After a two-year renovation, Logan Square's massive new Mexican spot, Fuego Mexican Grill and Margarita Bar, opened in April in a former nightclub. With menus for family-style dining and cocktail receptions, the restaurant offers Mexican staples such as guacamole, quesadillas, tamales, and enchiladas, and items can be passed, plated, or served at food stations.
The venue's lower-level tequila lounge can seat 300; on the main floor, the semiprivate Maria Felix dining room (named for the mural of the Mexican actress that covers one of its walls) can seat 100. Across from the dining room, a margarita bar stocked with 150 kinds of liquor leads to a semiprivate space known as La Cantina, which can seat 40; in back of the main floor, the private Agave dining room seats 60.
Later this month, the second-level V Live lounge—a clubby space filled with leather armchairs, red velvet curtains, and chandeliers—will open. The space can seat 200 or host about 300 for cocktails, and is equipped with eight private restrooms and flat-screen TVs that can hook up to laptops or DVD players.
On the third floor, a sprawling live music venue offers a stage, reception space for 1,000, and a two-level seating area for bottle service. Two skyboxes, referred to as the Red room and the Leopard room, overlook the stage area and provide standing room for 200 and 300 guests, respectively.