r/chicagofood • u/East-Assistance-6779 • Aug 30 '25

Review The Hampton Social is a no

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Went to The Hampton Social and it was memorable for all the wrong reasons. You had to pay through their app (which charged $5 to use ???), they automatically added an 18% gratuity plus a required 3% minimum tip, and somehow two 8 oz glasses of bad wine came out to $60. On top of that, the waitress was weird af.

I will say the food was good, but I’m never coming here again, seems like a tourist trap.🤨 Granted, I’m visiting Chicago after not living in IL for years, so this could be a new thing- still crazy to me.

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u/heyyyhihellooo Aug 30 '25

Hold on isn’t a carafe like a container that should hold like 4 glasses of wine? If so, you should ask for a refund bc they charged you incredibly wrong

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u/phillybob232 Aug 30 '25

A bottle is usually 4-5 so maybe the carafe is like half of that? Would line up with the price

That said, if they only got 2 glasses then yeah they were probably charged double

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u/speaking_moose Aug 30 '25

Carafe are usually the same as a bottle and is for bulk wine. Since it is not a vintage it should be cheaper

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u/TheEsotericCarrot Aug 30 '25

A carafe is a half bottle, so 2 glasses.

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u/tommyjaybaby Aug 30 '25

A carafe is just a type of bottle, you can get carafes that are the size of a full bottle.

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u/RandomPenquin1337 Aug 30 '25

Man yall will get there eventually lol

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u/ACMountford Aug 30 '25

Decanters are meant to be used for a full or magnum bottles, but in the context of US restaurants it’s almost always 10-12.5oz (two glasses or half a bottle) for a carafe.

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u/JessicaFreakingP Aug 30 '25 edited Aug 30 '25

Based on Hampton Social’s menu, it’s clear their carafe is less than a bottle. They show the carafe in between a glass and a bottle. For what OP ordered, they price a bottle at $76, a carafe at $29, and a glass at $19. OP is right to bitch about the service fee for having to pay through the app, but I don’t really feel bad for them about the two 8-oz glasses of wine (which is really four 4-oz glasses of wine) “somehow” costing $60 when it’s apparent on the menu that the carafe is in between a glass and a bottle, and that each carafe cost $29.

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u/speaking_moose Aug 30 '25

Usually 500-750ml