The Top 100 Places to Eat and Drink Near Passion House Coffee
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Rank 2. Alinea
Creative
Grant Achatz orchestrates dinner as theater—vapor drifts across the table, hidden flavors emerge from diminutive courses, and tableside pyrotechnics render the plate obsolete. The evening oscillates between whimsy and precision, each course a small rupture in expectation, culminating in dessert painted directly onto bare wood.
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Rank 3. Boka
Modern New American
Lee Wolen's dining room—all banquettes, mirrored fixtures, quiet confidence—sustains its reputation through unwavering technique and seasonal rigor. Hokkaido scallops arrive with green garlic purée and aerated sabayon; house-made ricotta gnocchetti swims in cream beneath crispy chicken skin. A restaurant that has earned its steadiness.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Chef · Lee Wolen
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Rank 4. Azul
Pan Mexican
On a stark industrial block, Azul materializes as a glowing corner refuge of aqua chairs, street murals, and attentive servers. Pan-Mexican cooking—whole grilled pineapple stuffed with octopus, smoky seafood paella—arrives balanced and visually assured, rewarding the journey inward.
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Rank 5. Milly’s Pizza In The Pan
Pan-style Pizza
- Time Out Chicago Pie · The 18 best pizzas in the world right now
- The Infatuation #23 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Chicago
- The Banchets 2025 · Nominee · Best Pizza
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Rank 6. Kasama
Filipino
Tim Flores and Genie Kwon cook Filipino food with striking originality in a spare room, each dish—mussel adobo, shrimp-paste peanut sauce—arriving as both homage and reinvention. The desserts, particularly a corn semifreddo that riffs on mais con yelo, are equally inventive, suggesting a kitchen where tradition and technique speak the same language.
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- 50 Best 2025 · #31 · North America's 50 Best Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurant
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Rank 8. Schwa
Contemporary
No servers, rap at full volume, and a kitchen that treats classical technique like a toy to dismantle—Schwa remains defiantly itself. A single tasting might pivot from chilled gumbo with blue crab crisps to foie gras ice cream in a cinnamon shell to quail dusted in jerk spice. The cooking is deliberately provocative, sometimes brilliant, always refusing to apologize.
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Rank 9. Ever
Creative
On a hushed corner of Fulton Market, Curtis Duffy orchestrates an austere dining room where every element—light, spacing, plating—answers to a larger vision. The food arrives as disciplined architecture: technically assured, visually composed, each plate a study in structure and restraint.
- AAA Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Fine Dining Experience
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Rank 10. Jeong
Korean
Dave Park and Jen Tran have built something rare here: a tasting menu that treats Korean flavors with the precision of haute cuisine without irony or apology. A disk of salmon tartare arrives under doenjang yuzu gastrique and crisp rice crackers; octopus swims in peach sauce alongside kimchi. The room is sleek and intimate, the cooking inventive and exact.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Time Out #6 · The 25 best restaurants in Chicago
- The Banchets 2025 · Nominee · Best Hospitality
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- 50 Best 2025 · One to Watch Award
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Bar Team – U.S. Central
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. Central
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Rank 13. Pizz’amici
Tavern-Style Pizza
- Esquire 2025 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- The Infatuation 2025 · #10 · The Top-Rated New Restaurants
- The Infatuation 2025 · #1 · Chicago’s Best New Restaurants
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- US Coffee Championships 2025 · #1 · U.S. Coffee Roasters Championship · Diego Guartan
- Time Out The 40 best coffee shops in Chicago
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- Eater Chicago’s Best Coffee Shops
- Time Out The 40 best coffee shops in Chicago
- The Infatuation The Best Coffee Shops & Cafes In Chicago
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Rank 16. Brasero
South American
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program
- Wine Enthusiast 2024 · Forward 50 Restaurants
- Time Out #23 · The 25 best restaurants in Chicago
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In a converted coach house on Division, Zubair Mohajir distills his childhood across India and the Middle East into tasting menus that layer pickling and fermentation through South and Southeast Asian cuisines. A sweet potato pavé under molaga podi rub, dumplings glossed with beet butter and mushrooms, ube jalebi swimming in saffron—each plate announces a cook fully arrived at his ambition.
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Emerging Chef · Zubair Mohajir
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Chicago
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Rank 18. Smyth
Contemporary
The open kitchen at this chic West Loop tasting room showcases Shields and Urie-Shields' boundary-pushing approach to seasonal produce, some grown on-site. A kelp tart with pea butter and trout roe, or foie gras doughnuts with crab, exemplify their restless creativity.
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Rank 19. Ina Mae
Southern
A sprawling New Orleans tavern anchors a corner of Wicker Park with a three-deep bar and the restless energy of a place that knows what it does. The gumbo and po'boys arrive honest and sturdy, but it's the Nashville fried chicken—a staff obsession—that reveals the kitchen's true ambition.
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Mark Domitrovich, Brian Jupiter, and Aaron Torricelli - Pioneer Tavern Group
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 21. Kumiko
Japanese Cocktail Bar
Julia Momosé's dining bar pairs an exceptional Japanese spirits collection with sharp-uniformed servers who radiate genuine warmth across a room designed for lingering. The kitchen matches that precision—butter cabbage with ramp miso and katsuobushi, grilled Arctic char in shio koji beurre blanc—each plate calibrated as carefully as the cocktails beside it.
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Rank 22. Lilac Tiger
Cocktail Bar
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – U.S. Central
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Chicago
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Rank 23. Oriole
French-Japanese New American
A former warehouse accessed by freight elevator, Oriole channels restrained elegance through its open kitchen and striking ceiling collage. Chef Noah Sandoval's French-Japanese tasting menu demonstrates disciplined technique, with black truffle capellini and foie gras canapés executed with quiet precision.
- AAA Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- The Infatuation Infatuation’s Highest-Rated Restaurants In America
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Rank 24. Feld
Contemporary
Chef Jacob Potashnick orchestrates a produce-focused tasting in Ukrainian Village's open kitchen, drawing ingredients from within four hours of Chicago and coaxing them through multiple preparations—raw asparagus, tempura, juice. A single vegetable becomes the evening's argument, whether maitake mushroom across textures or sour cherries from the backyard trees.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Bon Appétit 2025 · America's Best New Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Best Chef: Great Lakes · Jacob Potashnick
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Rank 25. Mott St.
Fusion
Chef Edward Kim crisscrosses global flavors with Midwestern restraint, as in wok-fried cauliflower that crackles with Szechuan heat and tangy chili. The cooking avoids novelty for its own sake, letting crispy textures and pungent garlic speak for themselves.
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Rank 26. Next
Contemporary
Each season brings a new culinary theme—ancient Rome, Hollywood, fin-de-siècle Paris—executed with technical precision and theatrical flair. The tasting menu pivots entirely every few months, making repeat visits feel like discovering a different restaurant.
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Rank 28. Obélix
French
Duck and foie gras anchor a menu of French classics made entirely in-house—from pâté en croûte to squab pithiviers—executed with a clarity that belies the kitchen's ambition. The sun-soaked River North room hums with the contentment of guests who finish with house-made ice creams and warm pastries, as if restraint were never an option.
- James Beard Awards 2023 · Nominee · Best New Restaurant
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker · Courtney Kenyon-Snider
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Nicolas Poilevey and Oliver Poilevey
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Rank 29. Bisous
Parisian
- 50 Best 2026 · #30 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Esquire 2024 · The Best Bars in America
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Top 10 U.S. Nominee · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar
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Rank 31. Valhalla
Contemporary
Chef Stephen Gillanders holds court at a dark Wicker Park counter, sending out a globe-trotting tasting menu that pivots between Filipino, Mexican, Chinese, and Indian without apology—lobster tsukune with smoked pimentón butter lands next to white curry noodles. Dessert pavlovas and a beverage program of real thoughtfulness suggest a kitchen that plays seriously.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The Infatuation #16 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Chicago
- The Banchets 2025 · Winner · Sommelier of the Year · Jelena Prodan
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Rank 32. Asador Bastian
Basque-inspired Steakhouse
Asador Bastian applies Basque grilling discipline to dry-aged beef cooked over charcoal with deliberate restraint, avoiding performance for precision. Set in a 1883 building, the restaurant prioritizes selection and control over volume, anchored by a working open kitchen.
- World's 101 Best #15 · World's Best Steak Restaurants
- Esquire 2025 · Dirty Dirty · The Best Martinis in America
- Esquire 2023 · The Best New Restaurants in America
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Rank 33. Alegrias Seafood
Mexican Seafood
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- Time Out The 40 best coffee shops in Chicago
- The Infatuation The Best Coffee Shops & Cafes In Chicago
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Rank 35. Doma
Croatian
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Rank 36. Provaré
Italian
A narrow room of weathered wood and bright paint, where Chef Jourdan Higgs marries his Creole heritage with his Sicilian grandfather's tradition. Crisp calamari stuffed with jalapeños, cognac-laced shrimp over trenette, crabby fries arranged for sharing—the cooking crackles with heat and swagger, soundtrack perfectly calibrated to match.
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Rank 37. Maxwells Trading
Contemporary
A converted warehouse in West Loop fills nightly with the sound of conversation ricocheting off black-framed windows and an almost endless bar, its kitchen playing confidently with Japanese, Chinese, and Thai influences across dishes like soup dumpling tortellini and turbot with kombu beurre blanc. The rooftop garden feeds the plates; the bartenders fuel the momentum.
- Esquire 2024 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Great Lakes · Christopher Jung and Erling Wu-Bower
- Wine Enthusiast 2025 · Top 50 New Restaurants
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Rank 38. Cafe Central
Puerto Rican Caribbean
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Rank 39. Rose Mary
Croatian Eastern European
Chef Joe Flamm's Rose Mary channels the rustic warmth of Croatian konobas through whitewashed walls and hanging plants in West Fulton Market. Charcoal-fired lamb and delicate rosewater fritule anchor a menu drawing from the Adriatic with assured restraint.
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Frank Callero, Joe Flamm, and Steven Zaleski - Day Off Group
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – U.S. Central
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 40. Inner Town Pub
Chicago
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Rank 42. Sharpies
Detroit-Style Pizza
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Rank 43. il Carciofo
Roman Italian
- Condé Nast Traveler 2024 · The best new restaurants in the world
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Frank Callero, Joe Flamm, and Steven Zaleski - Day Off Group
- The Infatuation 2025 · #10 · Chicago’s Best New Restaurants
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Rank 45. perilla
Korean
A mural of Michelle Obama in hanbok presides over a urbane room where Chef Andrew Lim riffs on Korean classics with Wagyu tartare and fire chicken spiked with Chihuahua cheese. The semi-open kitchen and street-facing windows catch the city's pulse, while a curated tea menu substitutes for dessert with quiet intention.
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
- The Banchets 2025 · Nominee · Best Design
- The Infatuation 2024 · Chicago’s Best New Restaurants
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Rank 46. Elina's
American Italian
Elina's channels mid-century Italian-American romance through handsome wood and leather, where Chef Ian Rusnak and Eric Safin execute nostalgic classics like clams casino and rigatoni vodka with unexpected finesse. Sinatra plays softly while a stellar bread basket sets the tone for dishes that feel both familiar and carefully considered.
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Rank 47. Indienne
Modern Indian
Chef Sujan Sarkar's progressive vision of Indian cuisine arrives plated like gallery pieces in a River North warehouse: pani puris and curries refined with French restraint, each course deftly spiced and theatrically composed. The room itself—soaring beams above rose-pink booths—suggests ambition without pretense, a setting where familiar flavors taste like discovery.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- Bon Appétit 2023 · America's Best New Restaurants
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Best Chef: Great Lakes · Sujan Sarkar
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Rank 48. Swift & Sons
Steakhouse
A converted 1920s meat warehouse on Fulton Market, now a plush steakhouse where soaring wood arches and concrete columns frame tables suited for serious eating. Prime beef arrives seared hard and flanked by three sauces, while the wine list obliges small pours and the sides—king crab, Boston cream pie—suggest no one here counts calories.
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- Time Out The best bakeries in America
- The Banchets 2025 · Nominee · Pastry Chef of the Year · Bo Durham
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Rank 50. John’s Food and Wine
Modern New American
White brick and a long banquette set the scene at this counter-service neighborhood spot where diners order before sitting. The kitchen sends out country ham with fried sunchokes, lobster salad with leek aioli, dry-aged steaks with potato pavé—each plate arriving with the confidence of a place that knows what it's doing. Beef fat fries alone justify a return.
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Time Out #13 · The 25 best restaurants in Chicago
- The Banchets 2025 · Nominee · Best New Restaurant
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Rank 51. Coalfire Pizza
Coal-fired Pizza
The open kitchen and coal-fired oven dominate a cozy room where tomato cans double as pizza stands, turning the dining space into theater. Thin, blistered crusts arrive nearly blackened, their restraint a virtue—mortadella with garlic sings, though the menu invites casual reinvention.
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Rank 52. Club Lucky
Traditional Italian
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- Time Out #20 · The 25 best restaurants in Chicago
- The Banchets 2025 · Nominee · Rising Chef · John Dahlstrom
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Rank 54. Galit
Modern Middle Eastern
Inside a modest storefront, Zach Engel's modern Middle Eastern cooking unfolds through a prix-fixe of diners' choosing, opening with creamy hummus, warm pita, and pickles that establish the evening's warmth. The falafel carries unexpected brightness, wines from the Levantine region flow with purpose, and the whole operation hums with genuine hospitality.
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Rank 56. The Perch
American
A whitewashed storefront gives way to an industrial dining room lined with steel brewing vats—the real draw here. The kitchen turns out filet sliders with blue cheese and caramelized onions, grilled fish sandwiches with house-made remoulade, and a carrot cake that lands soft and generous on the plate. Beer is taken seriously enough that tastings guide your order.
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Rank 57. Elske
Contemporary
The Posey's airy dining room and garden patio set a calm stage for cooking that honors ingredients with Danish-inflected restraint. Duck liver tart with salted ramp, composed vegetable plates, and gently handled proteins move across the season; desserts—shaped by Anna Posey's visual arts background—balance considered composition with simplicity. A thoughtful wine and juice program follows.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Outstanding Pastry Chef or Baker · Anna Posey
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Wine and Other Beverages Program
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Rank 58. Maple & Ash
Steakhouse
A wood-fired steakhouse that doubles as a scene: leather banquettes, a photo booth, and a semi-open kitchen where dry-aged beef and whole octopus emerge burnished from the flames. The seafood tower arrives tableside, lobster tail and king crab glistening in garlic butter and chili oil, but it's the theatre—the music, the glow—that makes you want to stay.
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Top 10 U.S. Nominee · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – U.S. Central
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Rank 60. Mirra
Fusion
Mirca's kitchen splices Indian and Mexican vocabularies with unguarded confidence, sending out dum biryani with lamb barbacoa and scallop ceviche in crispy fenugreek roti alongside housemade achar and salsa tatemado that taste like they belong together. A young crowd packed elbow-to-elbow under exposed brick and ambient noise confirms what the food already knows: restraint has no place here.
- Esquire 2025 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- Midwest Living 2025 · Best of the Midwest
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Great Lakes · Rishi Kumar and Zubair Mohajir
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Rank 61. Sepia
New American
A former print shop on Jefferson Street holds a dining room where exposed brick and floor-to-ceiling wine racks frame Chef Andrew Zimmerman's restless intelligence. His brioche with black truffle and leek velouté, his sablefish with barbecue spice and smoked apple, suggest a cook equally at home in Southeast Asia, Korea, and the American South.
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Rank 62. Momotaro
Modern Japanese
Momotaro channels mid-century Japanese fantasy through multiple kitchens, with Gene Kato's grilled jidori kimo and robata beef tsukune earning their reputation. A whiskey list displayed on a departure board and severely rationed uni nigiri reward those who plan ahead.
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Rank 63. Creepies
French
Stone and wood walls hold art above black-and-white tile, where David and Anna Posey's bistro unfolds with French discipline and Midwestern warmth. A halibut arrives with sauce homard and dumplings; a gnocchi swims in gruyere and egg yolk—restrained cooking that asks nothing more of itself than clarity.
- Esquire 2025 · Vesper · The Best Martinis in America
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The Infatuation 2025 · #9 · Chicago’s Best New Restaurants
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- James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Best New Bar
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best New U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. Central
- Eater Best New Bar
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Rank 65. Bordel
Parisian Cocktail Bar
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- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. Central
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Hotel Bar – U.S. Central
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Bar Team – U.S. Central
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Rank 67. Queen Mary
British-Inspired Cocktail Bar
- 50 Best 2026 · #80 · North America's 50 Best Bars
- Esquire 2023 · Market Price Martini · The Best Martinis in America
- Esquire 2024 · Martini Service · The Best Martinis in America
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Rank 69. Taqueria Chingón
Mexican
A West Loop taqueria modeled on Mexico City street stalls, where al pastor and duck carnitas with date puree compete with bolder moves—blood sausage with salsa macha, crispy artichoke with tapenade. Everything lands on freshly griddled corn tortillas under a covered patio that buzzes with the rhythm of a place that knows what it's doing.
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Nicolas Poilevey and Oliver Poilevey
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
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Rank 72. Piece Brewery & Pizzeria
New Haven-Style Pizza
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Rank 73. Black Dog Gelato
Northern-Style
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Rank 74. Mako
Japanese
An unmarked storefront on West Lake houses B.K. Park's intimate omakase counter, where twenty-two seats face a team working with sudachi, sesame-pepper soy, and burnt scallion ponzu to remake each piece. The evening unfolds through sushi and braced abalone with equal care, finishing in whiskey caramel and the specific pleasure of being fully seen by the kitchen.
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Rank 75. Topolobampo
Mexican
Rick Bayless's Mexican fine dining showcases seasonal, tradition-rooted dishes with unexpected flourishes, from memela divorciada to salmon in pipian sauce. The agave-focused beverage pairings elevate each course with studied care.
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Rank 77. Avec River North
Midwestern Mediterranean
- World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Mediterranean Cuisine Restaurant
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Chicago Right Now
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Rank 78. Shanghai Terrace
Chinese
- AAA Four Diamonds
- Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Four Star
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Chicago Right Now
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Rank 79. Brindille
French
- AAA Four Diamonds
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Chicago Right Now
- The Banchets 2025 · Nominee · Best Hospitality
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Rank 80. Sifr
Wood-Fired Middle Eastern
In a sun-filled River North corner, Sifr builds meals around its hummus—a charred and crispy affair layered with zhoug and za'atar—and wood-fired proteins like spiced chicken shish taouk and halloumi with pomegranate molasses. The kitchen, from the team behind Indienne, treats sharing as a suggestion rather than a rule. House-made ice creams close things out with understated grace.
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Rank 81. The Loyalist
French
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – U.S. Central
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Chicago Right Now
- Time Out #18 · The 25 best restaurants in Chicago
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Rank 82. Dorian's
Italian-ish
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- VinePair 2025 · Food & Beverage Program of the Year · The Next Wave Awards
- The Pinnacle Guide 2026 · 1 Pin
- 50 Best 2026 · #27 · North America's 50 Best Bars
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Rank 87. Chef's Table at Astor Club
Contemporary New American
Ten diners share a nightly tasting menu in Chef Trevor Teich's intimate Gold Coast dining room, where oysters arrive topped with champagne foam and lobster is finished tableside with vin jaune beurre blanc. The Astor Club's private setting and luxe ingredients create an air of exclusive refinement without pretension.
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Rank 89. Monteverde
Italian
The pasta station anchors this narrow room where Chef Sarah Grueneberg executes the fundamentals of cucina tipica with quiet precision. Cabbage leaves give way to cacio e pepe made luminous with whey, each strand of al dente pasta coated in Pecorino and cracked pepper—the kind of cooking that fills the counter by early evening.
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Nominee · Emerging Chef · Bailey Sullivan
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- The Infatuation #7 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Chicago
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Rank 90. Nadu
Regional Indian
Chef Sujan Sarkar's Nadu serves contemporary regional Indian cuisine designed for sharing, with meen gassi—walleye in coconut and tamarind curry—standing out as a richly spiced centerpiece. The warm, upbeat dining room welcomes walk-ins at the bar, though reservations help secure a table for the vegetable moilee and other dishes meant for the whole table.
- James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Best New Restaurant
- Eater 2025 · The Best New Restaurants in America
- Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand
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Rank 92. Gavroche
Modern French
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- Eater Chicago’s Best Coffee Shops
- The Infatuation The Best Coffee Shops & Cafes In Chicago
- Time Out The 40 best coffee shops in Chicago
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Rank 96. Three Dots and a Dash
Tropical
- Spirited Awards 2026 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Bar Team – U.S. Central
- Spirited Awards 2024 · Regional Honoree · Best U.S. Bar Team – U.S. Central
- Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Cocktail Bar – U.S. Central
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Rank 97. J.P. Graziano
Italian
- The Infatuation #10 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Chicago
- The Banchets 2025 · Nominee · Best Counter Service
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Rank 98. avec
Mediterranean
Warm wood lines every surface of this twenty-year-old counter restaurant on West Randolph, where a Mediterranean kitchen turns seasonal ingredients into boldly dressed plates—roasted asparagus with za'atar buttermilk, chickpea hummus studded with oysters mushrooms—each one crowned in herbs and crunchy garnish. The effect is unfussy abundance.
- Wine Enthusiast 2023 · Forward 50 Restaurants
- The Banchets 2025 · Winner · Restuarant of the Year
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
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Rank 100. Esmé
Contemporary
Chef Jenner Tomaska's minimal gallery-like space treats each course as art, with flavorful compositions like Dover sole in vin jaune sauce served on custom ceramics by local makers. The high-concept tasting blurs dining and visual experience without sacrificing the precision of dishes like goat cheese ice cream with yuzu and cured egg yolk.
- Michelin Guide 1 Star
- James Beard Awards 2024 · Nominee · Best Chef: Great Lakes · Jenner Tomaska
- Eater The 38 Essential Restaurants in Chicago