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Italian•Oak Park•value
Ciro
Ciro is a sensible italian call in Oak Park in Chicago when you want something that usually lands well.
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10.0
Based on 232 reviews
Best Italian Restaurants in Chicago: 45 Picks for 2026
Chicago's Italian cooking carries genuine weight, from the city's defining Italian beef sandwiches to the serious modern rooms of the West Loop and the red-gravy institutions that have fed the neighbourhoods for generations. It's a cuisine the city treats as its own rather than borrowed.
45 restaurantsAvg rating 9.3moderate – valueUpdated July 2026
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Top Italian picks in Chicago
Fast answers for diners comparing italian restaurants in Chicago. These first picks are sorted from live restaurant data and editorial fit.
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Italian•Chicago•$$$
Trattoria RNB Private Dining & Events
Trattoria RNB Private Dining & Events suits a night out when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
hidden gemdate night
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9.8
Based on 151 reviews
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Italian•Avondale•value
Provare Chicago
Provare Chicago is one of the better-known italian spots in Avondale in Chicago, which makes it a practical place to start.
hidden gemdinner
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9.6
Based on 5359 reviews
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Italian•West Loop•moderate
Alla Vita
Alla Vita is a Boka Restaurant Group Italian project in the West Loop, occupying a bright, plant-filled room that reads as deliberately contemporary — closer to a modern European brasserie than the brick-and-candle Italian template Chica…
West Loop dinnerdate nightgroup dinner
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9.6
Based on 5056 reviews
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Italian•Chicago•moderate
Il Porcellino
Il Porcellino occupies a warm stretch of River North with the kind of room that does real work before a dish arrives — exposed brick, a glowing bar, and a retractable roof at the back that, when Chicago's weather cooperates, opens the sp…
Italiandate nightfamily dinner
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9.6
Based on 4921 reviews
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Italian•Oak Park•value
Blue Fire Restaurant
Blue Fire in Oak Park is not shy about its aesthetic.
dinner
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9.6
Based on 1158 reviews
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Italian•Lincoln Park•moderate
DeNucci's Lincoln Park
DeNucci's is Ballyhoo Hospitality's love letter to the Italian-American neighborhood joint — not the kind that trades on nostalgia ironically, but the kind that actually means it.
Lincoln Parkfamily dinnerdate night
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9.6
Based on 897 reviews
8
Italian•Edgewater•value
Sfera Sicilian Street Food
Sfera is the rare restaurant with an honest origin story — Steven Jarczyk and Daniela Vitale spent years hawking arancini at North Side farmers markets before they ever had a brick-and-mortar address, and that hustle is baked into the co…
dinner
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9.6
Based on 504 reviews
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Italian•Edgewater•value
Regalia bar & restaurant
Regalia isn't trying to be the flashiest thing on the North Side.
dinner
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9.6
Based on 437 reviews
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Italian•Chicago•$$
Amano Bistro Chicago
Amano Bistro arrived on the North Center dining scene Memorial Day weekend 2024, the first restaurant from Serbian-born partners Nikola Paunovic and Nemanja Menicanin — and what makes it interesting is the seam they're working: Italian c…
hidden gemdate night
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9.6
Based on 312 reviews
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Italian•Ukrainian Village•value
Mirella’s Tavern
Mirella's Tavern opened in Wicker Park — right on Division Street, not far from the Ukrainian Village border — as something specific: a bar that takes its kitchen seriously, built around a memorial.
hidden gemdinner
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9.6
Based on 218 reviews
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Italian•River North•moderate
Quartino Ristorante
Quartino Ristorante is a italian pick in River North in Chicago when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
River Northbusiness dinnerdate night
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9.4
Based on 15470 reviews
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Italian•Chicago•splurge
Gibsons Italia
Gibsons Italia trades on spectacle, and to its credit, the spectacle is real.
special occasiondinnerupscale
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9.4
Based on 4207 reviews
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Italian•Chicago•moderate
OLIO E PIÙ
OLIO E PIÙ suits a night out when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
Italiandate nightfamily dinner
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9.4
Based on 3672 reviews
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Italian•Ravenswood•value
Spacca Napoli Pizzeria
Chicago's pizza discourse tends to overcorrect — either romanticizing Neapolitan tradition to the point of parody or dismissing it as European affectation.
dinner
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9.4
Based on 3274 reviews
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Italian•Chicago•$$
Francesca's On Chestnut
Francesca's On Chestnut is a italian pick in Chicago when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
cocktailwine bardate night
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9.4
Based on 3171 reviews
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Italian•Chicago•moderate
Monteverde Restaurant & Pastificio
Sarah Grueneberg's Monteverde has occupied a particular position in Chicago's West Loop since it opened — the room that demonstrated the city could sustain genuinely serious Italian cooking, not as novelty but as ongoing commitment.
West Loop dinnerdate nightgroup dinner
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9.4
Based on 2738 reviews
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Italian•Lakeview•value
Coda di Volpe
Coda di Volpe is an easy italian option in Lakeview in Chicago to suggest without needing a long explanation.
Lakeviewcasual nightgroup dinner
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9.4
Based on 1838 reviews
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Italian•Evanston•value
Trattoria Demi
Trattoria Demi is an easy italian option in Evanston in Chicago to suggest without needing a long explanation.
dinner
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9.4
Based on 1310 reviews
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Italian•Chicago•$$
Viaggio Restaurant Chicago
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.
cocktailfine diningwine bar
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9.4
Based on 940 reviews
21
Italian•Lakeview•value
Ella Elli
Ella Elli arrived on the Southport Corridor in 2017 as the eleventh restaurant under 4 Star Restaurant Group, and it has held its footing in Lakeview with the kind of low-key specificity the neighborhood rewards.
Lakeviewcasual nightgroup dinner
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9.4
Based on 734 reviews
22
Italian•Evanston•value
Campagnola
Campagnola occupies a specific and useful lane in the Evanston dining scene — a global menu at an accessible price point in a suburb that defaults pretty reliably toward safe Italian-American and faculty-dinner comfort.
dinner
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9.4
Based on 375 reviews
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Italian•Chicago•$$$$
Dēliz Italian Steakhouse
Dēliz Italian Steakhouse arrived in Bucktown in December 2025 with a premise that's harder to pull off than it sounds: marry the muscle of a serious American steakhouse with the soul of Italian cooking, in the former Etta space on West N…
brunchwine barcocktail
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9.4
Based on 291 reviews
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Italian•River North•moderate
Siena Tavern
Siena Tavern is a large, deliberately social Italian-American room in River North that makes no effort to disguise its ambitions: this is a restaurant built for groups, for noise, and for the kind of occasion that calls for a long table…
River Northbusiness dinnerdate night
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9.2
Based on 4825 reviews
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Italian•Chicago•$$
Volare Ristorante Italiano
Volare Ristorante Italiano suits a night out when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
cocktailwine bardate night
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9.2
Based on 4064 reviews
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Italian•Andersonville•moderate
Calo Ristorante
Calo Ristorante has been anchoring Andersonville's Clark Street since 1963, and the Recchia family's refusal to modernize the room or the menu is, by every account, the entire point.
Andersonvilledinnerbrunch
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9.2
Based on 2648 reviews
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Italian•Chicago•moderate
La Scarola
La Scarola operates on a logic that most Chicago Italian rooms have quietly abandoned: the room itself is the destination.
Italiandate nightfamily dinner
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9.2
Based on 2145 reviews
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Italian•Chicago•$$
Osteria Via Stato
Osteria Via Stato suits a night out when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
cocktaildate night
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9.2
Based on 1954 reviews
29
Italian•Hyde Park•value
Ascione Bistro Hyde Park
Ascione Bistro Hyde Park is an easy italian option in Hyde Park in Chicago to suggest without needing a long explanation.
Hyde Parkdinnerlunch
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9.2
Based on 1149 reviews
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Italian•Chicago•$$$
BIB GOURMAND
Ciccio Mio
Hogsalt's restaurants tend to traffic in a particular brand of theatre, and Ciccio Mio leans into it: vintage chandeliers, velvet drapery, antique mirrors throwing candlelight across a 51-seat room.
italianbib gourmanddate night
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9.2
Based on 937 reviews
31
Italian•Bridgeport•value
Franco's Ristorante
Franco's Ristorante has been holding down the corner of 31st and Princeton since 1989, which in Bridgeport terms means it's basically infrastructure.
dinner
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9.2
Based on 891 reviews
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Italian•Oak Park•value
Il Vicolo Trattoria
Vito Tufano left Naples and landed in Oak Park, which is either a surprising choice or a logical one depending on how you look at it — a tight-knit, walkable suburb just west of Chicago that actually supports the kind of neighborhood tra…
dinner
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9.2
Based on 804 reviews
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Italian•Gold Coast•splurge
Alpana
Alpana Singh opened this Gold Coast room in 2022 with a credential most restaurateurs can only aspire to: she is the youngest woman in history to pass the Master Sommelier exam, and she built the entire restaurant around that fact rather…
Gold Coastspecial occasiondate night
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9.2
Based on 709 reviews
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Italian•Oak Park•value
Cucina Paradiso
Cucina Paradiso has been holding down the Hemingway District since 1995, which in Oak Park years is basically geological time.
dinner
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9.2
Based on 595 reviews
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Italian•Bucktown•value
Antico
Chef Brad Schlieder built Antico around a conviction that still reads as quietly radical on the Chicago Italian scene: restraint is a skill.
Bucktowndinnerdate night
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9.2
Based on 334 reviews
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Italian•Chicago•moderate
The Village
The Village is the kind of italian room you reach for when the evening is meant to matter a little more.
Italiandate nightfamily dinner
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9.0
Based on 4891 reviews
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Italian•Chicago•$$$
Piccolo Sogno
Piccolo Sogno suits a night out when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
date night
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9.0
Based on 2159 reviews
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Italian•Bucktown•value
Club Lucky
Club Lucky has been a Bucktown institution long enough to have watched the neighborhood transform around it, and that history reads clearly in how the room carries itself — red-sauce Italian-American confidence, zero apologies.
dinner
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9.0
Based on 1206 reviews
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Italian•Chicago•$$
BIB GOURMAND
Tortello
Tortello sets its terms plainly: handmade pasta worked in the front windows, a counter to order at, a Vespa overhead, and a long, narrow room floored in black-and-white tile.
italianbib gourmand
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9.0
Based on 1178 reviews
40
Italian•Gold Coast•splurge
Adalina Italian
Adalina Italian is a italian pick in Gold Coast in Chicago when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
Gold Coastspecial occasiondate night
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9.0
Based on 1061 reviews
41
Italian•Oak Park•value
Rustico
Chef Gabriel Padilla spent close to three decades moving through the Spanish and Italian end of Chicago's dining world — Café Iberico, Piccolo Sogno, Oggi Trattoria — before landing on the idea that Oak Park didn't need to be a suburb pe…
dinner
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9.0
Based on 950 reviews
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Italian•Lakeview•value
Angelina Ristorante
Angelina Ristorante is a sensible italian call in Lakeview in Chicago when you want something that usually lands well.
Lakeviewcasual nightgroup dinner
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9.0
Based on 757 reviews
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Italian•Chicago•$$$
Gussie's Handmade Italian
Gussie's Handmade Italian suits a night out when you want italian that feels grown-up without getting stiff.
date night
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9.0
Based on 532 reviews
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Italian•Andersonville•moderate
Anteprima
Andersonville has always rewarded the curious — that stretch of Clark that still feels like it belongs to the people who live there rather than to an algorithm optimized for foot traffic.
Andersonvilledinnerbrunch
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9.0
Based on 521 reviews
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Italian•Logan Square•moderate
The Duplex
The Duplex is a italian pick in Logan Square in Chicago when you want dinner to feel a little more planned.
Logan Squaredate nightcasual night
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8.8
Based on 1625 reviews
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Common questions about Italian in Chicago
What are the best Italian restaurants in Chicago?
The top Italian restaurants in Chicago include Ciro, Trattoria RNB Private Dining & Events, Provare Chicago. TastyPals curates these picks based on Google ratings, review volume, and editorial judgment.
What is the highest-rated Italian restaurant in Chicago?
Ciro is among the highest-rated Italian restaurants in Chicago, with a 10.0 Google rating across 232 reviews.
How much does Italian food cost in Chicago?
Italian restaurants in Chicago range from moderate to value. Most mid-range options fall in the $$$$ range.
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