Tweet

As a visitor in downtown Chicago from Miami, this place was recommended to me by the staff at The Purple Pig (which I also gave 5 stars for my visit). It’s part of hotel Palomar. Easily accessible from the street. Drink prices are comparable to the rest of downtown Chicago so far. Drinks were also personalized by my bartender, don’t hate me I forgot his name. I’m a martini drinker and they were perfect time and time again. He even added a little twist to the first one with fresh berries that was purely his idea. It was delicious and simply him being creative. Ambiance is a little more upscale but nothing you can’t wear jeans to either. I would definitely recommend for a more intimate visit. Dim lighting, modern décor. Will return!

What a delight to find this treasure!
Love everything about it.
Enormous amounts of delicious, fresh and eye pleasing cuisine. Yum! Not only is the food tasty but also they offer gluten free options.
Many choices to choose for all appetites.
The staff was so friendly and accommodating.
We were not disappointed.
A new favorite!

Fun place, great art and photography on the walls and just a nice vibe when walking in. Staff is friendly and the coffee cup never runs dry. Outdoor seating is also a great option as well. Really the only reason for the mid range rating is that the food is very «meh». With a guest in town we went the first day to Tweet and the next morning to another diner not far away. As soon as we took a bite at the other place everyone looked around the table and said «wow this is much better than Tweet». But again the only lackluster thing about Tweet is the food (which is more or less important). Everything else, including the drinks are 5 stars or higher.

I go here because of the gluten free menu. The top 3 things I come here for are: lox scramble, chilaquiles and pumpkin gluten free pancakes. Well mainly the gluten free pumpkin pancakes and they have Café Intelligencia on drip
I’ve honestly never had a bad meal here and they give you a ton of food. I’m a big guy and I still split the meals. It’s really nice when I want to try 2 different breakfasts. Great am cocktails too! The only reason I don’t give it 5 stars is because they are cash only with atm on site.

I’m sitting here at Tweet with the people I love and simply enjoying life. The food is always amazing, and while you’ll never be dissatisfied with the server, Suzanne is the best waitress of all time. Her witty jokes and kind nature enhance the experience.
In terms of food, I recommend the omelets, chilaquiles, and biscuits and gravy.
I personally enjoy many vegetables on my farm fresh eggs because the vegetables are also fresh… not to mention, the goat cheese completes any omelet. B&G? Get an over easy egg on top! Chilaquiles? Leave em be, they’re good as is!
I highly recommend this place and can promise you’ll never be disappointed. Cheers!

Tweet is the best brunch spot that I have visited in Chicago. We had to wait for about 40 minutes before being seated, but the whole experience was just worth it. As you sit down, you are served a yummy piece of cake and I had to exercise a great deal of self-​control not to finish it. Our server was so attentive and friendly in every way possible. He refilled our coffee cups promptly and offered a lot of information as we were there for the first time. I ended up ordering Chilaquiles based on his suggestion and I really enjoyed it. The food was served with fruit cups, which made my meal feel very wholesome. Their coffee was so good so I got refilled twice before the end of my brunch.
Three things to note.
(a) Cash — Do note that they are cash only so bring cash with you. Or, you can plan to use the ATM in the store.
(b) Gluten Free, Vegetarian and Vegan options — Great place to go with your friends who have dietary restrictions
© Wait — You will probably have to wait to get seated but hang in there — it is worth it.

We came here on a Sunday morning on my off days. I found this place on Unilocal and decided to try it. It was pack in the patio so we grab a table inside. Before we sit down, a little pastry was offered to us as a complimentary starter.
I order the corn beef hash like I always order during brunch. It comes with a fruit cup, toast and hash brown/​salad for $ 10.
It was good and I finished my food.
This place only take cash only but they do have an atm in the dining area.
Good food and good service!

One of the best dining experiences I’ve ever had!
Came here on a Friday with my boyfriend and friend and got a nice table on the front patio. Rex was our server, and right off the bat he was friendly and attentive and hysterical.
Coffee cake is served immediately, and coffee mugs filled with delicious, high quality brew.
We all ordered bloody marys, out of which my favorite was the wasabi!
Rex was quick to volunteer to take a picture of our group when he saw me taking a photo of my friends– very sweet.
While we sat with our drinks outside, it started to rain. Not one minute of light raindrops had fallen before Rex returned and told us he had a table for us inside. The bus staff wuickly scooped up our drinks and helped with our umbrellas and purses and sat us.
Our food came immediately. I ordered the veggie benedict, and can tell you it was probably the best vegetarian benedict I’ve had! The hashbrowns were crispy and plentiful, and the fruit cup was fresh.
At one point Rex had noticed my boyfriend’s coffee had sat for a while, and offered to bring him out a new cup with fresh cream. Impressive.
The bill for three people having a huge, delicious brunch with drinks was very reasonable.
We were in Chicago for four days, and I wanted to go back every single day. My boyfriend even hugged Rex by the end of our meal, we enjoyed ourselves so much!
Five happy stars.

Love Michelle and her staff. The food can be gluten free or high fat. The pancakes and arepas and Cobb salad are amazing. Big Chick burger is amazing.

My wife and I frequent tweet for their amazing breakfast. Their gluten free menu is amazing!
Their wait staff is amazing, so friendly and amazing. They tend to be very busy, so we’ve learned to arrive early. The place is cash only, but they have an ATM on site!
We have also learned there are two parking lots behind the building (accessible from the Alley). We utilize that to avoid paying for parking now.
Pay them a visit, you won’t regret it!

I love getting here early before the rush and grabbing a copy of the Reader. The food and cocktail menus are great, and the energy is neighborly and warm. I take my father here when he’s in town.
The little cakes and while-​you-​wait coffee make it feel especially welcoming.

This place has almost everything a brunch-​goer wants: a massive menu of diverse dishes friendly to all diets, huge portion sizes at low prices, good free flowing coffee, cheap drinks that are heavily alcoholic, outdoor seating, a friendly and fun wait staff, a bar and outdoor waiting area with tons of games to keep you occupied (with a large dispenser of their free coffee). But there are a couple of minor demerits.
The corn arepas is unique and worth ordering, and the omelettes are certainly acceptable. The «Bib Im Bop» is expressly not authentic bibimbap. Although it wasn’t necessarily bad, having had so many delicious, authentic bibimbaps around the city, I’d go with something else next time. The Santa Fe special — poached eggs on black bean patties with hash browns and tasty homemade salsa — is like everything here listed, a large portion of a unique meal that won’t actually blow your little brunch mind.
I’d also warn you again about the highly alcoholic drinks. Some may favor this, but two of our friends found the Rum Fizz drink (whatever it was actually called) undrinkable — the John Daly went down much more easily.
While the food quality is definitely not going to compete with the top-​tier brunch places in Chicago, it’s certainly above average. Even though I rank food taste much higher than all other aspects of a restaurant experience, the massive and diverse menu and bevvy of other great qualities this place has to offer is enough to entice me back.

Greeted with a smile and was very excited to eat here with my party of 4. It was great, we got a booth right away and saw that my daughter was greeted with a bowl full of sliced bananas and a basket full of awesome goodies to keep her busy then we sat down… did we enter a twilight zone…
I asked for the chai latte then was asked what milk? I respond Fat Free… waitress you mean skim? OK yes Skim sounds good. We ordered, my daughters pancakes arrive and the runner had spilled the syrup and ran all over the pancake. So we said we need a new one she likes plain pancakes, the waitress returns to tell me that next time I should tell them no sryup. I replied syrup on the side is fine but the lady spilled the syrup all over the pancakes. It’s like I ordered fries and they put ketchup on them. Then to come back at me and say tell me next time no ketchup. I mean aren’t I the customer.
Then when the bill came she quickly saw that I had a debit card and said we are cash only, atm is around the corner
Then walked away. Atm… around where what corner? I had cash, thank god, but this should have been something clarified at the beginning. The food was ok.
I have to say the the front staff was great, smiling and very welcoming. This waitress really rubbed me my husband and I the wrong way and we will never be returning.
We laughed the entire way home. #punked #twilightzone.

1) The onions for my burger had a green/​black mold growing on it, and when I told one of the servers, he just took it and brought me another one. I assumed we’d at least get a complimentary dessert as an apology or something, but they just replaced the rotten onions.
2) The food was all really underwhelming as a few other reviews also mentioned. I usually go to yolk, or m. henry’s, and they are both much much better in terms of food, and service.
3) As we were being seated, we saw a partially eaten cake on our table so we were confused as to which table the lady wants us to sit on. We thought it was someone else’s table, so we hesitated for a couple seconds. She gave us a snarky comment, saying that it’s up to us if we want to sit on the clean table with the menus, and plates, or the dirty table next to it. Turns out they have a piece of cake with a wedge cut out of it on every new table (hence the partially eaten look). We didn’t know that… She could have explained that rather than tell us «you can also sit on the dirty table next to it if you want».
To be fair, there were a couple friendly servers there, and the atmosphere of the place is nice… But the food wasn’t great, and the service could be better. We won’t be going back there again.

Cash only, but they have an ATM on-​site.
Service was pretty good. We walked in and were seated immediately, with little pieces of… spice cake? Coffee cake? Whatever… it was tasty!
I ordered the chilaquiles (if they are ever on a menu, I order them) with added chorizo. The corizo never made it in to the dish, which is a bit disappointing, because after tasting my sister’s dish with chorizo, I think it really would have added something to it. But it wasn’t bad without it. And good lord there was so MUCH food! I ate maybe half of my meal and left very full.
I have to say, the best part of my meal was the lavender lemonade. It was delicious! I was pleased when they offered me a to go cup for it!
I would certainly go back when I am in Chicago again!

We met some friends there for brunch this past weekend, and while I thought the place/​atmosphere was good, the food was underwhelming. Our party of six got there about 10:00 and really only had a 10 minute wait — which I thought was great. I guess the one benefit of snow coming down in April is that nobody wants to venture outside!
Our server was really good — amusing /​attentive /​nice… all rolled up together. But that’s where my excitement ended. I had the Corn Arepas with chorizo and scrambled eggs. The arepas were corn «savory» pancakes — but were really dry. I would have needs lots of salsa and sour cream to down the whole plate. The chorizo was the outstanding factor of the meal, but there just wasn’t much of it. My husband got the burrito #8 — dirty man w/​lots of different meats. He, too, said the dish was okay — but nothing great. The great part of my meal would be the fruit cup and this sweet and spicy Tabasco sauce that I had never heard of.
Would I be back? No.

BIG THING TO KNOW! CASH ONLY! They do have an ATM onsite
Great place for breakfast! This was just down the street of where I stayed in Chicago and the art-​deco look and Unilocal reviews drew us in. My sister and I were seated quickly with a small plate of some type of spice bread. We ended up having a gentleman sitting right next to us at the 4 seat table we had, so if you like having your own space, pay attention to the tables you get. Our waiter was a little slow to get over to us and people who were seated after us were helped a little faster, but that allowed us to have our order ready right away. While everything looked good, I ordered the Numero Tres breakfast burrito (eggs, chorizo and cheese with sour cream and salsa on the side). The only thing that could have made this better would have been a side of guacamole or sliced avocado on the top. Great place to stop of breakfast!

Amazing little gem in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago! We went last Saturday for Brunch. We were a party of 3 and no wait. The guy who seated us gave us fresh out the oven coffee cake/​sticky buns. OMG so delicious. Our server was such a sweet heart, great service! The menu is huge and is big on vegetarian and vegan options. I was so stunned. Also by the prices (I’m from NYC, it’s hard to find breakfast under 10 bucks).
I ordered the vegetarian bisquits and gravy and a side of hash browns. Probably one of the best bisquits and gravy I have ever tried and definitely the first vegetarian one. Portion was huge, it tasted fresh and delicious! The same with the hash browns. It tasted like an in between potato latkes mixed with fries. So good!
My friends ordered the french toast and loved it as well!
Tip; bottomless coffee and cash only!

I was here for breakfast this morning with two friends of mine after a cute guy in the elevator of my building recommended it to me. (What can I say? I’d like to have some conversational topics if I bump into him again.)
We had:
Apple-​cranberry compote — loved this. A little sour. Very warm.
Denver Omelette — there was SO MUCH egg in this omelette. So much. Huge portion. Pretty good.
Egg Foo Feel Young Omelette — again, SO MUCH egg. Very flavorful, quite good.
Biscuits + Gravy, with two over-​easy eggs ($ 9) — definitely not the best I’ve had. I usually like my gravy with a little more sausage, and my biscuits a little less dense. But still good, very filling, eggs perfectly cooked.
Hash browns ($ 2.25) — really delicious, with a great crunchy exterior, but an absolutely massive portion. In hindsight, would not have gotten these.
Service was really good, if a little slow to start, and we were greeted at our table with a delicious coconut cake. Our glasses and coffee mugs were kept full throughout our meal. We were lucky enough to get a corner table, which kept us from being as packed as some of the other tables we saw, and there was only a ten minute wait when we arrived around 10:15. And, like everyone said but we didn’t pay attention to, BRING CASH.

Tweet is one of those city hidden gems in regards to brunch. It’s small, usually there is a wait, but the food is always good, and you’re rarely sorry you picked it.
I’ve had almost all of the breakfast staples at Tweet and while I like most of them to varying degrees, I feel confident stating that they are all pretty good. They have a variety of breakfast wraps they call burritos, and there is an assortment of (add prefix here) benedicts. There is even a gluten free menu if you’re one of those people that suddenly developed Celiacs disease over the past two years. Are you a veggie-​asaur? Good news! Tweet has an extensive menu for you too.
Tweet is nestled right next to Big Chicks as they are owned by the same lovely folks, so it is LGBT friendly but also very family appropriate. I do wish to warn you that both establishments are cash only, however there is an ATM on premise. Now if you’ll excuse me I’m gonna finish this gluten free veggie burrito wrap!

I’m still thinking about the veggie gravy a month later. No joke — I hesitated when I heard the words «veggie gravy» but this stuff means business. My second experience at Tweet was just as sweet as the first. Big thanks to Unilocaler Jon C for originally introducing us to this Boystown gem.
A few reasons to bookmark Tweet for your next Chicago adventure:
1.) the aforementioned veggie gravy pairs nicely with the crisp hashbrowns
2.) outdoor seating with vibrant tables, chairs and plants
3.) wasabi bloody marys and other varieties that will leave you double fisting
4.) it’s budget friendly, which isn’t always the case with a tasty brunch
5.) tofu makes a splash all over the menu
6.) the fruit cup is a piece of artwork. Step aside, fruit cocktail.