What You Need to Know About the Chicago Dining Scene This Week

There’s more steak.

By John Hardberger and Carrie Schedler

Published Sept. 14, 2016

GT Prime (707 N. Wells St., 312-600-6305), the much anticipated outside-the-box steakhouse from Giuseppe Tentori and the Boka Group, opened its doors last week. A sibling restaurant to Tentori’s much-lauded GT Fish & Oyster, GT Prime offers a menagerie of meats in a spectrum of sizes. There are four- and eight-ounce cuts, as well as an all-in “carnivore platter” of four featured creatures.
The third location of sausage stop Bangers & Lace (1851 W. Addison St., 773-697-8667) finds a home in Roscoe Village, in the space that previously housed Endgrain. Expect lots of beers and lots of housemade sausages. Oh, and more beers. And sausages.
The Filipino food influx continues—not only is the opening the city’s first (and the area’s second) location of fast-food spot Jollibee imminent, we now have a location of grocery store Seafood City (5033 N. Elston Ave., North Mayfair, 773-555-1234), which has fast-casual dining options and stocks tons of milkfish.

On the heels of the Parthenon’s shuttering, another Chicago stalwart has announced its final day of service: Rose Angelis (1314 W. Wrightwood Ave., Lincoln Park, 773-296-0081) will plate its final pasta on October 1.
That big new hotel at the corner of Clark and Addison streets across from Wrigley Field has a name (Hotel Zachary) and a lot of local restaurant tenants, per a big announcement yesterday. When it opens in 2018 there will be as-yet-unnamed projects from One Off Hospitality (the Publican, Avec), Folkart Restaurant Management (Yusho), the Fifty/50 Restaurant Group (Roots Handmade Pizza), and 4 Star Restaurant Group (Crosby’s Kitchen, Remington’s).

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