Beat the Heat with Frozen Cocktails

The best antidote to the Dog Days of Summer is a refreshing frozen cocktail, available in unique iterations all over Chicago for the season.

At NoMI Kitchen’s garden terrace, the drink list features a rotating array of frozen cocktails. The template is usually a classic cocktail recipe, which gets frozen to -18 degrees for maximum summer nourishment.

Tiki drinks are handily adapted into frozen cocktails, considering their affinity for fruity flavors, rum, and lavish glassware. One of the best examples is the Tic Tac Taxi at Lost Lake, a drink packed with rum, passion fruit, and coconut, served frozen like an adult slushie. The bar also features daily daiquiris, which are equally refreshing.

Speaking of daiquiris, another Logan Square bar is embracing summer with its own variety of frozen concoctions. New Orleans-inspired Analogue is the perfect place to enjoy a New Orleans-inspired frozen Hurricane, or the chilly Ramos made with City of London gin, lemon, lime, cream, and orange flower water.

Find some of the best frozen drinks in the city on one of the best rooftop patios at Celeste. The beautiful roof garden at this multi-level downtown drinking den features two frozen cocktails for the season. The Electric Pisco Colada contains KAPPA Pisco, roasted pineapple puree, coconut milk, and Creme de Noyeaux, while the Nuclear Caipirinha features Overproof Leblon Cachaca, Velvet Falernum, Green Chartreuse, and lime.

Riffing on the classic Indian drink of yogurt and mango, Wicker Park’s Pub Royale serves up a mango lassi with rum and bitters before giving it the slushie treatment and spicing it with paprika.

NoMI Kitchen
800 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago
(312) 239-4030
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Lost Lake
3154 W. Diversey Avenue, Chicago
(773) 293-6048
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Analogue
2523 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago
(773) 904-8567
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Celeste
111 W. Hubbard Street, Chicago
(312) 828-9000
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Pub Royale
2049 W. Division Street, Chicago
(773) 661-6874
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