Quartino Ristorante & Wine Bar is part of Gibsons Restaurant Group, the Chicago hospitality group that traces back to Gibsons Bar & Steakhouse, opened on Rush Street in 1989. In River North, that lineage takes an Italian turn: a menu of small plates, handmade pasta, and Neapolitan-style pizza built for sharing across a table rather than one dish per person.
The restaurant runs a dedicated pasta kitchen where dough is shaped and cut by hand, and a display pizza kitchen with a stone hearth oven visible from the dining room. A vintage salumeria case anchors part of the space, stocked with artisanal salumi and housemade cheeses meant to pair with wine bar spuntini. The wine list draws from small-production, family-owned Italian estates, with bottles also sold for take-home.
Reviewers regularly call out the pappardelle, thin-crust pizza, prosciutto, octopus, short ribs, fondue, and profiteroles, alongside the room's small-plates format generally. The dining room itself runs loud and crowded most nights, part of the lively, come-as-you-are energy the space is known for.
The restaurant runs a dedicated pasta kitchen where dough is shaped and cut by hand, and a display pizza kitchen with a stone hearth oven visible from the dining room. A vintage salumeria case anchors part of the space, stocked with artisanal salumi and housemade cheeses meant to pair with wine bar spuntini. The wine list draws from small-production, family-owned Italian estates, with bottles also sold for take-home.
Reviewers regularly call out the pappardelle, thin-crust pizza, prosciutto, octopus, short ribs, fondue, and profiteroles, alongside the room's small-plates format generally. The dining room itself runs loud and crowded most nights, part of the lively, come-as-you-are energy the space is known for.