James Beard Award winner Grant Achatz, who won the coveted "Outstanding Chef Award" in 2008, is one of the city's most acclaimed chefs. His unique, cutting-edge cuisine, full of twists and turns, comes with equally remarkable service, and an extremely high price.
Many Greek restaurants serve basically the same food; not so at Andros Taverna, where Chef Doug Psaltis serves contemporary Mediterranean food inspired by the classic taverns of Greece, as well as a few items prepared using family recipes.
In Lincoln Park, Armitage Alehouse captures the vibe of a London pub with a wood-burning fireplace, a piano player, and select ales and cocktails.
Dear Margaret in Lakeview offers a type of “ethnic” cuisine rarely seen in Chicago: French-Canadian, the food of French immigrants who settled in the Great White North and brought their love of food with them
Located upstairs from Logan Square's Slippery Slope, The Heavy Feather is a decidedly more subdued bar where the focus is squarely on the craft cocktail. The dimly lit, relaxed, and quite lounge features a lengthy bar focused on classic retro cocktails from the folks behind Scofflaw and Sink|Swim.
Red-lit bar with a DJ booth & dance floor plus cocktails in bottles, Skee-Ball & lots of beer.
A throwback to the fashionable casinos of the 1940s and 1950s, The Whale is located in Logan Square. The vibrant and colorfully hued venue is owned by Legacy Hospitality, the same team behind The Vig (Old Town) and Welcome Back Lounge.
Gaslight Coffee Roasters perfumes Milwaukee Avenue with the aroma of fresh coffee, radiating outside the facilities where the beans are roasted on-site. Passersby can even get a peek at the action from the windows.
Japanese ramen soup is offered with creative toppings & sides in a simple space with a patio.
Logan Square's brimming with notable bars set on taking Chicago's cocktail culture to the next level. There's Mezcaleria, which aims to educate guests on the joys of the smoky, agave Mexican spirit. Also, there's Lost Lake, a divey Polynesian-themed bar with unconventional tiki tipples.
Logan Square’s Testaccio, named after an ancient neighborhood in Rome, announces itself as a wine bar, but it is so much more than that, serving classic and lesser known Roman preparations – and, of course, wine! – that will bring you back to the Eternal City.
A neighborhood Italian ristorante just steps from Chicago’s historic Logan Boulevard, Buona Terra strives to serve the freshest dishes in a relaxed setting. Opened in 2002, Buona Terra has become “the Neighborhood place”.
Logan Square Kitchen advocates for food entrepreneurs and our food system. We teach food safety classes and provide technical assistance to the food industry.
Emporium boasts two locations, plus two additional outposts arriving soon in the Fulton Market District and San Francisco.
This Argentinian cafe is highly rated for its empanadas, but check out other specialties like grilled sweetbreads, too.
Mi Tocaya Antojería is a neighborhood Mexican restaurant serving traditional Mexican style antojos.
Logan Square continues its goal of becoming one of Chicago's "coolest neighborhoods" with this nightlife option certain to please those barflies fed up with trendy Wicker Park bars. This Speakeasy-style spot is similar to Wicker Park's Violet Hour, without the hype, and all about hand-crafted cocktails.
The folks behind Heisler Hospitality (Sportsman's Club, Trenchermen, Revel Room, Lone Wolf, Queen Mary, Pub Royale) strike again, this time with a Latin American-inspired cocktail bar in Logan Square.
Breakfast served all day includes hearty omelets, french toast, waffles, crepes and pancakes, but this national chain also offers soups, salads, burgers, and a variety of entrees.
A jukebox, an indoor waterfall & craft beers are the hallmarks of this quirky late-night bar.
At what other Chicago bar/restaurant can you enjoy playing hammer-schlagen, a drinking game that involves hammering nails into a wooden stump? Only at the Radler can you engage in such a sport, as well as many others, while enjoying hearty German food and drink.
This casual boozy addition to Logan Square's thriving bar scene fills the space vacated by the beloved Bonny's. Keeping things frills-free and fun, The Native is a comfortable watering hole with craft beer (and cheap beer), imaginative cocktails, music and shuffleboard.
The former venue for wild punk bands returns to its roots as an old-school bowling hangout.
The Logan Square location for Paulie Gee's is one of four outposts for the small chain; it's also in Baltimore, Md.; Columbus, Ohio; and Brooklyn.
The award-winning Fat Rice from Abraham Conlon and Adrienne Lo has transformed permanently into Super Fat Rice Mart, which offers Portuguese and Asian specialties.
Vegetables and pastas take the spotlight at Logan Square's inimitable Daisies, a family-run endeavor from chef Joe Frillman and co. The quaint, bustling restaurant features an ever-changing menu of handmade pastas, ranging in color and style from vivid beet agnolotti with smoked trout roe to black truffle ravioli with rhubarb and cured lamb.
Celebrated pastry chef Dana Cree teams up with the proprietor of Bang Bang Pie Co. for this artisan ice cream shop.
