The owner of the late Vintage Wine Bar is going retail with this eco-friendly 900sqft wine boutique focusing on affordable, small-production wines and helping out patrons with features like the "Mobile Grape", a basket-equipped trike that will deliver to you at area BYOBs and a special "date night" section stocked with affordable favorites and staffed by friendly advice-givers, though the friendliest advice would be "buy the cheapest bottle of white".

Stop by their grand opening this Friday and/or Saturday for DJs, live music, and complimentary tastings, and get thirsty at NobleGrape.net

The venerable Greektown Irish Pub (go figure) is celebrating a quarter century the only way Irishmen know how--drinking whiskey--as they'll be handing out gratis Jameson paired with Irish cheese, although Colin Farrell doesn't always go down so smoothly.

Get your Irish up at DugansOnHalsted.com

Sprinkled with the ever-useful Bacon Salt (co-founded by a Chi native), this new advancement in snacking combines the joys of spitting shells at people with the unmistakable taste of bacon, and comes in other intriguing new flavors like Vlasic Dill Pickle and Frank's Red Hot Sauce, aka The Only Things Ever In Your Fridge-flavored sunflower seeds.

Help spread their seeds at Bigs.com

They're knocking off up to 50 percent on their entire stockpile of Spring lines: Frenchified preppy gear from APC, casually Swedish threads from Dunderdon, and tees/button downs/outerwear from Cheap Monday, which, if purchased on Monday, come with free irony.

Get your clothes on at ShopPenelopes.com