The Best Restaurants in Chicago

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It’s also homey-feeling—the kitchen takes centerstage in the space, and the room feels, as intended, like an off-shoot of the dinners they held in their apartment.

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The Publican follows a simple logic: (1) find the highest-quality oysters, fish and pork and (2) stay out of the ingredients’ way.

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Sushi here is the freshest fish around.

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it may be the best neighborhood restaurant in Chicago

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Fresh touch shapes an instant classic

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The menu at the mother ship is a bit intimidating in its depth and pricing, especially considering that these are small plates, but most were pretty darn good

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Homaro Cantu still hasn’t lost his sense of childlike wonder when it comes to the kitchen.

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save some room for a footlong éclair filled with coffee custard or the boozy baba cake, which is drenched tableside with your choice of three different rums.

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And, of course, you eat steak. Mastro’s wet-ages theirs for 28 days, cooks them in a 1,500-degree broiler, and serves them nude on sizzling 400-degree plates with nothing but clarified butter and parsley.

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Even if you don’t know the couple personally, it’s natural to feel a bond with their restaurant and its trajectory, which mirrors Chicago’s growth—and growing pains—as a major restaurant scene

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I can’t recommend a better introduction to innards than chef Riccardo Michi’s tripe Florentine, thin clouds of silky veal honeycomb extraordinary on his rosemary-flecked focaccia

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NoMI Kitchen has a pared down menu and prices to match, but the restaurant’s elegant food and ambience endure.

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A warm blueberry-almond financier with a ginger-almond ice cream sandwich still haunts my dreams.

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Though Naha has been open since 2000, it feels as fresh as the spring vegetables chef-owner Carrie Nahabedian rotates in to her seasonally focused New American menu

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At Chicago Cut you can enjoy the casual yet fine atmosphere and rub elbows with the hoi polloi without going whole hog. For example, you can order a Caesar salad to start, then have a burger ($21) or a shrimp salad ...