According to The Hop Review, “For many Chicagoans familiar with the city’s indie arts and culture scene, indie publication scene, bar and dining scene, craft beer scene—or just the neighborhood of Bridgeport in general—it’s likely they’ve heard of Ed Marszewski. Simply put, the co-founder of Marz Community Brewing Co. has his hand in a lot of projects, and to name them all would take its own feature…”

Marz Community Brewing Co., an Upswell Community Dinner site, is “where everyone gets together—the beer nerds, weirdos, cholos, your uncle Steve and friends we’ve yet to meet.” Marz is located on Chicago’s South Side in Bridgeport, among the city’s most diverse neighborhoods—with a thriving art community, a wide variety of restaurant offerings, and an “adjacency” claim as home of the Chicago White Sox, among Major League Baseball’s oldest franchises.

According to their website, “We created Marz as a platform for ongoing experimental collaboration—in the beers we were brewing and with the culture of the city as well.”

Ed Marszewski became a craft beer maker and entrepreneur after years of pursuing various creative endeavors. The Marz Community Taproom and Kitchen is the latest of his family’s Chicagoland endeavors—which also include Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar (named for his mom) and Kimski (a Polish-Korean restaurant named in recognition of the heritage of Ed and his brother Mike).

For Ed, community is always top of mind, apparent in his oft-proclaimed tagline, “Community is the future.”

“We feel that by contributing more manufacturing and hospitality gigs in the hood that we can help build a better quality of life for those of us that live and work here in the city,” Marszewski has written. “We also want to give people another reason to come to our part of the city.”

Sign up for this Community Dinner and find out how the Marz team combines their love of craft beer with their desire to make Chicago and the community of Bridgeport better places to live, work, and play.

You’ll hear about their support for a number of nonprofits, along with a wide range of cultural and social advocacy efforts to build a better world for their employees, customers, and neighbors. And all the while you’ll enjoy a menu of smoked baby back ribs, tandoori chicken skewers, vegetarian BBQ sliders, BBQ pulled pork, dill and garlic mashed potatoes, and Rooibos Tea deviled eggs.

Upswell Community Dinners take you into Chicago’s vibrant neighborhoods to eat like a local, get a sense of what life is like in the community, and experience firsthand how bonding over food and mission might lead to new friends and innovative solutions. To sign up for this Community Dinner, just select Marz Community Brewing Co. when you register for Upswell.