Guide: At OKAY Cannabis consumption lounge near Chicago, you can have your cake balls and smoke cannabis too

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OKAY Cannabis and West Town Bakery in Wheeling is the first and only consumption lounge where you can have your cake balls and smoke cannabis too, all with a focus on craft.

Akemi Almeida, right, laughs as Lucas Ewing, left, smokes marijuana, during baked bingo night on April 9, 2024, in the consumption lounge at OKAY Cannabis Dispensary and West Town Bakery in Wheeling.

And you can’t drink alcohol from the bar in the lounge, either. That includes the creative cocktails by beverage director Julieta Campos. “Don’t feel like this is something you need to go online and spend all this time trying to understand,” he added. “Give them literally 30 seconds of your time. They’ve been looking for an opportunity to talk about their trade, what they’re passionate about, legally, for years. Like a sommelier loves to talk about wine, they love to talk about cannabis.”

A staff member will walk you into the expansive connecting lounge. Sofa and table seating have a view of a Starbucks across the driveway and The Westin Chicago North Shore hotel rising high above the parking lot.“You may want to smoke in a bowl or a bubbler or a bong,” Weiner said. “We have all those different options.”“We have some very expensive and very cool vapes and other smoking devices,” he added.

When I tried Mindy’s cannabis chocolate bars at home, a half piece of the exquisite dark almond toffee didn’t hit me until 90 minutes later, as the Mindy’s Edibles website warns. A mild buzz felt similar to a few sips of wine. The chocolate itself was a lovely chef’s reimagining of a Cadbury Caramello, with crisp dark chocolate around a silky caramel filling.

You can have the nonalcoholic Nutty Passion or Mr. Nice Guy drinks with an optional Flora Delta 8 infusion. The pistachio flavor of the former is a fan favorite, but I might pass on the benign delta-8 next time. You should probably skip the sliders, which were regrettably dry. They run some through their high-pressure dishwasher, Weiner said, but others can’t be machine-washed.

“There’s also one other element to it,” he added, with the lounge in the same building as the family-friendly West Town Bakery. “We definitely don’t want people to smell cannabis if they’re not in the consumption lounge.”

 

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