{"id":385696,"date":"2025-11-17T17:38:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:38:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/385696\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:38:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:38:13","slug":"4-recent-chicago-restaurant-and-bar-openings-to-know-november-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/385696\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Recent Chicago Restaurant and Bar Openings to Know, November 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having a tough time keeping up with all the new dining options? Welcome to the Opening Report<\/a>, a curated roundup of recent restaurant openings big and small across Chicago.<\/p>\n

Did we miss a spot? Drop a note at the tipline or email chicago@eater.com<\/a>, and we\u2019ll consider it for the next update.<\/p>\n

GOLD COAST \u2014 Bar veteran Peter Vestinos (Bisous<\/a>, Sparrow<\/a>) is back with Double Fun<\/a>, a \u201870s Hollywood-themed corner bar. Opening Wednesday, November 19<\/a>, the spot channels a Southern California mood with frozen cocktails like a Freezer Door Martini and a Frozen Coconut Mudslide, a lineup of highballs, and classics such as a pisco punch and a passion fruit mai tai. Expect snacks including cheese balls, local chips, and Thai-spiced peanuts from Motorshucker<\/a>, music curated by Uncanned<\/a>, and sidewalk seating to debut in spring. 2 W. Elm Street.<\/p>\n

LAKEVIEW \u2014 Nashville hot chicken favorite Hot Chi Chicken & Cones<\/a> has officially landed in Lakeview<\/a>. The new location brings the brand\u2019s fiery wings, hot honey butter chicken sandwiches, and Middle Eastern\u2013tinged hits like the \u201cPopeye\u2019s Ain\u2019t Sh!t\u201d sandwich to the North Side, along with Lakeview-exclusive dishes such as the Dirty Mac, a mac and cheese piled with hot chicken, Alabama white sauce, and Hot Chi\u2019s signature seasoning. The restaurant also plans to host comedy nights, music performances, and even chicken-eating contests. 953 W. Belmont Avenue.<\/p>\n

WICKER PARK \u2014 Vajra<\/a> is pivoting once again, this time adding a coffee shop inside its former dining room<\/a> as the Indian restaurant shifts to takeout-only service. The new cafe partners with Sparrow Coffee<\/a> on an espresso menu and pastries, with plans to eventually introduce house-made sweets and potential brunch offerings from chef Min Thapa. The space \u2014 once home to Vajra\u2019s bar \u2014 will offer Wi-Fi for remote work, part of the restaurant\u2019s effort to build a neighborhood-focused operation. 2039 W. North Avenue.<\/p>\n

WICKER PARK, STREETERVILLE \u2014 British chocolatier Hotel Chocolat<\/a> continues its rapid Chicago expansion with two new locations in Wicker Park and Streeterville. The Wicker Park outpost<\/a> brings the brand\u2019s signature lineup of drinking chocolates, specialty coffee, and pastries to a high-traffic stretch of Damen Avenue, along with shelves of its cacao treats and gifts. The Mag Mile flagship<\/a> goes bigger with a Wall of Chocolate with more than 100 recipes, 18 varieties of drinking chocolate, and a liquid chocolate tap for drizzling molten chocolate over soft serve or baked goods from Publican Bakery. 1617 N. Damen Avenue, 830 N. Michigan Avenue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Having a tough time keeping up with all the new dining options? Welcome to the Opening Report, a…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":385697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[960,14440,26899,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-385696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-chicago","9":"tag-chicago-restaurant-news","10":"tag-chicago-restaurant-openings","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115566261439895304","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}