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Oriole
French-Japanese New American
You arrive through a converted freight elevator in what used to be a warehouse, which sets the tone before you've touched a menu. Oriole is a tasting-menu restaurant where the chef blends French and Japanese ideas into something that reads as neither, with polished service that somehow avoids feeling stiff. It holds two Michelin stars and a James Beard Award, and the room earns both the ceiling collage and the hushed reverence of everyone in it.
Ten honors, in evidence:
The record strongest first
- AAA Five Diamonds
- Michelin Guide 2 Stars
- James Beard Awards 2025 · Winner · Best Chef: Great Lakes · Noah Sandoval
- The Infatuation Infatuation’s Highest-Rated Restaurants In America
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Nominee · Best Chef: Great Lakes · Noah Sandoval
- James Beard Awards 2022 · Semifinalist · Outstanding Restaurant
- Eater The Best New Restaurants in America
- The Infatuation #1 · The 25 Best Restaurants In Chicago
- Time Out #1 · The 25 best restaurants in Chicago
- The New York Times The 25 Best Restaurants in Chicago Right Now
One number, weighted & current 97
How we scoreThe dishes from the writeups
- Tartlet of Dungeness crab Michelin Guide
- Hokkaido uni Michelin Guide
- Capellini with black truffle Michelin Guide
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- ROOP Chicago Indian Eat · 69
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