{"id":122336,"date":"2025-08-06T01:19:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/122336\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T01:19:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T01:19:09","slug":"twisted-spoke-in-chicagos-west-town-to-close-after-30-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/122336\/","title":{"rendered":"Twisted Spoke in Chicago\u2019s West Town to close after 30 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\"><strong>CHICAGO<\/strong> &#8211; After 30 years in Chicago\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/west-town\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Town<\/a> neighborhood, Twisted Spoke will close its doors.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The announcement was made on the bar and restaurant\u2019s Facebook page on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Twisted Spoke describes itself as &#8220;West Town\u2019s burger, booze &amp; biker bar.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">&#8220;Everything dies. Bars, rock\u2019n\u2019roll, reputations\u2014even the hard men who built them. After 30 years of blood, grease, and bourbon, Twisted Spoke is grinding to a halt,&#8221; the post read.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">The restaurant said Aug. 31 will be its &#8220;last ride.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">&#8220;No more Fatboys. No more wings that could raise the dead. No more Road Rash Mary to cure your sins,&#8221; the post said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-bd34935e=\"\">Owner Mitch Einhorn told <a href=\"https:\/\/blockclubchicago.org\/2025\/08\/05\/twisted-spoke-closing-after-30-years-in-west-town\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Block Club Chicago<\/a> that the decision came about because of high food and labor costs and less late-night dining after the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>     <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/news\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/us\/il\/cook-county\/chicago\/west-town\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">West Town<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox32chicago.com\/tag\/lifestyle\/food-drink\/restaurants\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-bd34935e=\"\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Restaurants<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO &#8211; After 30 years in Chicago\u2019s West Town neighborhood, Twisted Spoke will close its doors. The announcement&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":122337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,5404,8364,5386,1818,1165,50,988,68,27750],"class_list":{"0":"post-122336","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-cook-county","10":"tag-food-drink","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois","13":"tag-lifestyle","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-restaurants","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-west-town"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114979193940252730","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}