Italian Village Restaurant in Chicago

71 W. Monroe Street

Chicago, IL  60603

Phone:              312-332-7005

Take the El:            to Monroe Street

Hours:              Mon-Thurs – 11am to 12am

                        Fri-Sat – 11am to 1am

                        Sun – 12pm to 12am

Credit Cards:            American Express

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Cuisine:            Northern Italian

The Italian Village Restaurant in Chicago has been operating for more that 75 years, having served pasta in fine style since 1927.  Lunchtime finds this restaurant, with its low-lighting (provided by strings of lights draped from the ceiling) and a mural of the Italian countryside, busy with corporate businesspeople, while the dinner crowd is a mixture of tourists and theatre patrons.  Service is excellent at the Italian Village Restaurant in Chicago, as they’ve been in business long enough to have perfected their technique

Though the main draw of the menu at the Italian Village Restaurant in Chicago is the traditional Italian pasta dishes (try the three-cheese tortellini with an appetizing chunky tomato sauce or the linguine with shrimp and broccoli), there are also choices boasting steak, chicken, or fish to please the meat-lover.  Try the sage- and prosciutto-stuffed chicken with mushrooms in dark sauce or the lasagna and chicken Vesuvio, a house favorite.  The Caprese salad comes highly recommended, with three hefty tomato halves topped with mozzarella and basil, it’s a delicious start to a fine Italian meal.

Like wine?  With one of the most notable wine lists in all of Chicago, bottles are available from $25 to $1,000 with over 1,000 options in foreign or domestic.  The Italian Village Restaurant in Chicago also offers about 10 by-the-glass selections.