Chapter 16: Andy
It’s only when I get inside Potent Potables that the name—and where it comes from—hits me. It’s a common category on Jeopardy! where the contestants need to supply, in the form of a question, the name of a cocktail.
The bar’s physical resemblance to the game show ends with its name. Inside, it’s a pretty typical Halsted Street bar, in the commercial space of an old redbrick building; it occupies the first floor with apartments upstairs. I always wonder what kind of guy lives above a bar on Halsted Street. I mean, this section of the thoroughfare, between Addison and Belmont, is lined with gay bars and businesses that cater to the queerer side of the population. Do people rent those units because the close proximity would make it easy to swoop down in the evening, collect
