"Chicago has so many steakhouses, it’s easy for them to blur into an indistinct, beefy snoozefest. But Perilla Korean American Steakhouse in the Loop’s L7 Hotel is a much-needed refresh. The main ingredients for that cure? The KBBQ grills built into every table—where staff transform raw cuts into tasty charred morsels. “I Heart Chi”-clad tourists eat ssam-wrapped ribeye, profit margin discussers dig into toast covered in bone marrow, radish kimchi, and Asian pear mostarda, and couples alternate between forkfuls of rice cake cacio e pepe and chewy kalguksu bolognese. While the daytime menus have standouts, the dinner-only grilled beef action is why we come here. Sure, that might mean cursing at LSD traffic, but it’s easy to recenter ourselves after a perfectly constructed wrap of beef, perilla leaf, ssamjang, sesame oil, and kimchi." - team infatuation