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Italian in Chicago
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Top 4 Italian in Chicago
Editorial canon from Chicago's most-trusted food publications, weighted by cross-publication consensus.
- #1
Monteverde Restaurant & Pastificio
West Loop
“Sarah Grueneberg's James Beard-winning West Loop pasta-focused flagship is Chicago's consensus No. 1 Italian, famous for tortelli in brodo and the open pasta laboratory at the front of the room.”
- #2
Daisies
Logan Square
“Joe Frillman's vegetable-forward Logan Square pasta house turns farmers-market produce into the city's most distinctly Chicago-Italian cooking.”
- #3
Formento's
West Loop
“The B. Hospitality Co. red-sauce palace on Randolph that reinvented the Sunday-gravy template for a modern Chicago audience.”
- #4
Gibsons Italia
West Loop
“The riverfront Gibsons outpost that fuses Chicago steakhouse pedigree with regional Italian cooking, a critic favorite for power-dinner Italian.”