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Milli Milli is an all-day café, bakery, and wine shop in Chicago’s Avondale neighborhood.

We serve specialty coffee by Metric, fresh pastries, playful seasonal food, and a curated selection of wines—all with a focus on craftsmanship, hospitality, and community. Milli is an all-day café, bakery, and wine shop in Chicago’s Avondale neighborhood, created by the team behind Metric Coffee. We serve specialty coffee, fresh pastries, playful seasonal food, and a curated selection of wines—crafted with the same care and precision that’s guided our roasting for over a decade. Rooted in curiosity and hospitality, Milli is designed as a gathering place where good coffee, good food, and good company meet. From morning lattes and sourdough loaves to afternoon lunches and evening glasses of wine, we welcome you to settle in and enjoy.

10/20/2026

We are three days away from our new dine-in menu and we’re thrilled to partner with Row 7 Seed Company founded by Dan Barber for two autumn specials featuring their organic cross-pollinated squash. These items will be available at Milli with Row 7 produce starting this Friday, October 23.

Our Squash Tartine is bright and colorful with peels of Row 7 Koginut Squash, known for its rich nutty flavor and velvety texture, paired with whipped goat’s milk ricotta, roasted eggplant, buckwheat honey, pickled daikon, and pepitas on toasted house Durum Sourdough. Our new Squash and Pepita Brittle Eclair starts with rye choux, and is filled with Row 7 Honeypatch Squash amazake, spiced molasses cake, vanilla whipped ganache, and spiced pepita crumble for the perfect crunch.

10/02/2026

Our iced Vermouth & Strawberry Creme is perfect for the lingering late afternoon and early evening hours that are meant to be spent unwinding with friends.

We’re proud to serve on draft behind the bar. Their Vermut Rojo is made from a blend of Garnacha Blanca and Airén grapes, and it’s warm and gently spiced but cut with citrus and light bitterness. The strawberry creme can be mixed in for a boozy cream soda effect. We’ll meet you at the bar!

09/17/2026

A glimpse of a day in the life at Milli! There’s always the option to stop for a moment and enjoy a plated pastry and coffee, or to swing by the to-go room on the weekends. It’s open every Friday- Sunday from 7am- 2pm with pre-orders available online through Toast.

These pastries have remained on the menu since opening. The canele is a signifier of our pastry program: it’s elevated and classic, yet made with attention to detail so that the cultured butter and rum flavors shine through. Our Paradise Bun has the unique warming spice flavors from Grains of Paradise, but the jam and compote rotates seasonally, so it always feels new. Our Valrhona North America Pain au Chocolate and Salty Rye Chocolate Chip Cookie are classics for a reason.

✨Our To Go Room and Toast Pre-Order is Open! ✨It’s a small shift with a simple purpose, to make things move a little mor...
05/15/2026

✨Our To Go Room and Toast Pre-Order is Open! ✨

It’s a small shift with a simple purpose, to make things move a little more gently for everyone. If you’re grabbing coffee and a pastry to go, you’ll now have a dedicated space, quicker ordering, shorter wait times, and a clearer path through the morning rush. You can pick up your to go orders at the Kedzie facing entrance to the side of the main entrance. Your pastries will be waiting for you and your drink will be made as soon as you get here.

Inside, this also opens us up to something we’ve been moving toward for a while, more attentive service, a shorter line.

Alongside it, we’re adding things you can take with you, loaves of bread, overnight oats, parfaits, food made to hold you through the day, now available on toast for pre-order Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

We’ll meet you there.
-Milli

Friends!We’ve started pouring vermouth on draft. We want it to become part of the rhythm of this place, something woven ...
05/07/2026

Friends!

We’ve started pouring vermouth on draft. We want it to become part of the rhythm of this place, something woven into afternoons and conversations, poured generously and often. A small glass beside a flaky pastry, something crispy, something rich.

There’s romance in rituals that don’t require an occasion. In aperitifs before dinner, in bitter things made soft, in treating vermouth less like something forgotten on a back bar and more like something alive, herbal, meant to be shared. It’s a philosophy we carry into our coffee service too, intentional, curious about the story behind what’s in the glass.

Our Vermouth & Rhubarb Creme has quietly become a staff favorite: cold herbal vermouth softened with a cloud of vegan rhubarb creme, both refreshingly bitter and lush, an ode to spring.

Come let us pour you one.

-Milli

✨Milli loves Moms✨We love having you here with your children, laughing (or crying, that’s really ok) with chocolate cove...
05/04/2026

✨Milli loves Moms✨

We love having you here with your children, laughing (or crying, that’s really ok) with chocolate covered faces in the dining rooms, fuzzy headed newborns dusted in croissant flakes, evidence of a meal eaten one handed.

It’s something we once only imagined, and now have the privilege of witnessing, every day, in this space. We love having you here on your own, a moment away, a pastry you don’t have to share and coffee you can drink, hot, till the bottom of the cup, you deserve it.

To celebrate Mother’s Day this year, Sunday May 10th, we’ll be hosting a diaper drive on behalf of . EveryMom provides comprehensive kits containing essential newborn, postpartum, and breastfeeding supplies. If you’re able, bring a package of unopened diapers, or wipes, any size.

We’ll pour you a drip on us.

-Milli

P.s. stay tuned this week for a very exciting announcement.

✨🚨We’re hiring for our Savory team. 🚨✨To work in tandem with our pastry program as we evolve, deep reverence and respect...
04/30/2026

✨🚨We’re hiring for our Savory team. 🚨✨

To work in tandem with our pastry program as we evolve, deep reverence and respect for pastry and bread as the foundation is paramount.

We value curiosity, and a willingness to explore the intersections of every part of our cafe, coffee, pastry, w**e and service. We’re looking for folks who can compliment the passion, care and intention of what has already been built here behind the scenes in our kitchen. If interested, send us a cover letter and your resume, to [email protected]

Weekdays: laptops away after 2pm.Fridays, Weekends: no laptops. A love letter, because we want to say it this way,To you...
04/13/2026

Weekdays: laptops away after 2pm.
Fridays, Weekends: no laptops.

A love letter, because we want to say it this way,

To you, who arrive already divided. Part of you here, part of you pulled taut somewhere else, inside a message, a deadline, a future that keeps asking for proof of your devotion. We recognize this. We often find ourselves inside it too.

What if you could sit at a table and belong to nothing but the hour you are in? The pastries we make do not wait for you to catch up, they are alive only at the insistence of a season, the grain, the orchard, the rain. The w**es we pour are born from grapes tended in collaboration with seasonal and cosmic rhythms, guided by subtle human intuition, each bottle a map of its place, its year, its labor. The coffee travels continents, mornings begun before ours, processed and roasted to reveal structure, tension, clarity, body, to arrive in your hands fully expressed. All of this asks one thing: presence.

So, we make this gentle, unyielding request: after 2pm Monday - Thursday, let’s put the laptops away. Friday- Sunday, let the tables breathe free of them entirely. Not as a restriction, but as an offering. As a chance to meet what is here, what is fleeting, what requires you to be present.

You are allowed, even briefly, to be unclaimed by the world outside our door.

Love,
Milli

Friends! Introducing the Kedzie Handshake. Across cultures and time, people have marked transitions in the day with humb...
04/10/2026

Friends!

Introducing the Kedzie Handshake.

Across cultures and time, people have marked transitions in the day with humble pairings, bread and b**r, a wh***ey and a pint, espresso with something sweet. Not just for sustenance, but for pause, for that moment between what was and what comes next.

Here on Kedzie Avenue, in the culturally rich neighborhood of Avondale, that feeling of transition is familiar. This street has always carried people between shifts, between roles, between versions of themselves.
The Kedzie Handshake lives in that in between.

A shot of rotating single origin espresso, a 6 oz draft b**r, and a bite of something sweet. A small, steadying ritual. A transitional offering for the space between.

On your way home to a hungry family (whatever that means to you), stepping into your next class, or just before you clock in.

We’re here, on Kedzie,
Stop by. Say hi. Shake hands.

Our kitchen is expanding! We’re looking for bakers who are passionate about bread, viennoiserie, and pastry, and ideally...
04/02/2026

Our kitchen is expanding!

We’re looking for bakers who are passionate about bread, viennoiserie, and pastry, and ideally have experience on the savory line. If sourcing, technique, and curiousity for the unconventional excite you, we want to hear from you.

Apply through the link in our profile.

Address

3110 N Kedzie
Chicago, IL
60618

Opening Hours

Monday 7am - 4am
Tuesday 7am - 4am
Wednesday 7am - 4am
Thursday 7am - 4am
Friday 7am - 4am
Saturday 7am - 4am
Sunday 7am - 4am

Telephone

+13127726536

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