The best restaurants for fine in Chicago, curated by TastyPals editors.
Fast answers for diners searching for fine restaurants in Chicago. These first picks make the occasion easier to compare.
Oriole holds two Michelin stars in Chicago's West Loop, and by most serious accounts it belongs in the conversation about America's most rigorous tasting menu experiences.
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EL Ideas occupies a peculiar and admirably honest position in Chicago's tasting-menu landscape: it is, by deliberate design, a dinner party held in a chef's home — because Phillip Foss actually lives upstairs.
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Norman Fenton's Uptown room asks $190 for its tasting menu, $210 at the seven-seat chef's counter, and the question is whether progressive Latin American cooking built on house-nixtamalized heirloom masa earns that figure.
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Gibsons Italia trades on spectacle, and to its credit, the spectacle is real.
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Lee Wolen's Lincoln Park restaurant has held a Michelin star and a reputation as one of Chicago's more disciplined fine dining rooms — a distinction that matters in a city where ambition and restraint are not always the same thing.
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Viaggio Restaurant Chicago is a italian restaurant in Chicago that is worth opening when you want a clearer read on the menu and the room.
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Greek Islands is a greek pick in Chicago when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Alinea has spent two decades as Chicago's argument for dining-as-theatre, and the question now is whether the spectacle still earns the occasion.
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Remington's occupies prime real estate on the Magnificent Mile, a 225-seat room facing Millennium Park, and it knows exactly what it is: a classic American grill dressed in modern booths and fireplaces, not a destination tasting room.
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Sepia occupies a specific register that Chicago's fine dining scene rarely sustains: the special-occasion room that doesn't perform occasion at you.
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John and Karen Urie Shields built smyth around a premise that still reads as quietly radical in fine dining: that the vegetable courses deserve the same intellectual rigor as anything else on the tasting menu.
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Anna and David Posey's West Loop restaurant has developed a reputation as one of Chicago's more quietly serious tasting-menu destinations — serious in the sense that the kitchen's Scandinavian-influenced approach appears genuinely intere…
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Le Sud Mediterranean Kitchen in Roscoe Village is the product of a genuinely particular biography.
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Indienne is the argument Chicago's dining establishment needed made in public: that Indian cuisine belongs in the same conversation as the city's most exacting tasting-menu rooms, not as a novelty but as a peer.
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Next Restaurant is the kind of fine dining restaurant room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Sushi Suite 202 - Lincoln Park Chicago by Sushi by Bou is the kind of sushi room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Bar Mar is an easy fine dining option in Chicago to suggest without needing a long explanation.
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When Rick and Deann Bayless opened Topolobampo in 1989, the proposition that Mexican cooking belonged in the haute-cuisine conversation was, frankly, radical.
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Shanghai Terrace is a chinese pick in Chicago when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Mastro's Steakhouse is a steakhouse pick in Chicago when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
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Tavern On Rush is the kind of steakhouse room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
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Esmé operates on a premise that could easily collapse into gimmick: a Lincoln Park tasting room that reinvents itself every twelve weeks in collaboration with local artists, each of eight to ten courses arriving on custom-made vessels.
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The top restaurants for fine in Chicago include Oriole, EL ideas, Cariño. TastyPals curates these picks based on occasion tags, Google ratings, and editorial judgment.
Oriole is among the top-rated options for fine in Chicago, with a 9.6 Google rating and 649 reviews.
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