Best Breakfast / Brunch Restaurants Chicago

This diner offers all-American style menu items that are strictly vegetarian, and most are suitable for vegans as well. There are also raw food choices, organic beer and wine, and vegan wines.

 Specializing in authentic refined-rustic Mexican Cuisine.

When restaurateur Scott Harris decided to open his latest restaurant concept, he and the team of chefs from Francesca’s Restaurants did their research. Although already experts in their own right for rustic, Italian cuisine in Chicago, the chefs traveled across the country, eating and tasting to discover how chefs nationwide defined this cuisine. Inspired by their travels, the team is proud to introduce the new wine bar and restaurant: Davanti Enoteca in Little Italy.

The Frontera Grill offers the best in Mexican cuisine with a host of hot and spicy dishes prepared with fresh organic vegetables. Frontera Grill was the winner of the 2013 "Outstanding Restaurant" award at the James Beard Foundation Awards.  Many people consider this the best Mexican restaurant in the United States, and once you eat from the menu, you may feel similar.

Celebrity Chef Graham Elliot has left his unmistakable mark all over this narrow, tightly run ship in the former Tree Studios, from the jaunty tweed tam-o-shanters the young sandwich jockeys wear in place of hairnets to the perfectly useless but oh so ironically nostalgic sporks handed out with the menu's token mesclun shrubbery. The main offerings are quintessentially Elliotesque tweaks on sandwich archetypes—the banh mi, the Reuben, the grilled cheese.

The menu at this modern-take on a steakhouse revolves around the $25.00 steak dinner, which includes a salad, house-baked bread, fries and sliced steak topped with an herb-based "secret" sauce. It serves only grass-fed sirloin sourced from Paso Prime in Paso Robles, Calif. and Wisconsin-based Strauss, butchered and wet-aged right on-site 

One of the top 10 heart-healthy restaurants in the U.S. offering healthy meal options that will help you to both eat well and live well.
This (mostly) vegetarian restaurant is under the deft hand of chef and co-owner Shawn McClain, who also operates Spring. Years after its opening, foodies including the carnivorous sort continue to storm this place for dishes like creamy burrata with Concord grape gastrique, favas and an elderflower cracker.

The original Hamburger Mary’s was the brainchild of a small group of hippies living in San Francisco in the early 70′s. “We were extremely poor,” says Bob Charles, the last surviving founder of Mary’s. “We were living on food stamps, SSI, and peace and love. But we had some drug-induced fantasies of owning our own ‘anti-establishment’ bar/restaurant, run on our own relaxed and laid back agenda.”

With just $500 (a fortune for them at the time), they set out to open a gay-owned, people-friendly gathering spot where everyone was welcome. Without much cash, they began their operation on a shoestring budget. Shopping at flea markets and in second-hand stores, they outfitted the original Hamburger Mary’s with mismatched wooden chairs and odd shaped tables. The dishes and flatware patterns were unrelated and often regular items, which added to the charm. Keeping to their hippy tendencies, the original location was named “Hamburger Mary’s Organic Grille.” 

Welcome to Mindy’s HotChocolate Restaurant and Dessert Bar. While we know that you have many dining choices, we wholly commit ourselves to exceed your expectations in all areas of your dining experience.
From the moment you walk through the front door, it is our goal to provide you with an atmosphere that is comfortable and relaxed with exemplary service and an evolving array of high-quality, seasonal and locally-sourced food, drink and pastry.
Whether it is a casual lunch, a leisurely weekend brunch, a delightful dinner or a late night dessert rendezvous, HotChocolate continues to be one of Chicago’s most unique dining destinations.

HUB 51 is the new River North creation from R.J. and Jerrod Melman, the younger generation of the Lettuce Entertain You organization. HUB 51 is a convergence of entertainment, nightlife, dining and social activity-much like the offbeat creations of LEYE were years ago. Striving to be at the heart of Chicago's social and dining scene, the attitude at HUB 51 is to expect the unexpected, a place offering unconventional perks, and outstanding food, drink and service in a spacious urban setting.

Jam, one of the nation’s most celebrated brunch restaurants, in the heart of Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood. Helmed by acclaimed Chef Jeffrey Mauro, formerly of Charlie Trotter’s and North Pond, Jam treats breakfast & lunch with the same level of reverence and devotion to culinary craftsmanship, all the while, maintaining a commitment to affordability.

Joe's Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab is the culmination of a partnership between Lettuce Entertain You and Joe's Stone Crab, the legendary seafood restaurant of Miami Beach. Opened in Chicago in the fall of 2000, Joe's features an extensive selection of seafood, flown in fresh daily, to complement the world's finest Florida Stone Crab claws. Joe's has quickly built a reputation as one of Chicago's top steakhouses, featuring the signature 16 oz. Bone-In Filet Mignon and 22 oz. New York Strip Steak. Matched with Joe's famous side dishes, dinner only gets better when capped with a slice of key lime pie. Enjoy a generous cocktail in the bustling lounge or the tuxedo-clad service of the clubby dining room and you'll understand why dinner at Joe's has quickly become one of Chicago's favorite social engagements.

The Meinl Coffee houses on Chicago’s North Side were created by an Austrian company which specializes in coffee house interior design. Furniture and fixtures were designed and built in their special workshop near Vienna and shipped to Chicago.
Our coffee house at Southport & Addison bridges traditional values with modern culture through their menus, which feature authentic Viennese cuisine. They are professionally prepared and served with premium quality coffee.

An earth-friendly vegan approach to contemporary dining. Our diverse menu features classic American dishes reinterpreted with innovative presentations but without the meat, fish, chicken, or dairy. Bold flavors and imaginative combinations so satisfying you’ll never know what’s missing.

Mexique is a full service restaurant offering modern Mexican cuisine with a French influence. French recipes and cooking techniques during the French occupation of Mexico in the 1860's became an important element in the evolution of modern Mexican gastronomy. Come join us at Mexique as we introduce this historical blending of French and Mexican cuisine with a modern personal style by Executive Chef Carlos Gaytan in a fun and casual environment. Walk-ins always welcome, but reservations are highly recommended.

One of the nation's largest facilities devoted to the art of our time, the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) offers exhibitions of the most thought-provoking art created since 1945. The MCA documents contemporary visual culture through painting, sculpture, photography, video and film, and performance.

The Original Pancake House was founded in Portland, Oregon in 1953 by Les Highet and Erma Hueneke. Their extensive working knowledge of authentic national and ethnic pancake recipes, enables them to offer unique and original menus. Signature items include the Apple Pancake, a single large pancake smothered with sautéed apples and cinnamon sugar baked to perfection.

Park Tavern has a contemporary spin on the gastropub experience, serving craft beer and authentic food in a casual, urban lodge setting. Featuring over 10,000 square feet of space including an oversized beer garden, three dozen TV"s, corporate event and private dining rooms and multi-level dining areas complete with a unique draft beer table tap system, Park Tavern is the perfect destination for your next pre-or-post event lunch, dinner or cocktail gathering. Located just steps away from the United Center, this unique sports bar offers a complimentary shuttle service that will escort you directly to the arena.