Entre Sueños - Coming Soon
Restaurant · West Town ·
Upscale Baja Med dining experience offering tasting menus
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1235 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60642 Get directions
Upscale Baja Med dining experience offering tasting menus
1235 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL 60642 Get directions
"An upcoming upscale restaurant in West Town by Stephen Sandoval, set to open later this year." - Serena Maria Daniels
"A permanent home for a project that began as a pandemic pop-up in 2021 showcasing Baja Med cuisine through communal dinners and later moved to Soho House in the West Loop. Chef Stephen Sandoval—who opened the casual West Town bar Diego while the project matured—plans a limited engagement back at Soho House to preview dishes and hopes the permanent venue can begin serving customers by late 2025, possibly adding a tasting menu to more dialed-in offerings." - Ashok Selvam
"Another new pop-up (but way more fancy and expensive) is the weekly dinner series Entre Sueños. Tickets cost $225 per person, and the focus is on Baja-Med food. Each dinner seats 14 people, and includes bites from a seafood food cart, small plates, shared entrees, drinks, and more. This is going on from August until November, and you can purchase tickets through Tock." - adrian kane
"Planned as a separate fine-dining restaurant at 1235 W. Grand Avenue, Sueños has been pushed back and is expected to open in early 2024; it was always intended to be a distinct, more formal counterpart to Sandoval’s casual concepts (and to Diego), rather than under the same roof." - Ashok Selvam
"What began as a 14-seat communal fine-dining dinner series in 2021 has evolved into a larger, residency-to-restaurant project led by a chef with experience under Rick Bayless. Early service mixed Mexican, Baja Med, Spanish and Asian influences and included theatrical touches such as roasting a suckling pig for diners; seafood offerings at the current residency emphasize Japanese-style textures and saucing (including kampachi belly) alongside mariscos and tostadas. After a residency at a Soho House location that allowed a more casual daily menu and critical recognition, the concept is relocating to West Town into a much larger space (75 seats plus a 50-seat patio) where communal dinners will continue in the form of an à la carte and tasting-menu program; practical adjustments such as minimum party sizes are being considered to justify breaking down whole proteins. The team plans a fall opening, menu experimentation informed by travel (including recent research in Mexico), and efforts to retain staff through the transition." - Ashok Selvam