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The Berghoff. The Berghoff restaurant, at 17 West Adams Street, near the center of the Chicago Loop, was opened in 1898 by Herman Joseph Berghoff and has become a Chicago landmark. [1] In 1999, The Berghoff won a James Beard Foundation Award in the "America's Classics" category, which honors legendary family-owned restaurants across the country.
Glessner House, designated on October 14, 1970 as one of the first official Chicago Landmarks Night view of the top of The Chicago Board of Trade Building at 141 West Jackson, an address that has twice housed Chicago's tallest building Chicago Landmark is a designation by the Mayor and the City Council of Chicago for historic sites in Chicago, Illinois. Listed sites are selected after meeting ...
One of the country's oldest family-owned restaurants running in its original location. [69] 1903. 121. Chicago Cafe. Woodland. California. The oldest or second oldest Chinese restaurant in the United States.
Coordinates. 41°53′40.07″N 87°37′31.11″W / 41.8944639°N 87.6253083°W / 41.8944639; -87.6253083. Chez Paul was a French restaurant in Chicago, Illinois. Established in 1945 by Paul Contos, Chez Paul became famous under Paul's son, Bill. When it was open, it was the oldest French restaurant in Chicago, [1] and was only ...
Café Brauer was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, [1] and it received Chicago Landmark status on February 5, 2003. [8] The building is located on the site of the South Pond Refectory, a wood-frame boathouse and restaurant designed by William Le Baron Jenney which was open from 1882 until 1908. [2]
The restaurant was founded by Leon Finney Sr., originally of Mississippi, in 1940. [1] It was one of the earliest barbecue establishments in Chicago. Along with other restaurants like Lem's Bar-B-Q, Leon's popularized the "Delta style" of barbecue that predominates in the South Side. This barbecue heavily features rib tips, a cheap cut of meat ...
The Pump Room. The Pump Room was a restaurant established on October 1, 1938 by Ernie Byfield. It closed in 2017, then reopened under different names. [1] It is located in the Ambassador Chicago hotel, formerly known as the Ambassador East, on the northeast corner of State Parkway and Goethe Street in Chicago 's Gold Coast area.
Heartland Cafe. The Heartland Cafe was a restaurant in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago.Originally opened in 1976 by two activists as the "Sweet Home Chicago Heartland Café," it became a cultural icon for the diverse neighborhood, [1] known as much for its hippie ambience and left-leaning politics as for its largely (but not exclusively) vegetarian food.