Cellar Door Provisions

Cellar Door Provisions is best described as “the kind of restaurant someone needs to take you to.” It’s vibrant, quirky, changes daily, and possesses a unique sort of honesty in the playfulness and creativity of the food. It’s not the kind of place you bring your big group of out-of-town hard-to-please family, nor the kind of place you bring your suited-up business team to impress them with luxury. Rather, you bring a few food-obsessed best friends and spend the entire evening trying everything on the menu (it’s small, so not impossible to do); over the course of the evening, befriending the whole staff of the tiny location, while drinking your way around the world with their exceedingly thoughtful wine list, featuring predominantly natural and modernist wines, but with true expertise in pairing with the dinner menu.

It’s a rare art to create a space that is so passionately intentional with zero fuss and a generosity of real skill – Cellar Door is definitely one of the most beautiful phrases in Chicago dining.