The back half of a familiar Andersonville corner is lined up for a cocktail bar. Sin & Tonic, from The Fifty/50 Group, is planned for 1481 W. Berwyn Ave., behind Devil Dawgs in the former Reza's building at Berwyn and Clark.
Block Club Chicago reports the bar will pour alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and would be the group's first Andersonville location. Beverage director and Sin & Tonic partner Andrew Marinelli told the outlet the team is aiming for a mid-December opening.
November On The Homepage
The company website is on a faster clock. The Fifty/50 Group is advertising a neighborhood cocktail bar "Opening this November 2026 in Andersonville." November still has a couple of weeks in it. Mid-December is what the partner building the drink program actually said. Neither line is a confirmed opening.
That gap is the whole public schedule. No hours, prices or seating count have been pinned down with it.
Hot Dogs Through A Hallway
Sin & Tonic and Devil Dawgs are expected to stay separate businesses, joined by a hallway. Bar customers will be able to order some Devil Dawgs food without the two operations collapsing into one menu. An outdoor patio is also planned along Berwyn Avenue.
Marinelli's pitch is less about a secret cocktail list than about who gets a seat. "Anybody who comes in will be able to enjoy either a really good drink or great mocktail, and I want everybody to feel welcome," he told Block Club.
The Corner After Reza's
The storefront has already been through one ending and one abandoned bar plan. Reza's, the longtime Persian restaurant at Berwyn and Clark, closed in 2023. Heisler Hospitality later planned a bar called Demijohn for the space, then decided it was not the right fit.
The neighbor that did open is not another restaurant. Dentologie, an upscale dental office, opened in 2024 in the adjacent storefront at 5255 N. Clark St. The cocktail bar, if the calendar cooperates, would take the rear of the old Reza's building rather than that Clark Street frontage.
A Large Group, A New Block
The Fifty/50 Group says Scott Weiner and Greg Mohr founded it in 2008 and that it now owns and operates more than 20 restaurants, cocktail lounges and event destinations. Andersonville has not been on that map. Sin & Tonic would be the first outpost.
Until someone actually unlocks the door, the practical detail is the disagreement in plain sight: the homepage is selling November, and the beverage director is aiming for the middle of December, with a patio on Berwyn and a hallway back to the hot dogs.
