The Best Seafood in Chicago

Cushioned chairs and walls hung with paintings and photographs give this South Loop seafood spot the feel of a 1930s Hollywood supper club, which is either kitsch or genius depending on your mood. The kitchen keeps things tighter than the decor suggests, letting quality ingredients carry seafood dishes with global influences. The Michelin Guide has it listed, and Artful Living named it one of the five most stylish restaurants in the country.

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2. The Banchets Nominee · Best New Restaurant
3. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Mariscos San Pedro is a lively Pilsen seafood restaurant on the ground floor of Thalia Hall, doing Mexican mariscos with more imagination than the genre usually gets. The dining rooms are all colorful tile and cartoonish illustrations, and the bar handles anyone killing time before a show upstairs. It's a sit-down dinner, mid-priced, and the Eater-crowned shrimp gobernador taco is the one people mention.

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3. Time Out #15 · The 25 best restaurants in Chicago

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White linen on dark polished wood, a mounted swordfish on the wall, and a bar that fills up fast, Hugo's is a big, old-school Chicago seafood house that has never felt the need to be subtle about any of it. Stone crab claws, oysters, crab cakes, frog's legs, and a few steaks for the holdouts keep things honest. The family-style sides arrive in quantities that assume you came hungry, and the Muddy Bottom Pie requires friends.

1. AAA Three Diamonds
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. AAA Four Diamonds

Tanta is a big, lively Peruvian restaurant in River North, where the menu treats Peru's Chinese, Japanese, Italian, and Spanish influences like a family reunion that went well. That means pork fried rice crowned with a shrimp omelet, and nigiri topped with wagyu and a quail egg, so sushi and steak finally stop pretending they don't know each other. Happy hour pulls in regulars with $10 drinks and similarly gentle food prices.

1. AAA Three Diamonds
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1. AAA Three Diamonds

1. AAA Three Diamonds

1. AAA Three Diamonds

1. AAA Three Diamonds

1. AAA Approved

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