5 innovative restaurants to seek out in Chicago
by OpenTable team
Updated 20 December 2022
A clutch of enterprising places is rewriting the restaurant playbook in Chicago. For a Korean American trailblazer in Avondale, change means transforming the way it hires and retains staff. On the Gold Coast, a library and science lab hybrid (inspired by Albert Einstein himself) stirs up some of the most experimental cocktails in town.
Culinary innovation takes on diverse forms in the Windy City. These are the five restaurants that show what it takes to make real waves.
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