Cafe Spiaggia

980 N. Michigan Ave. (Oak St.) Send to Phone

312-280-2750 | Make Restaurant Reservations

Price

$$$$$

Try the antipasti, gnocchi and uplifting desserts at this less-costly Spiaggia sibling.

Cuisine

Italian

Open

Lunch & Dinner daily

Features

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Romantic setting
Private room(s)
Full bar
Reservations suggested
Valet parking & parking garage
Business casual

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Dining room at Cafe Spiaggia, Chicago, IL

Frescos inspired by Andrea Mantegna's fifteenth-century paintings for the Camera degli Sposi in Mantua help make this sleek café perfect for a tryst, if you sit at a table for two in a window alcove overlooking the cityscape. It's also less expensive than Spiaggia across the hall---but far from cheap. Keep the tab down by concentrating on beginners, like carpaccio with lemon dressing, crisp arugula and shaved Parmigiano-Reggiano, or pastas, among them gnocchi with wild boar ragù. Main courses can be a letdown. Anyway, dessert is worth saving room for, particularly airy coconut Bavarian, mousse-like bittersweet chocolate torte and one of the best chocolate ice creams in town. Some servers have too much attitude, but if you tell them it's a special occasion, you may get a pleasant surprise.