Marie's Rip Tide lounge is a late-night Bucktown lounge and dive-bar. It has garnered national attention numerous times, most recently by its appearance on Late Night with Conan O'Brien, where he referred to it as his "favorite Chicago bar". Marie's is open until 4 am on weekends and is known for its pickled eggs and Old Style sold by the six-pack.
Marie's was filmed in an episode of the 80's drama Crime Story, and was the subject of songs including Robbie Fulks' Marie's Riptide and Michael McDermott's 20 Miles South of Nowhere.
In addition, Marie's has recently earned numerous honors, including:
- Editorial Winner for Best Dive Bar in Citysearch: Chicago's annual poll (2000)
- Editorial Winner for Best Jukebox (Citysearch 2001)
- Editorial Winner for Best Bar to Celebrate the Holidays (Citysearch 2001)
- Top After-Hours Bar by Digital City Chicago (2002)
- One of Citysearch's Top 10 Taverns in the US (2002)
Famous quotes containing the words marie, rip, tide and/or lounge:
“In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.”
—Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)
“I never knowed how clothes could change a body before. Why, before, he looked like the orneriest old rip that ever was; but now, when he’d take off his new white beaver and make a bow and do a smile, he looked that grand and good and pious that you’d say he had walked right out of the ark, and maybe was old Leviticus himself.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and brown
The traveler hastens toward the town,
And the tide rises, the tide falls.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)
“we are the circle of the crazy ladies
who sit in the lounge of the mental house
and smile at the smiling woman
who passes us each a bell,”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)