North Pond Cafe opened in 1998, serving low-country cuisine such as rabbit and grits. Now it is wildly successful and serves an appetizer-entree format or an elegant chef-driven fixed tasting menu. Read more.
Alinea is famous for their tasting menus and each are accompanied by a carefully paired wine-tasting progression. Start slowly and to avoid a food coma, stick with the sea bass as an entrée. - Soraya
Chef Grant Achatz's two epic tasting menus are accompanied by a carefully paired wine-tasting progression. This is rarefied cooking, but not so rarefied that it loses its sense of fun. Read more.
Try the 15 courses on the $175 tasting menu or start with a spring roll plump with shio kombu and enoki mushrooms. There is a quartet of desserts, including an ethereal chicory custard with whiskey. Read more.
This Wicker Park foodie gem is all about Michael Carlson. Nine-course meals served over the world kitchen's rap-metal soundtrack—the best "tasting menu" in the city. Read more.
Andrew Zimmerman, chef of Sepia, eats here on his nights off. He loves the Tasting menu. Read more.
Every dish is precise on the eight-course, $90 tasting menu, highlights of which include a luxurious chestnut-mushroom soup and a Cinderella pumpkin semifreddo coated in nougatine powder. Read more.
The chef brings precision to every dish on the eight-course tasting menu, highlights of which include a luxurious chestnut-mushroom soup and a Cinderella pumpkin semifreddo coated in nougatine powder. Read more.
Les Nomades vet Chris Nugent hasn’t lost attention to detail, his mastery of French cooking technique, his penchant for lux ingredients and a tasting menu that reminds diners this is a special event. Read more.
Did the tasting menu and they just kept bringing delicious food until we said stop! Great atmosphere and amazing food.