G&O, the latest project from Aberdeen Tap coowner Chris Mitchell, has been open for six months, but I wouldn’t be surprised if someone told me they were unaware it even exists. Tucked away into a weird, triangular pocket at the intersection of Grand, Ogden, and Racine, the onetime auto garage is further removed from sight by a walled-off patio that pushes the venue away from street traffic. Lack of visibility was partially to blame for the shuttering of the space’s previous inhabitant, Clutch, but that closing was presumably due to opening up a bar/dining concept too similar to the Twisted Spoke, a superior and far more prominent business in the same intersection, with its distinctive twirling statue of a skeleton riding a motorcycle on the roof. When I heard that G&O was serving up craft cocktails and bar food not all that different from what’s served at Twisted Spoke, I smelled the same fate that befell Clutch. Then again, Aberdeen Tap is a surreptitious space that has thrived in the River West/West Town area—maybe the same team could finally turn this odd corner into a neighborhood mainstay.
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September 10, 2022 · 1 min · 187 words · Jill Clark