Such a fun bar! The games and the drinks are very reasonably priced! We came here after a work holiday dinner and we had such a blast! Cant wait to come back again ^_^ I still have some leftover coins!

Decent beer selection at the end of the day but only 6 on tap at the moment of this writing. Mix of arcade games, pool tables, air hockey, etc leaves options for everyone. Great vibes all around and caters to Fulton market.

Great fun younger crowd but plenty of games to play. 2 pool tables didnt wait long to play. Great selection of beers. No food but you can bring your own or have it delivered there.

So fun! Great games and if one of them ate a token, the staff was super cool about helping you out. Good beer too! Went after brunch on a Saturday. A small birthday party came in not long after us with a wee baby. Seems to be family and friend friendly.

Lots of pinball machines and some great old school arcade machines. They also have billiards, air hockey, and Foosball. Also, the bar is huge and serves great drinks!

Good not great. Bartenders were fine, beer is beer. Place was definitely presentable and in line with neighborhood standards. Not enough games for an arcade (beercade). Fulton market = no parking. Still a great place to just stop in for a beer just wouldnt make a night out of it.

Went for a night out with my bestfriend. This was my 1st time here and I was completely blown away! EMPORIUM ROCKS! It was so amazing. The atmosphere fun and the place is lined with games (all the old favorites). Need I say more....when in Chicago, Emporia is a must!!!

Fun spot with full bar and classic arcade games. There are a few pool tables, air hockey tables, foosball tables and its open late. The vibe is chill and the place attracts all types of people. There were people in there having fun in their gala dresses and others in jeans. The DJ played some great new and classic hip hop (it was Saturday night).

Smaller than their other locations, but still pretty good?

Nice environment,friendly people, great games, and good drinks. Parking is scarce. It was my 1st time at this location but, Ill definitely be back. Oh Monday-Thursday 4-7pm is happy hour.

Fun and chill spot with fun games and average drinks.

So fun! Great games and if one of them ate a token, the staff was super cool about helping you out. Good beer too! Went after brunch on a Saturday. A small birthday party came in not long after us with a wee baby. Seems to be family and friend friendly.

Great bar. Fun arcade. We always have extra tokens left over.

Casual and fun bar. Tired of your plain old bars with bad beers? The Emporium not only has some cool games to play for very cheap (played games for 2 hours for $10), but they also have a good selection of craft beers. Great spot to go after dinner.

This place is so much fun! Original games and pin ball machines. Dj on site. It was quite cramped. A lot of people in the place. Wait for pool and air hockey tables. They have their own beers and then PBR. No food. Not for kids

Always a fan of emporium bars and this is no expeception. Great music and games. Beer list is always good and cocktails arent bad either.

Cool little bar with old school hip hop. The games are not that great but its a fun place to stop by and kill some time if youre in the area.

I LOVED the atmosphere here. On a day trip from a college town this place blew me out if the water. The fashioned is pricy, but paired with the happy hour clams, and the ability to tweak my own drink while talking with bar staff was exactly what I wanted. Im going to visit here more whenever I can.

Came here last night to celebrate a friends 21st birthday. Atmosphere was good, and the games are well maintained. Only 1 air hockey table had issues. Most importantly the service from the bartenders was AMAZING, both when I was sitting at the bar and when I came up for drinks. Never went long with an empty drink in my hand. The male bartender especially was very nice and very attentive, drinks were very good. The space here is a little smaller than other Emporiums but we had a great time!

Really good game bar for pinball and some retro arcade games. Everything takes tokens, but even the pins (which are mostly in very good shape) are only one token, and the free credit thresholds are set very low.

Upbeat vibe with a DJ on Friday night. Games played with tokens. Drinks. An adult playground.

One of many arcade bars across Chicago, but very fun on the weekends. Solid beers on tap.

Fun bar with a lot of selection but the games were pretty rough when I was there. Most pins had issues and some of the cabinets had monitor problems and loose stearing wheels. The token system makes no sense considering everything is one token. At a quarter a play just make it free. Its a bad attempt at customer retention that isnt necessary. Overall if you want to hangout and play air hockey it is great if you want to enjoy arcade games it isnt always the best.

The drinks are cheap relative to other bars in the area but the place itself was tiny. Most of the games in there had something wrong with them, from broken joysticks to machines not working altogether. The game selection was also pretty small and a lot of staple games youd expect to be in an arcade, like say street fighter 2, were absent from this place. There are other better beercades including the other emporium locations

Loved hanging out here for a couple of beers and some games!

If you like games, pool and skiball. This emporium is the palce for you. It has an open concept which is pretty cool. Great beer selection and the staff is very friendly. Deff stop in for some tmnt nostaligia via the footclan Hangouts. Read em and weep..full-house. awesome beer selection :)

Sooo fun! We played a few rounds of pool with friends and strangers!

I had $10 in tokens, and left with $4. Outfitted with pool tables, air hockey, pin ball, skeet ball, and arcade games; there was enough fun to go around.Great place to throw a few drinks back, while watching a sporting event, and playing some classic arcade games.

A cool and upscale joint in west loop. Great atmosphere and vibe. Strong, tasty cocktails too.

The cocktails were great, the staff was even better. Cant wait to return. Chicago has a lot of great cocktails spots, this is one of them.

Fun vibe, pretty good drinks menu, and prices aren’t outrageous considering it’s the West Loop. Great place for a date! Got $10 worth of tokens and probably only ended up using half so we’ll have some for next time!

Fun playing games while drinking. Appeals to that generation who still remembers arcades before modern tech took over

Although its smaller than most beercades Ive been to, it scratches the itch. The service was great and there was always something to play. My faves are Fooseball, Superchex (aka bubble hockey) and skee ball. There arent a ton of arcade games, but I got sucked into Rampage, just like back in the day. Theres also a handful of pinball games against a wall, but playing those games just reiterated how lousy of a player I am. I guess you cant always dodge the truth.

Great arcade bar located at the West Loop! It has some cool pinball options.

Came here last night to celebrate a friends 21st birthday. Atmosphere was good, and the games are well maintained. Only 1 air hockey table had issues. Most importantly the service from the bartenders was AMAZING, both when I was sitting at the bar and when I came up for drinks. Never went long with an empty drink in my hand. The male bartender especially was very nice and very attentive, drinks were very good. The space here is a little smaller than other Emporiums but we had a great time!

Cheap beer, nice pool tables, can find tokens all over the bar, love that there are so many game options. Love the glowing designs all over the walls. Really like the photo booth and the bathroom! So cool!

Great fun for people in my age group. All the games we played as kids with a cocktail. Check Groupon for deals. Great first date spot.

Very good beer and arcade, do you need more? This place is almost perfect. I love it.

Great place and fun:) Can not recommend the cocktails but they have nice craft beers on draft

Nice place. Nice games!

Great staff. Galaga. Kicker. Skee ball. Air Hockey. Pool. All the things I need!

Its possible my feelings on this location are tainted because I went for an after work vibe and it was nearly empty. It didnt start filling up until 9p on a Thursday. That said, the games as always are great, but the drinks are lacking. There wasnt a beer I was particularly excited about and the prices were a buck or so higher than Id like, but its the new West Loop. The cocktails are a sore spot. I ordered a Blame It On the Juice for $13 and it came out an intense aquamarine color and tasted of bad energy drink. I wouldnt come again.

Service was great. Craft cocktails and a great menu, with fantastic atmosphere.

Great spot, open late, loads of fun

This is going to be what I call a *qualified* five-star rating; selection and amount of games (especially pinball) better than what youd expect from a smaller storefront like this, but their beer selection is more limited than Wicker Parks drafts and Logan Squares cans, and the floor layout nearly had me tripping walking up to the riser where the pinball machines are or getting elbowed by pool players when I walked past. Still a lot of fun, though.

Cool atmosphere, a great place to hang out with friends

Cool place to play some vintage games or foos ball.

Amazing!! Great music and great atmosphere!!

Great games and good drinks. $10 Worth of tokens gets you a long way

Old video games for a little nostalgia. Got love it. And the beer selection is great as well.

Its expensive but the atmosphere and drinks are impressive and unique. I recommend the deconstructed old fashioned.

So fun lots of old school games!

Good games and decent pool tables. The beer selection leaves something to be desired. It is a little weird. One would expect miller, Coors, Budweiser in what is clearly a blue collar bar that is verging in a dive bar. They seem to have mixed sense of their identity.

Some games have issues other than that a nice place to hangout with friends

What a great spot! We stopped in after a bite at Kumas, and had an awesome time. Some of the games were down, but that is to be expected. Bar service was fast, and there was a good selection for games.

Fun little place to go for a quick drinks and some games.

This is a OLD SCHOOL ARCADE GAMES dream! Theres games such as pac-Man, pinball, nba 1990, billiards, air hockey, fusball and many more.Each game takes tokens about one to two. We used $5 and got about 20 tokens. This venue is strictly 21+ and have a vast menu of cocktails. This place is great to attend after dinner and drinks with friends.

Drinks okay, good variety of games. Pool ends up being ruled by a couple of teams. Should have house rules that must be followed unless stated upfront. Also singles on a pool table on a Friday night? What is up with that?

Cool place but the amount of games is disappointing.

Really wouldnt recommend this place. Air hockey and skee ball tables are breaking, limited game selection, and you have to pay for the games. It may be a convenient location, but Id suggest going to Replay on the West Side. Wider selection and the majority of their games are free. Really had too expectations for this place.

Smaller than the original, beer choices are bad,they just have over priced cocktails. Uptight vibe compared to the original.

Emporium in Fulton Market is not as big as some other Emporiums but it is a great place to stop after or before lunch at one of the excellent restaurants in the area. A game of pool is only $0.50, and they also have air hockey and foosball in addition to the arcade and pinball games. A good variety to play for a small space. We had a good time!

Good energy. Good vibes. Good peoples.

A few of the games were in disrepair but otherwise a good experience. Pinball has best selection

Cool place, nice cocktails with funny names and awesome games. Bartender could have been nicer but maybe that was just supposed to be the vibe. Will go back anyway!

Great place for a birthday party! From airhockey to pinball, they have a nice selection of games. Just beware that space can be tight, especially after 8-9 pm.

There werent many games and it was really loud

Super fun old games! Outside area is nice when the weathers warm.

If you love to drink and play old video games and pinball, this is the place to be.They are all pretty old games so some machines tend to eat up tokens but the staff there were more than happy to give free tokens back to you if you mention that the game ate your tokens.

Wonderful memories reside there for me... Seriously go make some of your own!!!... Overall 8/10

This is a fun place to hang out at. There are so many different types of games you could play- arcade, ping pong, bowling, VR, darts, etc. Some are free and others you have to pay for.You can get tables to sit down to eat and drink. They do offer event packages if you wanted to have your birthday or work event here.It gets crazy busy on weekend so there is a wait for a lot of the games.Service isnt the best but I dont think most people are here for food/drink service.

Friendly employees and okay selection of games. Cant go wrong with this place if you have a date or a group.

Great drinks and fun games

You would expect more life in the atmosphere.. its very dark, dirty, sticky & bland. More than a handful of the games didnt work. Drinks were made super WEAK

Great bubble hockey machine

Fun games and a good bar. Two pool tables that seem to be too busy. This place could use a third one. Games take tokens and there are exchange machines so bring cash or your debit card. There is an ATM. Games are about 50 cents each. There are air hockey tables, fooseball, skeeball, racing arcade games, pinball and a ton of other machines. There is some kind of hockey game right in between two bathrooms. Silly placement and an awkward place to play. Drinks are good, games are inexpensive, and service is prompt. I will come back!

The beer selection was pretty good and the cocktail menu looked really diverse as well (although I did not try any). We spent a couple of hours there playing games. I wish they had a few more old school arcade games but overall the place is in a great spot, the service was good, and I liked the atmosphere.

Its an ok place. I like retro games, but its always so doggone crowded and you cant get to the games!

Not as good as headquarters. You have to pay for the games here. Drink choices are very limited. Not a bad place, but not for me

Fun casual place with old games...good vibe all having fun

Had a great time here with some girl friends. Had a good variety of beer and wine plus some awesome cocktails. We ordered a handful of dishes and loved everything we had. Def coming back for dinner. Our server was great too. Bonus, the couch seat was super comfy!

Very disappointed that some of the games were broken. NBA Jam and Rescue 911. Some others were also in average condition.

Beer selection sucks in this place and so does the service. Bartender could smile more rather than trying to look tough! Video games could be better.

Nice place to hangout at in the area. Decent arcade games, pool tables and air hockey tables. Drinks were great and the staff was very helpful and friendly. Would recommend to make a night out in the area and hit up Emporium arcade with your friends.

Good place just for short time. Not many pool tables.Overall it is just ok

Great selection of games and beer. Games tend to be down for a while if they break.

Fun place, great arcade games, pinball machines, pool, table hockey and Notre the have skeeball. This place brings back memories

Has a little less personality than the other Emporium locations but still has the good beer selection and lots of game options

I think the Wicker Park one is cooler though.

Much smaller and less offerings than the other 2 locations in Chicago

Great beer, great games, great people

I went on a very crowded night, so Ill give it the benefit of the doubt for that. Very hard to get to the bar to order, long waits for lines, and a few games broke while I was there. Im sure its more fun when theres some elbow room!

Great place to just hang out and have some adult fun at night

4 stars because the music was the right volume that I could easily hold a conversation the whole time I was there, which almost never happens. Because of this if definitely go back.Visited on a Thursday and service at the bar got a little slow after a huge crowd showed up at the same time around 10:00. Be aware that video games require tokens, which require cash to purchase. Not surprisingly almost no one was playing the games. (-1 star for slow service and having to pay for games)

Arcade games and great draft beer?! What more can you ask for. West loop needed more casual bars and emporium is a welcome addition to the neighborhood

Too many suits trying to be cool

This place is fun! You do have to pay for all the games. I came on a Saturday and the DJ was actually great if not a little loud for an arcade bar

Fun place!

If you get $20 in quarters, youre playing for a long, long time.

I love The Betty, Ive been here a few times now. The cocktails are interesting and the vibe is pretty cool. Its a good date spot or place to catch up with a group of friends but not the bar Id go to if you want to meet strangers.From a food perspective I tried the Arancini which were good and the cauliflower entree which sounded really good on paper but in reality was just mediocre.Overall its a nice spot in the Fulton Market area and definitely worth checking out.