Iliana Regan’sforaging hithas held onto its star even after Regan’s departure to concentrate on the Milkweed Inn in Michigan. Owner Tim Lacey and executive chef Ian Jones understand Regan’s philosophy and continue to prepare tasting menus that change with the seasons.

The exquisiteBYO stalwartin Lincoln Square, led by chef-owners Chris and Nina Nugent, retains its one star. Reservations are required for the 12-course seasonal tasting menu. A more modest five-course French- and Italian-inspired tasting menu is available at Goosefoot Food and Wine, the Nugents’ market next door.

Thebeautiful farm-to-table restaurant in Lincoln Parkwith seasonal tasting menus from chef Cesar Murillo and romantic views of Lincoln Park has retained its one star. Reservations and business attire required.

When chef Jenner Tomaska and manager Katrina Bravo opened Esmé last summer in Lincoln Park, they always intended that the restaurant would also be an art gallery and that the dishes on the tasting menu would be inspired by the images on the walls.The first show, a collaboration with photographer Paul Octavious, opened in January, and Esmé received its first Michelin star in April. There’s also a bar with a separate and more casual menu.

Chef Trevor Teich’s whimsical tasting menu restaurant began as a pop-up in 2015 and finally moved into a permanent home in Bucktown last fall, where it promptly earned a Michelin star. The downstairs bar serves classic French dishes served a la carte, while upstairs, diners can enjoy 12- or 15-course meals inspired by Teich’s childhood memories, with customizations that incorporate their own. The bar is more casual downstairs.

Grant Achatz’s world-renowned molecular gastronomy phenomenon仍然是唯一在芝加哥餐廳三人Michelin stars. During the pandemic, it pivoted to more conventional takeout meals that didn’t require tweezers for plating, but now the Lincoln Park dining room is back open, once again serving exquisite prix fixe tasting menus.

Once known as “the most revolutionary restaurant in America,” Schwa has held onto its Michelin star since 2011. Chef-owner Michael Carlson continues to serve what is described on Tock as a “fucking mind blowing menu” in the same tiny space in Wicker Park. Reservations are still scarce, and liquor is still BYOB.

Chef Tim Flores and pastry chef Genie Kwon originally conceived Kasama as a daytime cafe with sandwiches, lumpia, and pastry, but they began serving a nighttime tasting menu as a pandemic pivot. Now Kasama is not just the home of the only Filipino tasting menu in the city, it’s the first Michelin-starred Filipino restaurant in the U.S.

Inspired by the Iberian coast, Porto has one of the most beautiful dining rooms in Chicago, where diners can assemble a meal from fresh seafood, carved ham, and tinned conservas, enhanced by a selection from the lengthy wine list.

The fine-dining member of Rick Bayless’s Frontera family is a perpetual entry on the list of Michelin-starred restaurants. The team builds its menus around different themes — women chefs, pre-Columbian cuisine — and researches recipes in the cookbook library in the kitchen.

廚師柯蒂斯達菲睜開後續恩典the summer of 2020, undaunted by the pandemic. The restaurant immediately received two Michelin stars and has continued to thrive and serve imaginative tasting menus, despite the many, many changes in the industry over the past two years.

Chef Noah Sandoval and GM Cara Sandoval’s restaurant reopened last summer after a pandemic hiatus with an overhauled dining room. The tasting menus remain as innovative and delicious as ever, and it retains both its Michelin stars.

Chef BK Park’s omakase restaurant, named after a species of shark, has ended its pandemic-era takeout service. Now diners will have to visit the West Loop to experience Park’s elegantly prepared sushi, made with the freshest fish, which earned Mako its Michelin star.

Anna and David Posey’s Scandinavian-inspired restaurant is back open for good after a few stops and starts during the pandemic, serving up the seafood-heavy set and a la carte menus that first earned it a Michelin star in 2018.

Located in a former print shop in the West Loop, Sepia plays up the old-timiness in its decor with plenty of antiques and vintage photos. But chef Andrew Zimmerman’s menu four-course prix fixe menu puts a thoroughly modern spin on classics like trout and steak and potatoes, ensuring that the restaurant keeps its star for another year.

Chef Sangtae Park made the leap from a Niles izakaya to a West Loop omakase spot (via a stint at an HMart) in 2018, and his 15-to-17-course sushi meals have become some of the most celebrated in the city. The restaurant earned its Michelin star in 2021.

去年,喜怒無常的舌頭,由廚師賈裏德Wentworth, who presided over Longman & Eagle’s kitchen during its seven-year Michelin run, and brewmaster Jared Rouben, replaced Band of Bohemia as the city’s Michelin-starred brewpub. Moody Tongue retains its two stars this year, and the Dining Room continues to serve its 15-course tasting menu with beer pairings.