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Everest

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Street Address 440 S LaSalle
Chicago, IL 60605
Phone312-663-8920
Website URL www.everestrestaurant....

If you’re sick of gimmicky food, make the three-elevator climb up to Everest. Trends come and trends go, but no one can knock Jean Joho’s towering South Loop stunner from its lofty perch. In terms of pure pleasure, Joho’s nuanced tasting menus (four courses, $110) still deliver at the highest levels, as in the impossibly smooth foie gras topped with buttery little croutons and bedded on rich diced pineapple. The waitstaff is full of veterans quietly doing good work, and the wine list—strong on Alsatian selections—is among Chicago’s most impressive. From extravagant amuse-bouches to ridiculous arrays of petits fours at meal’s end, everything at Everest is gracious and top-notch.

Additional Information

Rating: 4 stars

Price: $50-plus

Cuisine: French

Neighborhood: South Loop

Noteworthy:
3 or more vegetarian items
dress code
free dinner parking
telephone reservations
wheelchair accessible

Dishes We Liked:


(All dishes are part of a four-course $110 tasting menu.) Spring onion bouillion, duck and pheasant presskopf, home-smoked salmon naturel with herbed Alsatian fleischnagga, 64-hour-cooked short ribs, sea bass baeckeoffa, Alsatian vacherin with Poire Williams, chocolate glacé, vanilla coulis 

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