The Best Restaurants in Chicago

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he food is serious enough to impress, playful enough to be fun.

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The Publican is here now. And within the parameters of what it wants to be, it's spectacular.

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Sushi here is the freshest fish around.

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Lula Cafe remains a highlight of Chicago’s culinary scene

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Henri is to realize that it’s not just luxury the restaurant traffics in, but retro luxury

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Mercat is a great place for vegetarians to dine because the expansive tapas menu has such a strong vegetable selection

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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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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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Expect the wow-factor to be high. We’ll never look at “watermelon” the same way again

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Yoshi is still in the kitchen; Nobuko, his gracious wife, works the front desk, and the professional, telepathically attuned staff smoothly serves up creative cuisine at reasonable prices

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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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Nobody does Restaurant Week better than Naha

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

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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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The wine list is more than double the size of the menu, with a broad variety of American, Austrian, French, and Australian bottles along with more than a dozen half bottles and by-the-glass options. The servers are ...