RL Restaurant

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"Jackie O would be at home" at this "elegant" Gold Coast American, a Ralph Lauren production that "solidly delivers" with "delicious", "stylish" dishes in an "old-school" wood and leather space where you can "rub elbows with Chicago society"; if it's "expensive", that just makes it a "special event" kind of place.

Power brokers, moneyed locals, and Michigan Avenue shoppers keep the revolving doors spinning at RL, the initials of designer Ralph Lauren who lent his name and signature soigné style to the eatery that adjoins his Polo/Ralph Lauren store. Inside, cozy leather banquettes are clustered under hunt-club-style art hung on wood-paneled walls. The menu of American classics, including crab Louis,...

RL (appended to the Ralph Lauren store) is a retro-classic restaurant that’s --- surprise, surprise --- impressive. The atmosphere is as clubby as you’d expect, the walls papered with pictures of every size and style. As for the menu, it’s awash in familiar American dishes, like shrimp cocktail with gin cocktail sauce, bone-in rib-eye and bananas Foster. Sharp, tuxedoed waiters do a lot of the...

RL is a bona fide class act all around, but would you have expected anything less from the master of American designer apparel? Ralph Lauren's eponymous all-American steakhouse is housed in his multilevel boutique in the heart of the Mag Mile, and most diners look as though they've stepped out of one of his ads. The venue's dark wood accents, roaring fireplace and elegant dining room/lounge fit...

Located adjacent to the world's largest Polo store, the Chicago Flagship on Michigan Avenue, RL Restaurant represents Ralph Lauren's debut into the restaurant industry. Opened in 1999, the restaurant features the vision and dcor of Ralph Lauren and modern city-club cuisine.195251ATTR:BAR