📍 Near North Side, Chicago
12 restaurants · 2026
🍽️ 12 Restaurants
Top 10 in Near North Side
1
Winnie's Chicago
A sports bar on Wells St in the Old Town stretch of Chicago's Near North Side. There's little public detail beyond the address.
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2
La Fournette
An Alsatian bakery and café in Old Town, run by the Zimmermann family, whose bread-baking roots trace four generations to a village bakery in Schnersheim, France. World baking cham...
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3
Kapéj Coffee Roasters
A coffee roaster and shop on Sedgwick Street on the Near North Side.
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4
Benchmark
A bar in Old Town on North Wells Street, in Chicago's Near North Side. A local spot for a drink along the Wells corridor.
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5
Old Jerusalem Restaurant
A longtime Old Town spot for Lebanese and Levantine cooking, a few steps off Wells Street. The kitchen turns out hummus, falafel, charcoal-broiled kabobs and shawarma, plus stuffed...
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6
Big Shoulders Coffee
A Chicago coffee shop and roaster on State Street in the Near North Side, roasting small batches fresh each week. Head roaster Diego Guartán was crowned the 2025 US Coffee Roasting...
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7
Dialtone Coffee + Wine Bar
Coffee by day, wine by night on North Wells Street, the flagship of a small cashless café group with more locations coming. It's built for both early risers and night owls, with a ...
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8
Orso's
A family-owned Italian restaurant in Old Town, on Wells Street, and one of the original spots in the historic neighborhood. The old-world room leans traditional, with an extensive ...
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9
The Glunz Tavern
An Old Town classic first opened in 1888 by Louis Glunz and reestablished in 2012 by his descendants, this 48-seat tavern trades in refined European fare across a French-German-Als...
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10
The Rabbit Hole
An Old Town pub and grill at the gates of the Wells-and-Division entertainment district, done up with a curiouser Alice-in-Wonderland theme. The Rabbit Hole mixes pub food with gam...
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