Marmalade

Marmalade is breakfast with a twist, lunch with imagination, and brunch with a satisfying flair. We reinvent menu staples by adding unique ingredients and unexpected flavors, then delight with artful presentation. Combining the freshest ingredients with a touch of stylish charm, each dish is carefully crafted by our Chef and his team to taste even better than it looks. The result is an...

"Every dish delivers" at this fairly "cheap" American BYO in "out-of-the-way" North Center offering an "extensive, imaginative" daytime menu of "decidedly upscale" "sweet and savory options"; "attentive" staffers tend to diners in a "bare-bones, but modern" milieu, and regulars warn that "long waits" on weekends will only increase "unless we can keep it quiet."

It looks like Marmalade will have more than just hearty breakfast and fresh-squeezed juices. The corner restaurant, taking over the former Le Sabre space in Ravenswood, is shooting to open at the end of June, according to owner Gus Katsafaros, whose uncle actually owned Le Sabre.

Katsafaros hopes to take his family diner heritage to the next level at Marmalade, which will serve breakfast and...

RAVENSWOOD—The awning is up at Marmalade (1969 W. Montrose), but paper still graces the windows. A sign on the door says they're hiring, but no work was being done midday on Monday. Awning says Marmalade will serve breakfast and lunch and be a juice and espresso bar. [EaterWire]

LAKEVIEW—Umaiya Cafe looks to have closed and the space, next door to Mixteco Grill, is turning into Urban Vegan, a...

Marmalade is breakfast with a twist, lunch with imagination, and brunch with a satisfying flair. We reinvent menu staples by adding unique ingredients and unexpected flavors, then delight with artful presentation. Combining the freshest ingredients with a touch of stylish charm, each dish is carefully crafted by our Chef and his team to taste even better than it looks. The result is an...