Cache (Chicago)
Reservation System: Resy Instagram: @cachechicago Cache gives off authentic speakeasy energy before you even walk through the door. There is very little about it across social channels, and when you search for Cache, Google Maps does not automatically pull it up. Instead, it defaults to Cache 310, which is a completely different restaurant closer to the […]
Ambar (Chicago)
Reservation system: OpenTable Instagram handles Restaurant (Chicago): @ambar_restaurantchicago Brand / parent Ambar account: @ambar_restaurants Founder / owner Ivan Iričanin: @iricanin_ivan Ambar describes itself as a modern Balkan restaurant, owned by Street Guys Hospitality and the culinary team led by Executive Chef Nikola Stefanović. After being open for just over a year, it already seems to […]
Nadu (Chicago)
Nadu is one of the newer Indian restaurants in Chicago, open for about a year and coming from the team behind Michelin-starred Indian cuisine. The concept is compelling from the start: rather than leaning into the more familiar Northern Indian curry-house format that shows up all over the city, Nadu focuses on regional Indian cuisine. […]
Locavore NXT (Bali)
Locavore NXT arrived with a lot of buzz and even higher expectations. As the next evolution of the original Locavore, it positions itself as a hyper-local, no-imports, deeply Indonesian take on modern gastronomy. Early online reviews tend to echo the same sentiment: wildly ambitious, visually stunning, intellectually impressive — and occasionally polarizing on the plate. That […]