The Best Places to Eat in Chicago, by the Record

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2. Time Out The 40 best coffee shops in Chicago

1. The Infatuation The Best Coffee Shops & Cafes In Chicago
2. Time Out The 40 best coffee shops in Chicago

1. The Infatuation The Best Coffee Shops & Cafes In Chicago
2. Time Out The 40 best coffee shops in Chicago

1. Time Out The 40 best coffee shops in Chicago
2. The Infatuation The Best Coffee Shops & Cafes In Chicago

1. Eater Chicago’s Best Coffee Shops
2. The Infatuation The Best Coffee Shops & Cafes In Chicago

1. Eater Chicago’s Best Coffee Shops
2. Time Out The 40 best coffee shops in Chicago

1. Eater Chicago’s Best Coffee Shops
2. Time Out The 40 best coffee shops in Chicago

1. Eater Chicago’s Best Coffee Shops
2. The Infatuation The Best Coffee Shops & Cafes In Chicago

1. Eater Chicago’s Best Coffee Shops
2. The Infatuation The Best Coffee Shops & Cafes In Chicago

1. James Beard Awards 2022 · Nominee · Outstanding Restaurant
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1. The Infatuation The Best Coffee Shops & Cafes In Chicago
2. Time Out The 40 best coffee shops in Chicago

1. Time Out The 40 best coffee shops in Chicago
2. The Infatuation The Best Coffee Shops & Cafes In Chicago

1. Eater Chicago’s Best Coffee Shops
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1. Time Out #9 · The 25 best restaurants in Chicago
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1. The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Chicago Right Now
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1. The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Chicago Right Now
2. Eater The Best Places to Eat in Suburban Chicago

1. The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Chicago Right Now
2. Eater The Best Places to Eat in Suburban Chicago

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1. The Banchets Winner · Sommelier of the Year · Jelena Prodan
2. The Banchets Nominee · Chef of the Year · Stephen Gillanders

1. US Coffee Championships #1 · U.S. Coffee Roasters Championship · Diego Guartan

1. US Coffee Championships #1 · U.S. Coffee Roasters Championship · Diego Guartan

1. US Coffee Championships #1 · U.S. Coffee Roasters Championship · Diego Guartan

1. US Coffee Championships #1 · U.S. Coffee Roasters Championship · Diego Guartan

1. US Coffee Championships #1 · U.S. Coffee Roasters Championship · Diego Guartan

1. AAA Four Diamonds

A renovated meat and produce warehouse in Fulton Market, now a grand steakhouse where sweeping wood-trimmed arches and polished brass make the room feel like an occasion before the food arrives. USDA Prime beef hits a high-heat broiler and comes with a trio of sauces; Australian and Japanese Wagyu round out the beef program. The Boka Restaurant Group runs it with the kind of quiet polish that makes a large room feel effortless.

1. World's 101 Best #73 · World's Best Steak Restaurants
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. AAA Four Diamonds

A sunny corner spot in Logan Square where the kitchen skips the tweezers and the fancy glassware in favor of food that tastes like itself. Cellar Door Provisions is a casual, Mediterranean-leaning restaurant with the kind of unfussy cooking that makes you wonder why anyone bothers with the other kind. The Michelin Guide gave it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks. Counter seats, date nights, and wandering-in-off-the-street all work equally well here.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

The U-shaped bar and oceanic color scheme set the mood before you've ordered a drink. Chef's Special is a cocktail bar and Chinese-American kitchen in Logan Square doing crab rangoon and shrimp chips without a hint of irony, which is exactly the point. The dan dan noodles and the bone-in pork shank with black bean sauce pull serious weight. The Michelin Guide awarded it a Bib Gourmand, and the room is loud and happy enough that nobody's surprised.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

A basement small-plates spot on Broadway, Chilam Balam holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand and a rotating menu of modern Mexican shared plates that changes often enough to keep regulars guessing. The kitchen has a knack for pairing unexpected ingredients without it ever reading as a stunt. Waits can run long, but the staff will talk you through the menu until you feel like a regular, which helps.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

Checkered tablecloths and red-sauce ambition fill this cozy Italian-American fine dining spot in River North, where the Hogsalt group went full throwback and meant it. Pastas are made in-house, portions are unapologetically generous, and the tiramisu is heavier on the booze than most places would dare. The Michelin Guide gave it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks for a room this loud with this much garlic in the air.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

The name translates to "eat rice," which turns out to be solid advice. This casual Northern Thai spot on Cermak runs BYOB, with graffiti-style signage, colorful murals, and hip-hop keeping the room from taking itself too seriously. The menu is short, the flavors run hard at spicy, salty, sour, and sweet all at once, and the Michelin Bib Gourmand means the math works in your favor. Bring friends and a cooler.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

Studded leather banquettes and low, nostalgic lighting set the tone at this moody River North gastrobar, where the front bar runs cocktails at a steady clip and the kitchen leans into big plates and bolder flavors. Fried chicken with a proper crust, beef cheek pot pie with bone marrow gravy, a carrot cake you'll talk yourself into ordering despite having no room: the Michelin Bib Gourmand crowd knows what it's doing here.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

The menu is organized by ingredient rather than course, with an entire section devoted to goat, which tells you everything about the kitchen's sense of humor and ambition. This lively New American restaurant on Randolph Street fills every night with groups working through shareable plates in a warm, beamed room full of dim corners and elevated platforms. A Michelin Bib Gourmand spot where the flavors are direct and the portions, upon request, flexible.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

A curing chamber visible from the dining room sets the tone at this all-day salumeria in Logan Square, where the pig cutout over the door is not subtle and not meant to be. The Michelin Bib Gourmand spot runs charcuterie boards and deli sandwiches by day, then pivots to steak frites and duck confit on weekend evenings. Honeycomb tile floors and old wood joists give the room an unhurried, old-world feel.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

The whiskey list at this Logan Square gastropub runs long enough to suggest the bar is the main event, and the dim wood-paneled room backs that theory up. Then the kitchen, tucked into a corner, starts sending out terrines and sweetbreads and omelets folded with brie that quietly reframe the whole situation. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the kind of neighborhood place where people wander in at breakfast and somehow stay for dinner.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

Edward Kim's Bucktown restaurant plays Midwest and Chinese off each other in ways that feel neither forced nor fussy. It's a casual, feast-style spot where the menu roams freely and the cooking has enough personality to pull it off. The Michelin Guide gives it a Bib Gourmand, which tracks for a place where the food is ambitious but the vibe stays loose. Go with a group and order widely.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

Roman-style pizza cooked in electric deck ovens is the whole idea at this Andersonville neighborhood pizzeria, and the pies come out oblong, puffy, and blistered with a bubble-like crunch. The kitchen makes all its pasta in-house too, so this is more than a one-trick spot. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the unfussy room fills up fast with people who figured that out early.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

A Bridgeport pub that takes the British meat pie seriously enough to earn a Michelin Bib Gourmand, without a single tea cozy in sight. The room runs marble tables and handmade pottery, and the crowd arrives for flaky, butter-crusted pies filled with things like steak and ale alongside minty peas and mash. The menu wanders into rarebit mac and cheese and a pub burger that pulls its weight. Fish and chips land on Fridays.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. The Banchets Winner · Best Counter Service

The hummus arrives looking like a still life, crowned with charred and crispy chickpeas, zhoug, and za'atar, and the table hasn't even filled up yet. This wood-fired Middle Eastern restaurant in River North comes from the team behind Indienne, and earns a Michelin Bib Gourmand by loading the table with dips, small plates, and things fresh off the grill. The menu is built for sharing, though everyone will test that theory over the last scoop of house-made ice cream.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

Glass doors open into a bright, modern dining room on Belmont, fitted with a leather banquette and planters that look suspiciously well-tended. Sochi is a modern Vietnamese restaurant where the menu leans into careful sourcing and pho built on long-simmered bone broth. The Michelin Bib Gourmand crowd skews local and unhurried, the kind who know to save room for the cassava cake when it appears on the dessert card.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

Walls painted in tropical pinks, blues, and oranges set the tone at this traditional Mexican restaurant on Cicero, where Dia de los Muertos artifacts share space with live mariachi. The mole manchamanteles, whose name translates to "tablecloth stainer," earns the warning: mahogany-dark, nutty, and rich enough to demand every freshly made tortilla on the table. A Michelin Bib Gourmand, and the kind of place that makes you wonder what you've been doing at lesser spots.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. The Banchets Winner · Best Heritage Restaurant

The name is lifted from a German fable, which tells you something about what you're in for. This Logan Square neighborhood restaurant does Alpine cooking in a rustic inn setting, with communal tables, an inviting bar, and a charcuterie selection long enough to be its own evening. The kitchen has a playful streak that runs all the way through to pretzel ice cream with jalapeño caramel. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

A restored coach house on Division Street sets the scene for one of Chicago's more quietly ambitious tasting menus, where the kitchen pulls from South and Southeast Asia through a lens shaped by India, the Middle East, and a detour through finance. Pickling and fermentation run through the menu like a through-line, and desserts tend toward the joyfully unruly. The chef earned a James Beard Emerging Chef semifinalist nod in 2024.

1. James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Emerging Chef · Zubair Mohajir
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Edison bulbs, dark wood, and long high tops set the tone at this gastropub in Logan Square, where the same team behind next-door Lardon turned their attention to dinner. The menu leans comfort without losing its nerve, running from fried cheese curds to shawarma-spiced chicken with flatbread. Craft beer gets serious treatment, with a locally sourced lineup. It holds a Michelin Bib Gourmand, and every table seems to have at least one cheeseburger on it.

1. Michelin Guide Bib Gourmand

1. The Banchets Nominee · Sommelier of the Year · Patti Robison

1. The Banchets Nominee · Best Design

1. The Banchets Nominee · Restuarant of the Year

A long, slow ferment gives the NY-style crust at this Montrose Avenue slice shop a chew and crispness that makes the whole thing feel intentional rather than accidental. Jimmy's also does a square pan style for those who prefer their dough a little softer inside. 50 Top Pizza ranked it among the top slice shops in the country. Order a pepperoni, grab a seat, and try not to already be thinking about the next slice.

1. 50 Top Pizza #13 · 50 Top Pizza Slice USA
2. Eater Chicago’s Best Pizza

1. The Banchets Culinary Excellence of the Year · Roland Licioni

1. The Banchets Nominee · Best Counter Service

1. The Banchets Nominee · Best Pizza

1. Forbes Travel Guide Forbes Recommended

1. The Banchets Nominee · Best Heritage Restaurant

1. The Banchets Nominee · Best Heritage Restaurant

1. Eater The Best New Restaurants in America
2. The New York Times The Restaurant List
3. The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Chicago Right Now

1. Spirited Awards 2025 · Regional Top 10 Honoree · Best U.S. Restaurant Bar – U.S. Central

1. James Beard Awards 2022 · Nominee · Outstanding Baker · Maya-Camille Broussard

1. World Culinary Awards 2025 · Nominee · North America's Best Mediterranean Cuisine Restaurant
2. The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Chicago Right Now

The checkered tile floors and art-lined stone walls make it look like a Parisian bistro that wandered into the West Loop and decided to stay. Creepies is a neighborhood French restaurant from the team behind Elske next door, with a concise menu that leans classic and slides Midwestern where it can. The vesper martini landed on Esquire's list of the best in the country, which is not nothing for a place called Creepies.

1. Esquire Vesper · The Best Martinis in America
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
3. The Infatuation #9 · Chicago’s Best New Restaurants

Crystal pendants, hand-painted tile floors, and an amber sculpture drifting overhead set the tone at this West Loop Italian from the Boka Restaurant Group. The menu moves through freshly made pasta, puffy-edged pizzas, and a confident roasted half chicken, with a long stone bar doing brisk sandwich work at lunch. It's the kind of room where you can linger over a bottle or be in and out in forty minutes, and the staff reads the difference without being asked.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The wood-burning oven does most of the talking at this upscale Greek taverna just off Logan Square Park, kissing nearly everything on the menu with smoke. Warm pita arrives with a lineup of dips, lamb chops come in serious portions, and the baklava froyo with pistachio sauce is the kind of thing you didn't see coming. The wine list runs entirely Greek, from Macedonia to Santorini, which takes a certain confidence.

1. Esquire #29 · The Best New Restaurants in America
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Murals by street artist Senkoe climb the walls of this lively Pan-Mexican restaurant on a corner that the surrounding industrial stretch does nothing to prepare you for. Aqua-blue chairs, cement floors, and a DJ booth set the tone before the food arrives. The menu roams Mexico freely, and the kitchen has a flair for the dramatic. A whole grilled pineapple stuffed with octopus and Chihuahua cheese makes the point pretty quickly.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A tasting menu format in a cozy Ravenswood dining room where Cuban and Filipino cooking share the same plate, cooked by a husband-and-wife team working through both heritages on their own terms. Wagyu stands in for vaca frita, and arroz caldo gets lobster poached in calamansi butter. None of it reads as fusion tourism; it reads as two people cooking what they actually know. Their diner next door handles the casual lumpia crowd.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Stone walls, an arched ceiling, and a lower level with its own fireplace make this Lebanese restaurant feel more like a Beirut cellar than a Fulton Market address. The chef draws on family recipes for his mezze and tasting menu, moving through charred pita and parsley hummus before landing on stylized takes on traditional stews and fish dishes. The bar pours cocktails built around arak and tahini for a shorter, looser visit.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The velvet-curtained windows and chandelier glow of this French bistro on Taylor Street have been drawing nostalgic expats and neighborhood regulars for what feels like forever. A cozy back bar invites lingering, but the real draw is the dining room, where frogs' legs Provençale and a properly Gruyère-blanketed French onion soup anchor a menu of classic French cooking with the odd global detour. The courtyard opens when Chicago allows it.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A steakhouse on the Chicago River where the windows actually earn their keep. The beef is butchered and dry-aged in-house, cooked over high heat until the crust is doing real work. Sides run the classic route, creamed spinach and potatoes, and the wine list is long enough to keep a table of deal-closers busy. The room is warm wood and leather, loud in a good way, and nobody here is lingering over a solo lunch.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Empty tomato sauce cans double as pizza stands here, which tells you most of what you need to know about Coalfire's personality. It's a coal-fired pizza spot on West Grand where the 800-degree oven does the heavy lifting, producing thin, blistered crusts with those charred edges that take years of patience to fake. The open kitchen keeps pie production visible from anywhere in the snug dining room, and the Michelin Guide has taken notice.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Colorful wicker seats ring a communal table at the center of this bright Uptown Ethiopian restaurant, where injera arrives in the traditional way and doubles as your only utensil. The menu runs vegetarian and omnivore-friendly, with a small glossary tucked in for first-timers, which is a thoughtful touch in a neighborhood that attracts plenty of them. Picture windows face the street for anyone more interested in Broadway than their dining companions.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Sinatra murmurs overhead, leather banquettes fill the room, and the bread basket arrives before you've even settled in. Elina's is a neighborhood Italian-American restaurant done with real affection for the canon: clams casino, rigatoni alla vodka, chicken parm under a blanket of marinara and mozz. The kitchen doesn't reinvent anything, which is rather the point. Cozy, intimate, and thoroughly absorbed in its own nostalgia.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurant

The okonomiyaki griddle in the center of the room is the whole point, and it makes conversation difficult in the best way. This is Paul Virant's Japanese comfort food spot on Lake Street, small and izakaya-ish, with brass fittings and exposed brick keeping things warm. Guests build their own path through Osaka and Hiroshima styles, with a custom Moody Tongue brew on hand to accompany whatever direction that takes.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A rotisserie chicken counter named for the chef's mom, which tells you most of what you need to know about the vibe. Order at the counter, pick your portion size, add the smashed potatoes cooked in chicken drippings, and try not to feel smug about your choices. The dirt cup with gummy worms is there for adults who prefer their nostalgia unironic. The staff are warmer and more composed than the format requires.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

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. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A Lakeview izakaya and sushi bar where the menu ranges wide enough that ordering feels like a small project. The room is airy and modern, all hardwood floors and natural light, with the kind of calm that makes you want to linger. The kitchen mixes Japanese technique with roaming influences: robata skewers, handrolls, and a donut with a dipping well of matcha semifreddo that earns its place at the end of the meal.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Servers roam the floor with hot coffee and donut holes before you've even ordered, which tells you everything about what kind of diner Lou Mitchell's is. Booths, counter stools, eggs cooked every way imaginable, and an open-faced Reuben on homemade rye that has anchored many a morning near Union Station. An old-school Chicago institution that has never once tried to be anything else.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Named for M.F.K. Fisher, the great American food writer, this Iberian restaurant sits in a whitewashed, tile-lined basement on Diversey that somehow feels like a terrace in the sun. The menu runs small to large, with the kind of clean, confident cooking that makes an anchovy crostini feel like a complete argument. Lakeview locals fill it early and often, which means booking ahead is less optional than it sounds.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The fish arrives already sliced, since the chef handles his prep before guests sit down, which gives this West Loop omakase counter an almost ceremonial stillness. Korean flourishes like kimchi puree and sesame oil show up alongside fish flown in from Japan, and the pacing moves faster than you might expect. The chef rarely looks up, staying locked in, which somehow makes the whole thing feel more serious rather than less.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The glass garage façade on Armitage opens into a warm room of bare wood tables and glowing Edison bulbs, the kind of osteria that takes Piedmont seriously without taking itself too seriously. The menu stays tight and regional, meaning tajarin with ragù, hand-pinched cheese ravioli, and vitello tonnato done properly. The staff moves like they actually want you there, which in Chicago is not always a given.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Tucked into an alley in Ukrainian Village, this outdoor pizza spot from chef Noah Sandoval runs on pan pizzas, sandwiches, and salads eaten at garden tables strung with hanging plants. When the weather turns, takeaway is the move. The Michelin Guide has taken notice, which feels appropriate for a place that manages to be genuinely casual without coasting on it.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The two-story wine tower visible from the door sets the tone: this is a big, glitzy steakhouse on the Chicago riverfront, and it has no interest in being subtle about it. Barrel-vaulted ceilings, chandeliers, and a dry-aging room on display make the priorities clear before you've touched the menu. The thick-cut bacon, flared tableside, arrives as both appetizer and personality statement. Las Vegas would have taken it.

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Weathered wood, a playlist with opinions, and a menu that splits its loyalties between Sicily and the bayou. This small, intimate Italian-Creole restaurant on Chicago Avenue is the project of a chef paying tribute to his Sicilian grandfather, and the kitchen's personality comes through in calamari stuffed with jalapeños and banana peppers, and trenette with cognac-splashed shrimp scampi. The portions are built for sharing, so bring a table's worth of people.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Deep blue velvet seats across two floors mark this upscale Indian restaurant at the edge of West Randolph's dining strip. The cocktail list comes with its own flavor matrix, which is either endearing or a lot, depending on your mood. The kitchen runs classic Indian technique through a contemporary lens, turning out dishes that feel familiar and surprising at once, the kind of place where you dress up a little and nobody feels overdressed.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A wraparound marble bar anchors the two-level room at this polished River North steakhouse, where the décor runs black, white, and wood in a way that says "expense account" without quite shouting it. The menu rotates through Japanese and American cuts alongside shellfish and sides, and the wine list covers Napa to Burgundy with room to roam. The semicircular booths fill with people who dressed for it.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Kurdish cooking on the north side, where breakfast alone draws a crowd: sesame-studded bread, house preserves, and eggs scrambled with roasted peppers arrive alongside bottomless Kurdish tea. The menu spans spreads, hearty meats, and flavors that pull from Turkey, the Middle East, and India in equal measure. The room is low-key, with exposed brick and leather banquettes, the kind of place that looks casual and then quietly surprises you.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Large steel fermentation vats line the back wall of this cozy Wicker Park brewpub, making the beer program hard to ignore. The kitchen holds its own with filet sliders layered with blue cheese and caramelized onions, a grilled fish sandwich with house-made remoulade, and a warm carrot cake with candied pecans that earns its spot on the menu. Tastings help you navigate the draft list before committing, which is a small mercy.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

A New American restaurant attached to Schubas Tavern, which tells you something about the room: relaxed enough for a show night, sharper than it needs to be. The menu is wide on purpose, covering enough ground that the whole group lands somewhere happy, but the kitchen keeps surprising you, with butternut squash schnitzel over spaetzle or Spanish mackerel on coconut-braised chickpeas. Good food that doesn't require an occasion.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Ceramics shipped directly from Mexico line the walls of this lively Mexican restaurant from Carlos Gaytán, and the earth-toned room hums at a volume that suggests nobody has ever eaten alone here. The chef's counter is the seat to angle for, where the kitchen turns out dishes that sit comfortably between traditional and inventive. Tacos, aguachile, tinga de pollo, and a horchata tres leches that tends to follow you home.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

Diners queue on the sidewalk before the doors open, which tells you something about how this no-reservations live-fire restaurant on Milwaukee Ave operates. Everything passes over, under, or through the flames, from the foie gras ganache on grilled hearth bread to the butter cake that comes out of the fire with a crackling crust. The chefs' counter, where you can watch the whole production up close, is the seat everyone actually wants.

1. Esquire The Best New Restaurants in America
2. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

The glass-enclosed kitchen at the front is the first thing you notice, and if you can grab a table facing it, you'll watch the whole operation. This Sichuan spot in Chinatown is named for its signature dish, a fiery pickled fish with sour greens that comes in sizes running up to a platter for six. The wontons in chili oil are a foregone conclusion. A long list of cold sides fills out the table without much effort.

1. Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant

1. Wine Enthusiast Top 50 New Restaurants

1. James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Frank Callero, Joe Flamm, and Steven Zaleski - Day Off Group

1. James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Frank Callero, Joe Flamm, and Steven Zaleski - Day Off Group

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2. James Beard Awards 2024 · Semifinalist · Best Chef: Great Lakes · James Martin

1. James Beard Awards 2026 · Semifinalist · Emerging Chef · Nicolai Mlodinow

The name comes from an obscure white Campanian grape variety, which tells you everything about how seriously this Lakeview spot takes its Southern Italian bona fides. It's a Neapolitan pizza restaurant, wood-fired and traditionally minded, with a patio that leans into the convivial-trattoria feeling. The crust has the soft, charred-edge character the style calls for. 50 Top Pizza USA has taken notice, landing it at number 43 on their national list.

1. 50 Top Pizza #43 · 50 Top Pizza USA

1. James Beard Awards 2025 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurateur · Mark Domitrovich, Brian Jupiter, and Aaron Torricelli - Pioneer Tavern Group