Watershed

This cozy, stone-walled underground eatery serves local craft beers and local eats to people lounging on comfy couches and armchair-like barstools. The menu offers house-made pickles, 11 local-cheese choices, a selection of sharable plates (such as lamb pate with a violet mustard accoutrement, $9), and bites (such as roasted acorn squash with candied pecans, $3) to coax appetites out of their cavernous belly burrows. After tending to your tummy, satisfy your beer tooth with a bottle from breweries such as Illinois’s own Two Brothers Brewing Company, Ohio’s Great Lakes Brewing Company, and Tyranena from Wisconsin (most are $5–8). WaterShed's warm, welcoming staff will be happy to walk you through other local offerings of spirits and wines by the glass or bottle, or talk to you about the best way to love Garfield more.