CHICAGO — There’s a new Michelin star in town.

Feld — a tasting-menu restaurant in Ukrainian Village where diners sit theater-in-the-round-style as course upon course is served from the middle of the room — snagged its first star, the Michelin Guide announced at a Tuesday night ceremony in Philadelphia. 

The honor, bestowed annually on the nation’s finest restaurants, comes about 16 months after chef and owner Jake Potashnick opened Feld at 2018 W. Chicago Ave., a process he chronicled, diary-style, on TikTok, building buzz and an audience well in advance of the opening.

“It may be in the city — Chicago’s Ukrainian Village neighborhood, to be specific — but Feld is focused on the farm, sourcing most products from within a four-hour radius,” reads the Michelin Guide’s entry for Feld.

Potashnick had reason for an extra celebratory toast Tuesday: Feld was also named a Michelin “Green Star” in recognition of its sustainability practices, along with Daisies in Logan Square.

Chefs Tim Flores and Genie Kwon opened Kasama in 2020, drawing accolades — and long lines — since. Credit: Provided

Kasama chefs Tim Flores and Genie Kwon can relate to Potashnick’s Michelin newcomer status. 

The couple earned their first star in 2022, the first Filipino restaurant in the United States to do so. On Tuesday, they learned their popular bakery by day, restaurant by night had been elevated to two stars. Just a few weeks ago, Flores and Kwon were in the Philippines, cooking at a gala to celebrate the launch of the Michelin Guide in that country.

Their East Ukrainian Village restaurant joins Ever and Oriole in the West Loop and Alinea in Lincoln Park as Chicago’s two-Michelin star establishments.

For Alinea — arguably Chicago’s most famous and acclaimed restaurant —  two stars is somewhat unfamiliar territory. It has had three Michelin stars since 2010. Last week, chef Grant Achatz got ahead of the official Michelin announcement, posting about his 20-year-old restaurant’s “demotion” from three stars to two while offering congratulations to this year’s winners.

Smyth in the West Loop, owned by another chef couple, Karen Urie Shields and John Shields, is Chicago’s only three-Michelin starred restaurant.

“An honor as humbling as ever,” a post on Smyth’s Instagram said Tuesday night.

Here are Chicago’s 2025 Michelin stars.

Three stars
Smyth 

Two stars
Alinea
Ever
Kasama 
Oriole

One star
Atelier
Boka
Cariño
El Ideas
Elske
Esmé
Feld 
Galit
Indienne
Mako
Moody Tongue
Next
Schwa
Sepia
Topolobampo

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