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Topolobampo
445 N. Clark St., Chicago 60654 Route Planner
Mexican,Regional Cuisine
  • One MICHELIN Star : High quality cooking, worth a stop! Using top quality ingredients, dishes with distinct flavours are carefully prepared to a consistently high standard.

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  • Mexican
  • Regional Cuisine
  • Valet parking

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This jewel in Rick Bayless' crown welcomes a rush of diners for original Mexican food with an upscale twist. While you have to walk through cacophonous Frontera Grill to get here, the serenity that greets you is well worth it. The menu, boasting a panoply of flavors and textures, spins with the seasons all the while highlighting regional cuisines and holidays. Though each dish is rooted in tradition, there's no shortage of flair, as in kampachi sashimi decked with the flavors of street corn. There's also a canon of sauces treated with appropriate reverence. To wit, Oaxacan mole chichilo is a symphony of dried chiles, nuts and spices, and makes a sublime counterpoint to lamb loin.
Drinks are noteworthy, but teetotalers will relish those agua frescas.

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  • From US$79
    Hyatt Place Chicago River North
    Very good 8.5
    37 m - 66 West Illinois Street, Chicago IL 60654
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    Fairfield Inn and Suites Chicago Downtown-River North
    Fabulous 8.6
    46 m - 60 West Illinois Street, Chicago IL 60654
  • From US$119
    Aloft Chicago Downtown River North
    Fabulous 8.6
    75 m - 515 North Clark Street, Chicago IL 60654

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