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Vivere Restaurant Review

The Italian Village, 1st Fl.
71 W. Monroe St. (Dearborn St.) Send to Phone
ChicagoIL 60603
312-332-4040 | Make Restaurant Reservations
Complex Italian dishes shine at this first-floor fine dining establishment in the Italian Village restaurant threesome. Vivere Restaurant is one of our | Top 10 Chicago Business Restaurants | Top 10 Chicago Italian Restaurants |

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Lunch Mon.-Fri., Dinner Mon.-Sat.

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Great Wine List

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Dining room at Vivere, Chicago, ILThere is eating, and then there is fine dining. Vivere offers the latter, in wood-trimmed surroundings no less. The Capitanini family has been operating the Italian Village restaurants since 1927, so expect nothing but the best. What we particularly like is that the kitchen is not afraid to trot out a range of ideas, from a complex agnolotti di fagiano (pasta rectangles stuffed with pheasant) to what some might consider a peasant's dish---grilled fennel sausage with onions, rapini and fingerling potatoes. Desserts are a dream, perhaps tulipano di frutta secca, a pastry case wrapped around a mixture of dried cherries, walnuts and apples or chocolate cake with a vein of chocolate truffles. The extraordinary wine list is one of the best in Chicago. The Baroque yet contemporary atmosphere is quite an eyeful, but in a good way.

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