Chicago’s 2019 Eater Award Winners | Eater Chicago

"In Hyde Park, I found Erick Williams’s Virtue to be a Southern restaurant that unusually combines fine-dining technique with American Southern soul, bringing the studious South Side the high-level dining it deserves. Dishes such as cashew dukkah-spiced cauliflower, an eye-catching blackened catfish, and a butcher’s board with ham, head cheese, turkey rillette, pepper jelly, and pickles push diners’ tastebuds while remaining familiar. The atmosphere and service win over a broad clientele as soul music legends waft from the speakers and are honored on the bathroom walls, and that combination helped make it one of Eater National’s Best New Restaurants in America and Eater Chicago’s Restaurant of the Year." - Daniel Gerzina