Elizabeth Restaurant

Chef Iliana Regan stays true to her midwestern, farm-to-table concept for diners who wish to take a culinary adventure and experience some of the best of local, homegrown foods.

The finest of fine dining in Lincoln Square, but without the pretension. Chef Iliana Regan's forage-based restaurant will blow your mind.

Playing in the dirt has never been so much fun. Chef Iliana Regan's menu at Elizabeth is based on foraged ingredients - as in she and her staff crawled around in the woods and picked them. You've never tasted anything even close before - pine juice, queen anne's lace gel, truly wild mushrooms and pickled rose petals are just a few of the possibilities. The restaurant, located in an anonymous storefront on Western, is tiny and communal, and after eating a few courses you won't be able to resist gossiping with your tablemates. Buy tickets in advance (it's the only way to get in) and buy them...

When Iliana Regan first announced her ambitious "new gatherer" restaurant Elizabeth, a few facets besides the cuisine made it unique and helped to earn Regan a Michelin star. When it opened, the restaurant served three different tasting menus, only had communal seating, and was the first Chicago restaurant besides Next and Alinea to adopt Nick Kokonas' ticket system. Since then, Elizabeth moved...

Despite a return to winter temps, a sign that spring is here is the appearance of fiddlehead ferns on Chicago menus. The elusive spring green is a chef favorite that's often harvested in early May, thus many of the restaurants that have them now are among the trendiest and priciest in town. Check out the map to see where fiddleheads are already sprouting in the city.

Forager/underground chef Iliana Regan takes over the former Prix Fixe space in Lincoln Square, serving a fine-dining take on ‘new gatherer cuisine’ (New American farm-to-table, nose-to-tail and root-to-branch) in three pricey tasting menus that are reserved online through a ticketing system; the setting is funky cottage with white, wood and metal surfaces, mismatched chairs at communal tables,...

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RIVER NORTH—The second floor of American Junkie is now called The Attic and is only accessible through a separate entrance. The space has been renovated to include a new layout and more of a club atmosphere than the first floor....

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