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Mediterranean in Chicago
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Top 5 Mediterranean in Chicago
Editorial canon from Chicago's most-trusted food publications, weighted by cross-publication consensus.
- #1
Avli River North
River North
“Louie Alexakis's modern Greek restaurant group is the current consensus top of Chicago's Mediterranean canon, with regional Aegean cooking well beyond the Greektown playbook.”
- #2
Taxim
Wicker Park
“David Schneider's Wicker Park regional-Greek dining room has been Chicago's most thoughtful Mediterranean cooking since 2009, lauded for heirloom-grain pasta and wood-fired lamb.”
- #3
Greek Islands
Greektown
“The 1971-vintage Greektown anchor whose saganaki and whole grilled fish still define old-school Chicago Greek dining for generations of diners.”
- #4
Athena Greek Restaurant
Greektown
“Greektown's large-patio Hellenic mainstay, a reliable consensus pick for mezze, grilled octopus, and summer-evening Mediterranean dining in Chicago.”
- #5
9 Muses Bar & Grill
Greektown
“The smaller, bar-forward Greektown taverna that critics routinely flag as the neighborhood's best approachable Greek cooking and late-night ouzo hang.”