Chicago Restaurant Week 2024: New restaurants and best deals
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Banana leaf-wrapped bass from Proxi. Photo courtesy of Choose Chicago
Despite January's frigid temps, it's a hot month at hundreds of local eateries offering Chicago Restaurant Week deals Jan. 19 through Feb. 4.
Why it matters: This annual event helps keep Chicago restaurants chugging through these normally slow winter weeks.
Pro tip: If you want to snag top reservations, you'll have to book soon.
By the numbers: Now in its 17th year, the CRW lineup features more than 400 restaurants in 32 city neighborhoods, as well as 46 suburban spots.
- Prix-fixe brunch and lunch costs $25, and dinners are $42 or $59, excluding beverage, tax and tip.
🔥 Hot reservations: Bookings go fast for darlings like Daisies, Brindille, Miru, Proxi, Frontera and Virtue.
👀 Restaurant Week newbies: This year's first-timers include Bucktown's Pompette, Dawn in Hyde Park, Logan Square bistro 'Atta girl, Avondale's Wolfhound Bar, Streeterville's Monarch and Lion and River North's Olio e Più.
🍝 Lunch bunch: Some of the best deals come from spots that offer lunch and brunch specials, including Gene & Georgetti, Piccolo Sogno, Cafe Robey, The Florentine, Bistronomic, Jaleo and more.
The intrigue: Diverse options are growing, with at least nine Indian restaurants participating this year, including Mango Pickle, Kama, Vermilion, Rooh and Bar Goa.
Be smart: Eater's Samantha Nelson recently calculated this year's best bargains and found some "deals" actually cost more than just ordering off the menu, while others use smaller portions.
