Warm, polished, and centered on handmade pasta you can watch being rolled. A reliably excellent special-occasion-lite room that doesn't tip into stuffy.
Chef-owner Sarah Grueneberg won the James Beard Award for Best Chef: Great Lakes in 2017; Monteverde opened in the West Loop in 2015 · finedininglovers.com
Signature cacio whey pepe uses fusilloni with pecorino and lemon-ricotta whey, with whey replacing water in the dough; pasta is made in an open pastificio · blog.resy.com