills the gap between the cluster to the northwest (Logan Square), featuring the likes of Passion House Coffee Roasters and Intelligentsia, and the cluster to the southeast, starting with Ipsento/ Ipsento 606. Like so much of Chicago’s speciality coffee, it’s on North Milwaukee Avenue between the Blue Line stops of Logan Square and California, the trains thundering close by Gaslight on the elevated section before disappearing underground at Logan Square. One of the more famous names in Chicago’s independent coffee scene, I can’t say exactly when or where I first heard of Gaslight Coffee Roasters, but it’s a name that keeps coming up when people talk about places to visit.
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