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1. Blue Fire Restaurant
4.2
Awesome(119)
$$$$
• Contemporary Italian • Oak Park
Booked 22 times today
Blue Fire is located in Elmwood Park, Illinois, and specializes in serving authentic European cuisine. This restaurant offers catering services and is perfect for family dinners, business meetings, or meeting with friends. Blue Fire also offers packages for private events.The menu at Blue Fire includes main dishes, salads, pastas, seafood, burgers, shawarma, pizzas, desserts, and much more. We also have a children's menu and vegetarian dishes. Popular dishes include rigatoni alla vodka, Alfredo pasta, pork medallions, steak, beef stroganoff, dark side of the sea, arugula fusion roast beef, and fried calamari. Offered desserts include tiramisu, cheesecake, medovik, and mille-feuille.
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2. The Little Gem Restaurant
4.5
Awesome(1280)
$$$$
• Contemporary American • Oak Park
Booked 18 times today
This Intimate, Stylish Little Restaurant is Elegant and Romantic With a Warm and Welcoming Atmosphere. A Relaxed Fine Dining Experience.Casual or Smart - All Feel At Ease.DINERS CHOICE AWARD ANNUALLYDATE NIGHT SPECIAL : Sunday thru Thursday 3 Course Dinner For 2 w/Bottle of Wine $120 per couple.Reservations are Recommended - Walkins are always Welcome.Full Bar with a Speciality Bourbon Collection, Fine Wines and Craft Cocktails.Also Check Out Our Venue - Next Door - ENCORE! Little Gem Lounge is just as cosy, warm and inviting, same delicious menu, great for small plates, shareables and full menu available. Cocktail Lounge with cocktail tables, high tops and regular dining.**ALSO - PRIVATE PARTIES For Up To 70 Guests in either Venue.Check Out: https://encorelittlegem.comGift Cards, Private Parties and Customized Menus. Please call (917) 327 8997 or Visit https://thelittlegemcafe.comEmail us : info@thelittlegemcafe.comWe Look Forward to Serving You!
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3. La Notte Ristorante Italiano - Oak Park
4.4
Awesome(765)
$$$$
• Italian • Oak Park
Booked 3 times today
La Notte executive chef and owner Giovanni Matteo Mancini has a multitude of recipes which draw on his upbringing in Italy, but also his families ancestral recipes from Rome, Tuscany, and Bari. Years of experience and creativity allow him to bring the essence and flavor of Italy out in his cooking while creating new and sumptuous dishes. All of Giovanni's dishes are made to order satisfying every customer’s needs. Accommodating dietary restrictions and allergies when needed, but always providing fresh delectable dishes for every palate. Giovanni brings the flavor of Italy and the ambiance of upscale downtown Chicago dining to Oak Park's Marion Street district.His contemporary twist on old favorites of authentic Italian cuisine make you come back for more time and againNow Offering Valet Service for $8 from 6PM -10PM
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4. Butcher and the Bear
4.6
Exceptional(550)
$$$$
• Steakhouse • Lincoln Park
Booked 29 times today
A boutique steakhouse, a chef-driven restaurant, is described as "where the classic speakeasy meets the timeless allure of a modern premium steakhouse."
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5. Taxim
4.4
Awesome(1118)
$$$$
• Greek • Bucktown / Wicker Park
Booked 9 times today
Taxim, which is located in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood, features regionally-inspired Greek dishes paired with an all-Greek wine list. The stunning dining room is fitted with soaring 16-foot ceilings, travertine marble floors, dramatic Byzantine-style lamps and artwork, and the rooftop dining area lined with Greek flowering herbs.The restaurant was chosen as one of of Chicago's Best New Restaurants in 2009/2010 by the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Magazine and the Chicago Reader. Additionally, Taxim's housemade yogurt with young favas and lamb confit was selected as one of the Best Bites of 2009 by the Chicago Reader, the house-cured sardines were mentioned in Time Out Chicago's 2009 "100 Best Things We Ate (and drank) This Year" feature, and the wood-grilled octopus was selected as 2010's "Best New Dish" by Chicago magazine. Additionally, chef-owner David Schneider appeared on the Food Network's "Iron Chef America" in April 2011 going head-to-head with Iron Chef Cat Cora.
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6. Brasero
4.8
Exceptional(738)
$$$$
• Contemporary American • West Town
Booked 62 times today
Named one of Robb Report's Top 10 Best New Restaurants in the country, Brasero brings Latin American passion and Midwestern grit to Chicago's West Town neighborhood. This exciting, high-energy space showcases Chef John Manion’s wood-fired, South American inspired cooking, culminating from decades of experience. Brasero showcases the traditions of South American wood fired cooking with flame grilled steaks and shellfish, refreshing crudos and ceviche, and other seasonally inspired dishesBrasero boasts an exclusively South American wine list with 100 bottles of wine under $100 dollars for you to explore along with cold cocktails and local beers. Join us every Sunday at the bar for all day Happy Hour or Wednesday for half off bottles of wine all night!For reservations of groups of 7 or more, email us at info@braserochicago.com or call (872)342-2079. We ask that these parties participate in one of our two large party menus. For more details, please contact us.
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7. Mama Delia
4.2
Awesome(123)
$$$$
• Spanish • Bucktown / Wicker Park
Booked 10 times today
Mama Delia, located in Chicago's Wicker Park, is a modern Spanish restaurant and sherry bar offering a fresh take on what is happening in Spain today.Mama Delia is a celebration of the authentic culture of Spain, today. Via our frequent trips to Spain each year, we are able to experience first-hand the cultural shifts this dynamic country undergoes and bring those flavors and culinary traditions back to Chicago. Led by Chef Marcos Campos, our menus showcase the exquisite regional products of Spain with dishes that are ingredient-driven and nostalgic. Following Chef Marcos’ lead, desserts by Executive Pastry Chef Shannah Primiano combine classic Spanish sweet dishes with her more contemporary methods and intriguing ingredient pairings. The award-winning beverage team, led by industry vanguard Brian Sturgulewski, has built Mama Delia’s bar program around the inimitable versatility of sherry, not only as a world class wine but also as a cocktail ingredient without parallel.
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8. A Tavola
4.5
Awesome(782)
$$$$
• Italian • Ukrainian Village
Booked 11 times today
Founded in 1995, a tavola is one of the city’s best restaurants, bringing Chicago an intimate and authentic dining experience. At a tavola the emphasis is, appropriately, on the food. Authentic dishes from Italian regions are re-created using Italian cooking methods and the finest imported Italian products.a tavola is the culmination of professional cooking experience by Daniel Bocik, a versatile chef from Chicago, who brings back home the knowledge and experience of an education at the California Culinary Academy and the finest restaurants of San Francisco, Paris, and Milan. To ensure the freshest food at a tavola, fresh fruits and vegetables are selected from a local organic farmer, meats and seafood are personally selected by Chef Dan from local markets.
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9. Hemmingway's Bistro
4.7
Exceptional(1420)
$$$$
• Contemporary American • Oak Park
Booked 18 times today
At Hemmingway's Bistro the menu combines classic French dishes with the freshest Midwest ingredients. The daily specials reflect the chef's love for fresh seafood. Using mostly East-coast seafood flown in from Boston daily, the chef creates dishes like wild mushroom-crusted halibut on horseradish whipped potatoes and roasted sea bass on Caussoulet beans.There is also a Parisian seafood bar offering towers of Plateau de Fruit de Mer with fresh oysters, clams, shrimp, and lobster.
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10. Ada Street
4.9
Exceptional(1224)
$$$$
• American • Bucktown / Wicker Park
Booked 43 times today
Ada Street is a romantic restaurant with reviews raving about its cozy, intimate ambiance and delicious food. Customers love its 'romantic' and 'swanky' atmosphere, perfect for a date night. The attentive service and good wine list also add to the overall romantic experience. As one reviewer said, 'A perfect cozy dinner date spot.'
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