Boka
Giuseppe Tentori
Boka, Chicago, IL
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As a boy, Giuseppe Tentori helped out on his grandmother’s farm in a small town outside of Milan. At the age of 19, while at Antica Osteria la Rampina in Milan, he was invited by chef Gabriel Viti (a Best New Chef 1991) to work at Carlos’ in Highland Park, Illinois. He went on to become sous chef at the Metropolitan in Salt Lake City and chef de cuisine at Chicago’s Charlie Trotter’s before becoming executive chef at Boka in March 2007. Tentori, 35, has created an innovative menu revolving around seasonal ingredients. Tentori’s eclectic, multi-layered dishes include smoked trout and squid stuffed with baby spinach, spicy pineapple and black tapioca.
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#21 at the S.Pelligrino World\'s 50 Best Restaurants 2008; 1723 North Halsted, Chicago, Illinois 60614, USA; Tel:++1 312 867 0110
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816 West Armitage, Chicago, Illinois 60614, USA; Tel: +1 773 248 6228
The Chicago area\'s second-best beers,
many brewed on premises.
watching armies of squirrels and rats do battle in the park
site of the bloody St. Valentine’s Day Massacre, where 7 men were gunned down on February 14, 1929 at the SMC Cartage Company, 2122 North Clark Street
Biograph Theatre (you can still enjoy a movie there) where John Dillinger was betrayed by The Lady in Red and ambushed
This is the Lincoln Park Conservatory, near lake Michigan. Lots of exotic flowers!
Great Chicago Fire of 1871
Alinea ( km) 
