Fulton Market is getting a new all-day hangout, as a supper-club concept called Pitch & Pour moves into 1239 W Lake Street in the West Loop. The team plans to keep the lights on from morning through late night, with breakfast and brunch service, a full bar for happy hour, and evening programming built around live music.
A liquor-license application for Pitch & Pour was filed recently, and the storefront that housed InSession Soundbite Lounge is now listed as closed, according to What Now Chicago. Managing partner Brennan Nichols told the outlet the group is aiming for a May opening while city inspections and permitting are still in motion. The early menu pitch includes breakfast sandwiches and wraps, croissant French toast, chicken & waffles, shrimp-focused plates, chargrilled oysters, and a signature wagyu burger.
From Live-Music Lounge To Supper Club
The 1239 W Lake space has a history as a music-and-dining room. The venue’s own site, InSession, lists the Lake Street address and programs nightly acts, while ticketing pages on DICE put the capacity at roughly 350 people. Operators for Pitch & Pour say that track record makes the room a natural fit for a supper club that keeps live music in the mix.
Neighbors, Transit And The Pitch
The spot sits on the west side of the Fulton Market district, near established dining anchors such as Macello, which shows up on reservation platforms like OpenTable. That cluster of restaurants has helped turn this stretch of Lake Street into a de facto dining corridor, a location Nichols says he hopes to lean into, per What Now Chicago. Overhead, the elevated CTA Green and Pink lines rumble along the tracks directly above the block.
Timeline And What To Watch
The team is not committing to a hard opening date, sticking instead with a loose target of “sometime in May” while final inspections and licensing are wrapped up. If that timeline holds, regulars can expect daytime service that gradually shifts into late-night concert-style programming, a model operators hope will plug another all-day music-and-dining option into the Fulton Market scene.
