John's Food and Wine sits in Lincoln Park with a menu built around seasonal produce and simple, well-sourced ingredients. Dishes on offer include a lobster salad with fish sauce vinaigrette, chilled Island Creek oysters with ramp mignonette, a kohlrabi-and-peach summer salad, stracciatella with grilled pita and sungold tomatoes, and a fried fish sandwich with kimchi ketchup. The cheeseburger, made with house-ground beef and Cabot clothbound cheddar, has developed a following of its own, alongside a caviar-topped bar snack the restaurant calls the Chicago Happy Meal.
The wine list runs long and leans into small, often natural producers — grower Champagne, orange and skin-contact bottles, and a wide range of lesser-known regions from the Mosel to Etna to the Finger Lakes — organized for drinking rather than collecting.
Michelin has selected John's Food and Wine in both the 2024 and 2025 guides.
The wine list runs long and leans into small, often natural producers — grower Champagne, orange and skin-contact bottles, and a wide range of lesser-known regions from the Mosel to Etna to the Finger Lakes — organized for drinking rather than collecting.
Michelin has selected John's Food and Wine in both the 2024 and 2025 guides.