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| - We're so glad we chose to come here on our one opportunity to eat dinner while in town. "Real" food that foodies would still flock to in Chicago, but less trying to be overinstagrammed for publicity and much much more affordable.
The most memorable thing has got to be the bread, served with a beef fat candle and whipped butter w/ sumac. By bread, I mean a pizza dough puffed in the oven - what a creative yet simple and delicious way to serve "bread!" At $8 it's pretty steep, but we were offered more bread multiple times, so maybe it's bottomless bread as long as your candle/butter lasts? Who knows. But totally creative with wow-factor and a great way to start your meal.
We ended up choosing bread, a salad, 2 tasting portion pastas, and 2 mains, and it was more than enough food to be comfortably full for 2 people. The flavors were mostly delicious. My favorite was probably the broccoli with a ton of funk. Get that too. Overall, I thought everything we had was priced extremely fairly and tasted great. There were a minor missteps in the execution (like overcooked bucatini and not so crispy duck skin) but at no point did I feel like my money wasn't well spent.
Service and ambiance were great. Everyone said happy anniversary to us because of my little open table note, the servers were attentive and sweet and very on top of their stuff.
Would totally come here again if we end up moving here, maybe try a pizza...
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