Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bar

Join us at our monthly Sonorama Party featuring the beer of 5 Rabbit Brewery.

We will be eating out of food trucks from 6-9pm. And we are also going to present LIVE electronic cumbia music by San Diego based artists, Cumbia Machin! Don’t miss this rare night of action.

Sonorama is a Chicago-based Dj collective fronted by Charly Garcia and Eddy Baca and created with the objective of promoting world roots music through our obsessive love of vinyl music culture. More than just djs, we collect, scavenge, and are ever in search of new sonic and rhythmic delights both new, old, or sometimes forgotten, but with the purpose to share our discoveries with the rest of the internet community. Through podcasts and other various media we try and criss-cross geographic borders and genres with ease, and together with our different musical tastes and backgrounds; set out to showcase an eclectic program of rare grooves, musical curios, and Afro influenced dance music, along with any other surprises we dig up along the way.

Back in the 60s or maybe it was the 90s, Chicago had just one craft beer made locally: Baderbraü. Mike Marszweski, co-owner of Maria’s went to school with the brewery owner’s son and remembers drinking it with some sweet polish sausages somewhere up north.  We are excited to see how it tastes today. Come join Baderbraü from 6-9pm for a complementary pint. Lets give em a nice southside welcome. Joe Bryl will make sure your ears have advanced musical flavors. We will be pouring the best beer you can get in Chicago.

The Chicagoist gives them a nice write up.

Also on Friday Night!

SMOKEY JOE’S SOUTHSIDE SOUL SHACK

Featuring Groove Merchant “Smokey” Joe Bryl – Friday May 25 – 8PM-2AM – Free, No Cover

During the sixties and seventies no self-respecting mack-daddy would make the scene to any of Chicago’s many neighborhood night-time blues bars, juke joints or discos without a trip to Maxwell Street and more particularly Smokey Joe’s on the corner of Roosevelt and Halsted, the mecca for the most current dapper and stylish trend-setting clothing. Behind its doors, one could find everything from brightly colored Nehru jackets, flowing paisley patterned shirts, leather jackets fringed with fur, stripped bell-bottomed pants and disco boots with 4 inch heels. This look and attitude was perfectly captured by singer William DeVaughn in his 1972 much-sampled hit “”Be Thankful for What You Got” with its lyrics . . .

Though you may not drive a great big Cadillac
Gangsta whitewalls, TV antennas in the back
You may not have a car at all
But remember brothers and sisters
You can still stand tall
Just be thankful for what you got.
Diamond in the back, sunroof top
Diggin’ the scene with a gangsta lean

To re-imagine and re-live some of this essence Maria’s Package Goods & Community Bar is hosting “Smokey Joe’s Southside Soul Shack” this Friday, May 25. Hosted by crate diggin’ groove merchant “Smokey” Joe Bryl, the party will feature the best soul-drenched songs, funk bombs and underground disco beats from the past and the present. We’re inviting all dapper dudes and hip mamas to polish and put your dancing shoes on for a night of churning and burning dance action.

The funk drops at 8PM and continue until 2AM. There is no cover.

Tonight please enjoy a craft beer pairing with delicious Mini Pasties from Pleasant House Bakery. $9 for a sampling of pasties and  craft beer. Limited supplies. Starts at 7:3opm

Scenario: You expectedly walk into a restaurant and are handed a menu that seems encyclopedic. Within its stylish binding are page after page of dishes of all types and nationalities. The extensive listings run the gamut from simple country breakfast, artisanal urban-raised plates, Korean bibimbap, pastrami on rye, Algerian merguez lamb sausages, pizza by the slice and French bistro fare to seared Alaskan walleye with salsa verde, home-styled meatloaf, Thai sweet and sour mee krob,linguine alla vogole, beef shawarma slathered with tahini, Szechuan spicy pork and fried chicken and waffles (and that’s just page one).

READ ON>>

You are going to lose your tulips this Saturday Night. Live electronic cumbia with Cumbia Machin! Sonorama on the decks. 5 Rabbits joins us for the mayhem and craft beer weekery..

KOREAN POLISH BBQ today. Kimchee by our our Y-mo. Polish by Makowski.
Take $1 off our amazing draft list..

Incredible musical line -up meet incredible draft line-up..

If you have the time go to the MASH TUN FESTIVAL from 1-5pm at the Bridgeport Art Center. Buy your ticket at Maria’s.

If you don’t have the time… then too bad.

But you should come to Maria’s After Party For Mash Tun Festival.

Actually this party begins at noon! We will be pouring over fourteen rare and specialty beers from our favorite breweries. Some brews might be stacked  behind each other .

So far we wil be Pouring:
Firestone Walker Velvet Merlin
Half Acre Galactic Double Daisy Cutter
Stone Smoked Porter with Vanilla Bean
Dogfish Head 120
Dogfish Head World Wide Stout
Dogfish Head Fort
Dogfish Head Immort
Three Floyds Zombie Dust
Three Floyds Ham on Rye
Three Floyds Topless Wytch
Three Floyds Hells-Black Intellicencer
Three Floyds Stygian Darkness
Three Floyds Mushy Pee
Lagunitas Waldo’s Special Ale
La Trappe Witt
St Feuiilen – Tripel
Virtue Cider
+ More surprises..  :)

AND!!!!!!
also on Saturday, May 129, 2012 –  6pm-9pm

Bridgeport Street Eats

Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar (parking lot)
Hungry? Then join a rotating group of Chicago food trucks Saturday nights in May from 6PM to 9PM. It’s a sweet and savory feast under the stars at 31st and Morgan St in Bridgeport (at Maria’s).  Come out for the first South Side culinary invasion of your favorite trucks including (in no particular order):

SlideRide
Don Rafa
Zullo’s
Courageous

Our Friday Firkin Night begins! Once a month Maria’s will be choosing a beer from one of our favorite breweries and having Firkin party as part of our friday night special. Tonight at 7pm we are tapping Flying Dog’s Raging Bitch English IPA. Enjoy.

And if you are lucky you will be the first to enjoy some of the 14 specialty and rare beers we will be pouring for Saturday’s Mash Tun After Party.

Also, if you are smart you will go to our gallery down the block and enjoy the SMALL Showroom’s Friday Night Tastings event! Wild Onion will be sampling their beers from 5-9pm.

To celebrate the awesomeness of Chicago Craft Beer Week we are putting all of our large format bottles on a discount. Take $3 off of all our Big Bottles of Beer on the  menu.

We also will be presenting a  sneak preview release of the Mash Tun Journal. A limited number of copies will be available at the bar for you to purchase. It’s $8.

AND! We will be releasing the Mash Tun Craft Beer Map of Chicago. It’s our free guide to our favorite places to drink (and eat). Enjoy….

And of course we are the headquarters for Bridgeport, Pilsen and Hyde Park for CCBD Lanyards. Come and get em. Put our sticker on your passport map!