Cafe Neckbeard

Cafe Neckbeard Cafe Neckbeard works with local farmers and scientists to create the most interesting, passionate, a Please visit our place soon. We will be so happy to see you!

The Chicago Reader calls it "the most dangerous and ridiculous cafe in the world" and Time-Out Chicago calls it, "Totally irresponsible but impossible to ignore." And the Chicago Health Department called it, "Closed due to unsafe practices for a month in 2013." Cafe Neckbeard in Logan Sqaure (CNB@LS) was started in 2007 in the backyard of Chef Anton "Star" Anise. What began as a hobby in his backy

ard, experimenting with local tree bark and nuts and seeing the animals in his backyard as more than just pests, he started a journey that is currently a 20 table experimental eatery that baffles tongues and manipulates and twists your brains, but in an upscale way.

In Cafe Neckbeard: Irresistible, PR representative Chris Bower unveils the latest offering from Anton “*” Anis, propriet...
09/23/2025

In Cafe Neckbeard: Irresistible, PR representative Chris Bower unveils the latest offering from Anton “*” Anis, proprietor of THLSN’s only 24-hour, cash-only, celiac-intolerant fine dining establishment, as he debuts a menu designed to be “irresistible” to those with diminished oral tastebuds, with the goal of reaching taste receptors in other, less traditional parts of the body.

Facility is located at 1138 N. California Ave, near the southeast corner of Humboldt Park, just south of Division. Metered street parking is available nearby on California and along the border of the park, but it is often tricky to find a spot, so please budget extra time if driving. The California and Division buses also stop close to the venue.

All tickets offered on a pay-what-you-can sliding scale, with a suggested donation of $20. Facility is an accessible first-floor venue with two accessible restrooms. Beverages will be available for purchase at the box office.

Curious Theatre Branch's world premiere from Chris Bower,"The Ship and the Sea" is Chicago Reader RECOMMENDED! "'The Shi...
09/12/2024

Curious Theatre Branch's world premiere from Chris Bower,
"The Ship and the Sea" is Chicago Reader RECOMMENDED! "'The Ship and the Sea' offers a poignant meditation on the eternal and temporal." Now playing through September 29 at Facility. Tickets at CuriousTheatreBranch.com.

The Ship and The Sea returns, September 6th, at Facility for a run of 12 shows, Friday, Saturday at 8 PM, Sunday at 5 PM...
08/03/2024

The Ship and The Sea returns, September 6th, at Facility for a run of 12 shows, Friday, Saturday at 8 PM, Sunday at 5 PM. We are in rehearsals now. Cast includes Vicki Walden, Andrew Schoen, Lola Zimmerman, Kristy Lockhart, Lena Brun and Paul Brennan. Charlotte Lastra is managing the show and helping me design everything. I couldn't be more excited. Illustration by Dominique A. Holmes and poster designed by Jeffrey Bivens. This is a Curious Theatre Branch production. Ticket link in comments!

04/13/2024

Chapter 6 The Street

Chapter 3 of Moby Dick, The Spouter Inn Part 3 of 3.
04/06/2024

Chapter 3 of Moby Dick, The Spouter Inn Part 3 of 3.

Café neckbeard presents a pig reads Moby Dick to you

Go see The Good! Friday and Saturday 8 PM sunday 3 pm Chicago Dramatists
04/05/2024

Go see The Good! Friday and Saturday 8 PM sunday 3 pm Chicago Dramatists

Jenny Magnus explores our assumptions around morality and the roles we must play in her new solo show with songs for Curious Theatre Branch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht7vnunxpmU&feature=youtu.beThis is Chapter 4 of the Cafe Neckbeard Saga, which follows ...
04/05/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ht7vnunxpmU&feature=youtu.be

This is Chapter 4 of the Cafe Neckbeard Saga, which follows the story of Chef Anton "*" Anis' Cafe Neckbeard, The Historic Logan Square Neighborhood's (THLSN'S) only 24 hour fine dining celiac intolerant explosively experimental and experimenatlly explosive cafe. This chapter explores Chris Bower (PR Rep and Procurement Specialist) and Doughboy's running of a coffee delivery service out of Cafe Neckbeard called The Pig and The Bear Bring You Coffee in Logan Square, while the fine dining cafe stalled during the Covid-19 pandemic. Chris tells the story of what happened and more. If you want to see the other chapters of this story, including Chapter 1 (Dinner in the Neck of the Whale) Chapter 2 (Dinner in the Forest of Ambergris and Glass) and Chapter 3 (99% Celery), let me know and I will put them on YouTube. Chapter 5 will be coming in June 2025.

Starring Chris Bower and Steak Richardson
Written and directed by Chris Bower
Stage Managed by Maximus Burger
Show date May 6, 2022
Jimmy Beans Cafe
1000 feet east of THLSN
Part of Rhino Fest 2022
Thanks to Curious Theatre Branch
Cafe Neckbeard theme song written by Seth Vanek and Chris Bower
All music in show is fair use, as there is no attempt for monetization of this video.

This is Chapter 4 of the Cafe Neckbeard Saga, which follows the story of Chef Anton "*" Anis' Cafe Neckbeard, The Historic Logan Square Neighborhood's (THLSN...

04/04/2024

A pig reads Moby Dick to you. Chapter 3 the spouter inn part two of three.

04/03/2024

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04/02/2024

A Pig Reads Moby Dick To You: Chapter 3 The Spouter Inn. Part one

03/31/2024

A Pig reads Moby Dick to you

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3412 W Shakespeare Avenue
Chicago, IL
60647

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(773) 484-7980

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