Cozy cafe with Italian fare & a full bar in a quaint white-tablecloth setting with adjacent market.
Address: 1642 E 56th St #1, Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: (773) 643-9171
~ Sabatinos Restaurant in Chicago Is Now Closed. ~
On Behalf of the Sabatino's family, thank you for your decades of patronage and keeping Sabatino's Chicago's #1 family Italian resturaunt.Here's to the next chapter. We hope everyone stays safe during these times. For now, you can find memories of Sabatino's here on our website here as well as Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter.
Sabatino's is an anachronism that's hipper than you'd give it credit for. It is a snifter of brandy, a velvet smoking jacket, Buddy Rich's drum groove on "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy." It is "exquisite" and "quality" spoken with a thick Chicago accent, dressed to the nines in a bow tie and tuxedo vest.
It might also be voted Chicago's best restaurant if AARP The Magazine held a write-in poll, which is to say, the median hairstyle in the dining room is coiffed white. Sabatino's — Old Irving Park's venerable Italian restaurant for 40-plus years — has a menu reflecting its clientele's enduring tastes, with the kind of dishes sadly going the way of the dodo: shrimp DeJonghe, oysters Rockefeller, cherries jubilee, among other chestnuts.
The restaurant is so old, in fact, that co-owners (and brothers) Angelo and Enzo Pagni can't nail down an exact date, though they believe it's 1969. Back then, said Sabatino's office manager, Vickie Van Hove, "it was a spaghetti and meatball kind of place, nothing like it is now."
The Pagni brothers took a long boat ride from Genoa to New York City in 1966. Chicago was their destination. They were practically bambinos when they started cooking at Italian Village. After stops at other restaurants in town, they took over Sabatino's on Jan. 1, 1978. The key, Angelo Pagni said, was cooking a dish on that first day and having it taste exactly the same 33 years later. Customers here don't seek progress or innovation. They want reliability and nostalgia. "We have regulars who drive 30 miles to our restaurant, and that's a long way to come," Angelo Pagni said. "They make the extra mile to see you, you better be on the ball."
Italian-Croatian cuisine served in an industrial-chic restaurant that has a bar.
Address: 932 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL 60607
Phone: (872) 260-3921
Regalia Italian Restaurant and Bar.
Address: 5959 N Broadway, Chicago, IL 60660
Phone: (773) 856-0175
Neighborhood favorite with exposed brick & white tablecloths highlighting Italian cuisine. Buona Terra has been proudly serving Logan Square for over 20 years. Specializing in delicious Northern Italian cuisine, we have become the go to place for every occasion from dinner with friends and family to a quick meal before a show to girls night out. Stop by and see why so many customers came for the food and left as a friend.
Address: 2535 N California Ave, Chicago, IL 60647
Phone: (773) 289-3800
Seasonal, Roman-style pies, antipasti, cured meats & cheeses with wine & beer in a stylish setting. Upscale Italian Pinsa, Pasta, Salads Great wine selections.
Address: 355 E Ohio St, Chicago, IL 60611
Phone: (312) 532-4627