This River North spot draws a Merchandise Mart crowd for salads, sandwiches, steaks and after-work cocktails.
Tableside steak presentation
$2.95 and $5.00 bar menus
Private dining rooms available
The restaurant, established across from the hustling Merchandise Mart, is a fixture in the River North neighborhood. The newly remodeled dining room and bar is set with warm, earthy tones. In the main dining room, white cloth tables complement the cozy, oversized mocha leather booths. Charming black-and-white prints of old Chicago framed simply in black adorn the walls, along with a chalkboard announcing the daily wine specials. The Kinzie bar is sleek and contemporary with an inviting feel.
In Short A plum location across from the Merchandise Mart keeps this dimly lit steakhouse buzzing. Lunch highlights include the classic Chophouse salad with mixed greens, sliced tomatoes, bell peppers and cucumbers, and the crab-cake sandwich served on a toasted onion roll with roasted red-pepper aioli. Steaks come in a variety of cuts and sizes, from a 12-ounce dry-aged New York to a 48-ounce porterhouse for two. Side dishes include sauteed spinach and mushrooms.
I ordered from this place through Dining In. I had the small filet. It was so tough that I found it hard to cut It also lacked flavor and was dry. all in all not a good experience.
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Kinzie Chop house is one of the best steakhouses I've been to in Chicago. It is off the magnificent mile so you get to escape all of the tourists and the steep prices. The service was exceptional and the food was even better!! It's a short cab ride if you're staying on Michigan ave. I would definetly suggest this place to any steak lovers!! :)
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My friends took me here for my birthday, and I loved it! Everything was absolutely delicious, and the service could not have been better. It was a wonderful, relaxing atmosphere. I will be back!
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My husband and I came to this restaurant by mistake. We had been at the Merchandise Mart's cooking school, The Chopping Block. The food and experience was so horrific at the chopping block that we left starving. We walked out the back of the Mart to find a restaurant and this was the first we came to. We were greeted by friendly staff, ushered to a cozy table, had amazing service and a fantastic meal, We thought we could not eat one more bite when we dived into two glorious desserts. We can hardly wait to go back.
PROS: GREAT SERVICE FOOD AND INTERIOR
CONS: none
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This restaurant has the most incredible food Ive ever tasted. Its pricey so we go once a year for my birthday and I spend the entire year looking forward to eating a Filet Mignon from Kinzie. They have excellent wine as well and Monday offers bottles at half price. The food is complimented by an awesome staff; everyone is really nice and very well educated on the menu. By far my absolute favorite place to eat out and the one I tell everyone about constantly.
PROS: absolutely everything
CONS: the price...ouch!
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Anytime someone tells me they want to go to a really good steakhouse in Chicago, I tell them to go to Kinzie Chophouse. This is a smaller, more intimate restaurant in a location right behind the Merchandise Mart, so you tend to get a few less tourists than some of the other steakhouses. The cuts of meat are always cooked exactly how you want them to be cooked (and they make sure of that with excellent, but not pushy service) and the sides that you can order a la carte are so big that usually two people can share them. The wine selection is wonderful, and the waitstaff is very knowledgeable about the wine pairings.
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A Place Recommended by Locals
By Brucephous
During lunch hour in an Irish-named bar, a young bartender recommend a few steak houses to us, including a celebrity-named one. Fortunately for us, a couple of elderly men interrupted our talk. In a gravelly voice, one said, "If you want a good steak, go to Kinzie's." His friend agreed. (We went in early evening.)Truer words were never spoken. My aged ribeye was one of the best 3 steaks I have ever had. The expert waiter made this meal a princely experience, helping me to pair up a good California zinfandel with the steak. Salad, bread, entree, and wine all arrived in a timely manner. This was over 2 years ago, and I still have a vivid memory of it. I can't wait to visit Kinzie's again for a great steak.
Pros: Steaks, wine, service Cons: sometimes busy
Posted 06/10/09
raw scallops
By badger1978
i just moved into the area and tried my hand at this place last Sunday. i sat at the bar for 10 mins before the bartender even looked at me. another 10 mins went by before he took my order. WAY out of his depth.
i ordered scallops and the goat cheese. goat cheese was good but the scallops were raw when they came out. i bit into the first one then tried another. after many apologies from the bartender the same scallops came back out, reheated and still raw! i nearly threw them back at the kitchen.
i quickly asked for my check and as leaving the manager was lurking around asking people at the bar how their meal was. not me, i think i had a pi#sed off look on my face. no second chances here, too many better steakhouses in the city. you have been warned
Pros: nothing Cons: bad service/bad food
Posted 05/21/09
ATTENTION ALL CARNIVORES... STEAK ALERT .....STEAK ALERT.....
By leemarie99
When we got there we were craving, obviously Steaks... Since we were never there before, the waiter asked if we would like to see the types of meat cuts available. Now that's not something you see everyday.
He brought out a tray of all the different meats.. I chose the 14oz DELMONICO..Med , a fatty but juicy steak. My husband choose the 24oz Porterhouse.. Med Rare.. loved it..
This is not a chain type of resturant.. Like Sulllivan's. We are glad we choose this place.
Pros: Valet parking, Meat selections
Posted 07/10/08
This is a Steak House????
By ytteba57
When the server comes to the table with a basket of small slices of RAISIN BREAD(??) and Italian bread both of which are ice cold, and herbed butter that is still frozen, one would think the only way to go was up. Wrong! The supposed Caesar salad was limp with barely a hint of what tasted more like vinegar and oil than Caesar dressing. Since everything was ala carte, (salad, veges, potato of any sort) perhaps the Caesar dressing was ala carte also. Obviously any type of seasoning/steak butter/ wine sauce on the steak was ala carte also since it was completely lacking in any type of seasoning, etc and also lacked even a grilled taste. One steak was ordered medium rare, the other medium. The server did not know which was which and in cutting each steak, it was impossible to tell. This definitely is the poorest excuse for a steakhouse that we have ever patronized. We went to Kinzie on the recommendation of the concierge at our hotel. If it were possible to give a lower rating that 1 star, it would definitely get zero stars. If anyone recommends this restaurant, RUN, DON'T WALK IN THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION!!!
Pros: This is definitely a thumbs down. There were no pros to this meal. The only pro was leaving the restaurant. Cons: Quality of food, half frozen bread, frozen butter, steaks cooked incorrectly and gristly
Posted 05/03/08
Just Another Steak House
By TheNorthFace01
Well the bar was the only highlight of the night, it is pretty hard to mess a drink up. I thought the steak was below average, I think I could see where the jockey was hitting it, I could get the same NY Strip at the Jewel. After being to almost all the steak houses in Chicago, I would say Gibsons, Chicago Chop House, Gene and G, Smith & Wol, Ruth Chris. And twenty later Kinzie, don't waste your money here!!!
