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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.
The awards strongest first
- Michelin Guide Selected Restaurant
- Eater Chicago’s Best Italian Restaurants
One number, weighted & current 75
How we scoreThe dishes from the writeups
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Clams casino
“before diners dig into clams casino, rigatoni alla vodka, chicken and eggplant Parm, cherry pepper ribs, Dover sole piccata, and more”
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Dover sole piccata
“before diners dig into clams casino, rigatoni alla vodka, chicken and eggplant Parm, cherry pepper ribs, Dover sole piccata, and more”
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