🍽️ Best Fine Dining in Chicago
60 fine dining spots in Chicago, scored and ranked for 2026.
🍽️ Open Interactive GuideTop 10 Fine Dining Spots
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Alinea
Grant Achatz three-Michelin-star temple of molecular gastronomy that redefined what American fine dining could be. The multi-course tasting menu is a theatrical journey -- edible balloons, tablecloth ...
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2
Smyth
Two Michelin stars for John and Karen Shields farm-driven tasting menu that is as much about the land as the plate. Ingredients come from their own farm in Door County, Wisconsin, and every course tel...
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3
Oriole
Two Michelin stars hidden down a West Loop alley -- you literally walk through a parking lot to find it, which makes the dramatic room inside land even harder. Noah Sandoval's tasting menu weaves Japa...
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4
Kasama
The first Filipino restaurant to earn a Michelin star in America, and it operates as a bakery-cafe by day and a tasting menu by night. The longanisa breakfast sandwich in the morning is one of the bes...
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5
The Aviary
Grant Achatz's cocktail bar where drinks arrive in custom vessels, some requiring tools to consume. The ice program alone is worth a PhD. This is the Alinea of cocktails — theatrical, technically obse...
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6
Ever
Curtis Duffy's two-Michelin-star fine dining destination. Artfully plated, precisely choreographed New American tasting menus served on sleek black tables under museum-quality lighting. Adjacent cockt...
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7
Indienne
The only Michelin-starred Indian restaurant in Chicago, and the only one in town pairing French technique with regional Indian spice work on a tasting menu. River North address, Tock booking weeks ahe...
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8
Schwa
Michael Carlson's eccentric Wicker Park BYOB where punk rock energy meets Michelin precision. The tasting menu changes constantly, the chef works the entire line himself, and reservations are famously...
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9
Elske
David and Anna Posey Scandinavian-leaning West Loop room offering a full tasting menu and an a la carte bar option. The plating is clean, the seasoning precise, the menu deeply seasonal. The kringle p...
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10
Feld
West Town tasting menu from chef Brent Frederick, newly Michelin-starred and built on Midwestern ingredients with global technique. The room seats twenty-eight, the menu rotates often, and Tock starts...
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All 60 Fine Dining Spots in Chicago
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Mako
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Esmé
92
Atsumeru
92
Kyōten
92
Boka Restaurant
91
Kai Zan
91
Tzuco
91
North Pond
91
Sepia
91
Bonyeon
91
Midōsuji
91
Temporis
91
Hawksmoor Chicago
91
Goosefoot
91
Moody Tongue
90
Cariño
90
EL Ideas
90
Atelier
90
Adalina Prime
90
Chicago Cut Steakhouse
90
Swift & Sons
89
The Alston
89
Shaw's Crab House
89
Jeong
89
Gene & Georgetti
89
BLVD Steakhouse
89
Mastro's Steakhouse
89
RPM Seafood
88
Vajra
88
Acanto
88
SuSu
88
Adalina
88
Rose Mary
88
Michael Jordan's Steak House
87
Asador Bastian
87
TAO Chicago
87
Brindille
87
El Che Steakhouse & Bar
86
Tre Dita
86
Gibsons Italia
86
Signature Room at the 95th
85
STK Steakhouse
85
Stetson's Modern Steak + Sushi
85
NoMI Kitchen
85
Morton's The Steakhouse (Original)
85
The Oakville Grill & Cellar
84
Dēliz
82
Erie Cafe
82
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