Park Place Pub is a neighborhood dive bar that contains an incredible burger place called Applewood Smoke Burger Company. The combination of these two businesses under the same roof creates an interesting symbiotic relationship.
In all honesty, I come here for the burgers first and the drinks second, but the pub has a nice dive-y charm, a juke box that's usually on point ( I recall standing outside the front door of the pub with "Don't Look Back in Anger" spilling out onto the street), and a decent selection on tap.
If you don't feel like sitting at home to watch the game, just go over to Park Place Pub, order yourself a ridiculous burger (I'm talking better than BRGR, Burgatory, Stack'd, etc.), grab a beer and enjoy.
Yours Truly,
A Highland Park resident