Free Rein

Restaurant · Loop

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Chicago’s Restaurant Experts Name Their Top Restaurant Newcomers of 2018 - Eater Chicago

"Ariel Cheung, CS Magazine: The buzziest ones—Pacific Standard Time, Passerotto and S.K.Y.—fully deserve the recognition they’re getting, but I also was really impressed by Le Sud, Funkenhausen and Free Rein." - Elizabeth Atkinson

https://chicago.eater.com/2018/12/26/18156280/year-in-eater-chicago-restaurant-newcomers-2018

224 Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60601 Get directions

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