Reviews of Shallots Bistro (Restaurant)

David Gerbuz

Service staff are unbelievable. I probably ate the best/ freshest sushi here. We got about 5 rolls to share for the table. I had a burger which was delicious. You get what you pay for.

v

Excellent Waitress who was familiar with the grand offerings throughout the entire menu. She was patient, able to ask the questions of the customers to help pinpoint those appetizers, soups and main courses that would meet their satisfaction & budget. She allowed the time and demonstrated patience & care. She was knowledgeable. Perfect service.

meir bernath

Pretty good kosher food in chicago,

Phil Cohn

Really great kosher food. Sushi was as good as I have had. We will return soon.

C Melendez

sushi & steaks are Kosher & so tasty. Just hate the renovation going on threw meal.

Ziggy Gelman

Food is great but kinda pricey

Gary Thompson

Outstanding food and service

Alexander Grange

Pricey but tasty.

Mordechai Hoffmann

Service was top notch. Absolutely the best kosher wagyu steak you'll ever have!

Martin Weiss

Great place. we come here once a month awsome food

olanrewaju onapajo

I was at Shallots Bistro for graduation celebration. The place is very neat and well lighted. The food is pricey but worth every cent.

Samuel Hahn

The best kosher restaurant. Sushi was perfect. Wish they had a bar

Bridget Williams

TRUFFLE FRIES OFF THE CHANG

joel s

Whatever I'll say is not enough

Avi Elkaim

The grand burgers are lit.

Adam Pritzker

Food was decent but way overpriced. The steaks were just ok. The food was decent but overpriced. Disappointing small overpriced wine list. Milts bbq which i had the following night was much better food at a much lower price

joseph Daskal

Awesome food

Sol Eisenberg

Worth the trip from anywhere. Literally! Was shocked to see how much they charged for a Delmonico steak, but still don't regret it!

Joseph Schechter

5 stars

ezra bodansky

Best food ever ate in my life time

Chaim Kutoff

Sushi was amazing but service was slow

Izzy Friedlander

What a great Dining experience, the food is perfect and the service was out standing, we told the waiter that we are on the way to catch a flight and they served us very promptly, I also appreciate their portable chargers they loaned us while dining, we had Filet Mignon with grilled artichoke both were just perfect and juicy, I live in NYC and I would fly in just for the dining experience, I have to get some excuse for my business, SEE YOU AGAIN

Shifra Magier

Best restaurant! Amazing service clean and welcoming environment!

Trany Braun

Best restaurant I ever went to delicious food.

Daniel M

Good place to eat

Jeanne Private

Beautiful atmosphere, good food in large portions.

Joshua Nudell

Really great food and prompt courteous service

Vince

High quality.

Sally Sticks

This place is by far one of the best kosher steakhouse, I have been here a few times and every time I am just amazed how good the food is.

Manuel Urbina

Excellent restaurant, fantastic service and delicious food and wine!

chani shapiro

Always great food and service.

malka kurtz

nice place but it lost its intimate feel in the renovation.

Jackie Favish

Delicious food, great presentation.

Jerry

Manager is a total Shmuck. Pretends to be nice but really couldn't give a s**t about you. His attitude is horrible.

See Gee

Best sushi i'v ever tasted in my life!!!!!!!!!!

Michael Allen

Very good food and ambiance. Upscale and priced accordingly.

Owen M. Janssen

Milt's Bbq is so much better.

mo h

Places currently closed

trent stack

i love this place and Chana at the front desk is hot!!!!!

Sam H

This restaurant is the best I ever eat at the best food ever thanks

Jacob Schlaff

Chicago's best.

Richard Cohn

superb dining

Ari Baral

Food veeeeeeeery good - has to be bc its so expensive. BAD service.

Mayer Rosen

Tasty food, great service! Price is on the high side but it's worth it

Pete Human

Everything is so tasty and good here. One of the best steaks I’ve ever eaten. It’s a very upscale and fancy designed restaurant with a wide range of wine selection. Feels cozy and romantic. Good for business meetings as well. All the dishes we tried were perfectly cooked and delicious. The service is top notch, the waiters pay attention to all the details. Clean and neat. I’d recommend this place. However, be careful, it’s extremely expensive.

Paula Nelson

Eclectic kosher menu and outstanding service.

Aron Ringel

We were in town for other stuff and decided to check out this hyped place. We walked in and the decor was very nice and we were seated right away, the food did take a drop to long to come given there was hardly anyone there. When the food came out the food was great not the hype that everyone created. It was better then most restaurants but not like OMG. The staff tried very hard to make our visit better and i give them tons of credit for trying. Maybe for some reason when we were the food wasnt the best but i will try it again and give an update

Drink Aphobia

I eat at Shallots very frequently, The food at this restaurant is overall very solid, waiters are nice and helpful. It's a bit pricey but not too crazy being that they are one of the only quality kosher steakhouses currently in Chicago. Complaint: The wine here is Extremely extremely grossly over priced. I am generally not a complainer and rarely write reviews but the wine pricing here is marked up over 1000%! For example they charge $17 a glass for the Benyamina reserve cab which is $23 a bottle tops if you were to pick it up at a store, do a quick google price search for yourself. They aren't preparing anything special for the wine, just pouring it no reason why they need to make more than 100%. I haven't been to any other kosher restaurants anywhere with this type of wine pricing, very upsetting and really needs to be changed..... this would never float in an area with more restaurant options. Side Suggestion: the bread dips have got to go feels like I'm having Friday night dips from the grocery store. You should change it to a nice oil n garlic dip, bread should be sliced (toasted) and presented better as well. If you ask around I'm confident most of your customers would agree. Sorry for the anonymous email address but my wife didn't allow me to put my real name down :). Wishing Shallots a lot of successs! Sincerely, Genuine Foody

Jose Vinas

Excellent steak and ambiance. Kosher at its best.

Avi Goldstein

Been hearing about this place from all the Chicago people for years. Totally lived up to the hype!

Moshe Fridman

WHY did I come? I came to this steakhouse

David McSwiggen

Best sushi in Chicago. Remodeling

Nathanel Mori

Great sushi, and I recommend sticking to the bar menu. For the actual full blown entrées, anything that isn't very expensive tends to be very bad (e.g. $90 steak is amazing, but the $45 steak is soaked in sauce and is quite gross by any standard). In general, place is overpriced, but it's definitely a nice joint with good atmosphere so at least you get some return for the premium. And you must check out the hilarious item description for the Del Monico steak (in the photos section for this location).

Shainy Schwartz

Great food and service

j y

The best

Shavy Hershkowitz

I'm from New York and I've been to some good restaurants, but I've never seen something like this! The food was divine, the service was phenomenal, and the atmosphere was just plain amazing! I would come back to Chicago just to be able to experience it again...

Elimelech Esterzohn

Shallots Bistro is a paragon for sophisticated, yet homey food mastery. I have heard that people fly in from NY to Chicago to dine at Shallots but couldn't quite understand why....UNTIL I had dinner here. The food tasted delicious and was brought out quickly, wait staff was courteous and knowledgeable. Dinner was expensive, but considering similar style restaurants in NY - reasonable.

Ashy Levinson

Great food!

Aaron Parker

This is must go to spot for any meat, ribs, sushi and burger lovers! The sushi is the best I have had and the ribs are phenomenal. Definitely worth the drive from the Chicago metro areal

Katie Luchen

Such good food. It is a bit pricey but would be a nice place to go every so often for the price.

jack solomon

Outstanding

Efraim Davidoff

Pricey, sushi not worth buying. They give you very little. Stick to the burger menu.

Mike Bakaturski

First and last visit.

Dovid Grossman

Excellent food and the lunch time atmosphere is very quiet. A very pleasant time together.

Deborah Levitas

I have been there 4-5 times over the last 4 years. The food is prepared fresh and the service is excellent.

wendy bornstein

Amazing!

shlomo enden

Premium quality food. All of my guest enjoyed the kosher food for their very first time.

Rene Garcia

Está cerca vale

Todd Riester

The food is still delicious and the service was more than adequate. The updated decor and loss of the bar area were both poor choices.

Andrew Tennant

It's top of the line cuisine.

Brian Polatsek

Amazing, service and ambiance!

Adam Dorfman

WOW - that is all I can say. I was invited to this restaurant by a good friend, and I could not wait to try the food. The service was perfect, great atmosphere, and most importantly, some of the best sushi I have ever had. Beautifully, simply-prepared - perfect fish. I can't wait to come back!

Rabbi YD Miller

Great place, great food and super service!

jonathan chapman

An elegant gourmet kosher restaurant. Excellent options to choose from and centrally located in the Jewish community.

Nathan Thomas

Excellent food! Friendly staff and maitre d!

lazer framovitz

Great service, exceptional food!

Larry K

Very high-priced kosher Gourmet continental restaurant but the food is very good if you're rich

Silviu Runcan

The best place in the Chicago suburbia. An extraordinary dining experience. Very friendly crew.

Renee kanefield

I have been to the best kosher restaurants in New York and LA and Shallots in Chicago is spectacular Really above and beyond The sushi is fresh and top notch. Fish and meat entrees were high quality and cooked to perfection and delicious as were the side dishes The manger and employees were more than accommodating and the service was Extremely professional This is an extremely high end kosher restaurant ... a fabulous experience every time

Anna Finkelshtein

Expensive place but great food and service

Avi Schenk

I was in Chicago for a conference and the organizers ordered a Kosher lunch from Shallots Bistro. They ordered the menu item "The Bomb" it was a pretzel bun filled with all sorts of deli meats and sauces. It was quite delicious, which is good because they ordered it 4 times that week! One of the evenings my wife and I went out to Shallots and we had a wonderful time, the steaks were expertly prepared and drinks were refreshing and the dessert quite interesting. Great place for a special night out.

Import Transportation

Good kosher place to stay !!!

Moti Mitteldorf

One of the best kosher restaurants in the country

Sam

One of the best Kosher restaurants anywhere.

shmuel fine

Great restaurant

B Y Kahana

Excellent food excellent service, waited some time for the food. but do you really really pay for it

Stutz Malone

Absolutely the finest in Kosher cuisine. sushi is the best. Highly recommend

Rosanne Younes

Excellent service, love the new updated menu and atmosphere

erich connor

The food is still delicious and the service was more than adequate. The updated decor and loss of the bar area were both poor choices.

Joseph Bucay

Restaurant kosher de súper lujo

Ari Zucker

The Bar Menu is slightly less fancy but still very delicious and much cheaper!

Gavriel Ostrow

Review of New Shallots- challenge accepted! Wow! First word that comes to my mind, just wow. Today I decided, let's change and do something different, and decided to eat at shallots no wallet barriers, here's what I found. I came in with my work-out shorts and t-shirt, something I believe few have that audacity to pull off. This didn't phase my waiter. I mean this is the best waiter I have ever had! Hands down. He's respectfull, mindful, kind, patient, sociable, and overall the ideal waiter everyone wants. His name is Christopher and I highly recommend everyone ask for him because he makes the experience more than it is. The new design of shallots is simple, and extremely elegant. They have Removed the bar and now sit you with everyone else, which makes you feel more comfortable and at home by not outing you as a cheap chump. The first dish I got was this sushi which was really good. I think it's called fugomati. I ordered the chefs special. The artsi design just says wow! At first it will throw you off because usually a steak is flat cut but this was in a square design, regrettably some parts of the steak were dry but the sauce that it came with cured it immediately. I asked for medium rare and it was more done then rare. Still it was delicious and perfect. The potatoes and asparagus were on point and well worth it. While I was eating there was a birthday there, and they brought out this amazing dessert ART. Looked like art. With candles and all that just impressed me even more. And when I finally got to my brownie ala mode. Seriously, no contest. I couldn't tell if it was dairy or not. Just really out there, amazing. Thanks shallots for making my evening dinner a real experience! Way to go!

Nathaniel Yankelev

For years I have heard how great this place is but honestly was disappointed. Ambience is great, but service is lacking, food did not measure up to the sky high prices. The fish on crackers was great though.

Kaitlyn Long

Shallots is a favorite of mine. The ambiance is fine dining: white tablecloths, cloth napkins, beautiful decor. The staff are courteous and professional. The food is delicious. The menu has a great selection of classic French style dishes with modern taste in mind.

Eitana Near

Delicious food. Wonderful ambience. Fresh fish. Love the poke bowl and chicken Caesar wrap.

Lion Cage

One of the best kosher restaurants anywhere

Benny Weiss

OMG, by far the best food that I ever had.

Ben Regional Director of Maintenance

the food was amazing, but sadly i was told that the bread was yoshon and after my meal i found out it was not.

BARTON APLEBAUM

Upscale kosher dining for the larger Jewish community

Yossi Spira

Very good food.

Sara F

It was really good just we asked for medium steak and gave us a rear but all the rest of food great sushi amazing

East Coast Framers

Everything was ridiculously good

אשריאל אשוש

(Translated by Google) A very tasty burger !! Food is invested (Original) המבורגר טעים מאודדדד!! אוכל מושקע

Rabbi Braun

Used to be good. Now way over priced ($500 for 4), and never has wine in stock. Get ready for 4 wine selection all over $100 per bottle. Not worth it.

Joe K.

One of the best Kosher restaurants in the USA!

a gussen

Best kosher in the Chicago area

Moses Cohen

Pricy but worth every penny!

Beth Kirshner

The food was delicious, but I was very disappointed with the service on two different levels. The restaurant's marketing and prices indicate that this should be an exclusive dining experience, but they do not deliver on that expectation.

Joseph Schwartz

Great food and great service

shmuel finkelstein

Excellent

Simone Kamish

wow I love this place so great!! awesome waiters food is good !!!

Jerald Baronofsky

Great food and service

David Hirschorn

I have gone to Shallot's every year pretty much for the past 9 years because the big radiology meeting is in Chicago every year after Thanksgiving, so I have seen the restaurant change over the years. This year I was blown away with the changes. If you haven't been to Shallots since they changed chefs in the past year, then you haven't seen what they have now on the menu. There is no comparison. The sushi is **AMAZING**!! I mean I have eaten the best sushi in the NYC area from Sushi Metsuyan, China Glatt and Prime Grill, (and Fumio in Livingston) and in my opinion this is at the absolute top, on par with the very best. I found it no more pricey than the best NYC restaurants, and well worth it. Service and ambience were lovely, a great place to bring business dinners. The rest of the meat menu looked tantalizing, but the sushi was so good and so varied I chose to eat only sushi. My friends' steaks looked absolutely awesome, though. The spider sushi flambe was spectacular in both taste and presentation. The Japanese nachos were very tasty and interesting, unlike anything I've ever tasted, and I am a fan of unique dishes. Desserts were great. Even the tea was great, the way they serve it in individual teapots which they refill. Hard to imagine a fancier menu than what they now have. I can't wait to go back. Used to be I could never get any kosher sushi in Chicago, now they have some of the best anywhere. Even if you are not a sushi lover like me, the meat and fish dishes are really varied and intricate, and impressive. This restaurant is not overpriced, it is on par with regular expensive restaurants and the quality far exceeds the price in my opinion. Go ahead and treat yourself once in a while, it is well worth it.

Al Cohen

Super food, great service, but by all means be prepared to PAY for it ! !

Jonathan Stoltze

Good food but expensive.

Mike Donovan

One of the best kosher restaurants in the world.

Miriam Landau

Delicious and large portions. Get the short ribs.

jacob blech

We ordered the beef carapace and the tempura asparagus for appetizers and schezuan chicken and natural prime steak for entree the beef carapace was amazing and the crispy asparagus had a great sauce on them an the steak was perfectly cooked and very good worth the flight from nj

Rabbi Levi Notik

Excellent kosher dining experience

Gwendoline Marsh

Absolutely love this place. Our sushi and soup appetizers came out fairly quickly, we were kept waiting an inordinate time for our main dishes. Of course it was worth the wait, each meal was fantastic. Not sure what took so long. Update: last night I stopped in to grab a sushi roll before the movies. The quality of food and service is still 5 stars. I do thoroughly enjoy Shallots. I wish it was not so very expensive.

Jenna Kend

Unbelievable steak, great wine list. Very happy with the service as well. Will definitely return.

Shmuel Greiniman

Unbelievable. the perfect place ever. We celebrated a birthday here for our daughter, and it was the most perfect event possible. The flavors, the service, the beauty and the splendor, there are no words.

Michael Friedman

I got take out and wasn't able to experience the sit down dinner and ambience. The food was delicious, and was carefully and thoughtfully packed. That you shallots for delicious food and for an excellent to go experience.

Menachem Lehrfield

Wow. What an experience! 1st off, I'll begin by saying that I'm a New Yorker and have been to almost all of New York's (kosher) steakhouses... That being said, let's just say that this place outshines almost every NY joint except for maybe Reserve Cut which is probably unanimously the holy grail for kosher beef. The aesthetic at Shallots is elegant and chic, yet so cozy and laidback. It was truly refreshing coming from NYC where steakhouses are usually jammed and noisy etc...At Shallots, it's mostly full but there's this calm and chill vibe about the whole place. Now for the real good stuff: The food. It's simply delectable. Delicious dishes with a huge variety, all cooked to perfection. The sweetbreads are also awesome! And a huge plus is that the portions are so generous. You really get your bang for your buck. Desserts were also very tasty and funky looking. The service is impeccable too. Staff is super friendly and attentive. Douglas the manager is a delightful guy, that walks around making sure everyone is happy. We enjoyed a lovely chat with him about kosher cuisine and he was super knowledgeable about the whole industry in general...A must-go if you're in Chicago for a visit. It's not cheap, but hey, neither is a Mercedes. ;) Also, remember that kosher restaurants must charge more money simply because 1) Kosher meat is much more expensive 2) They need to have a full time "mashgiach" ensuring that all the food and ingredients are kosher in accordance to all the proper guidelines.

E S

Best food and very nice environment

M Zim

Great food. Went for restaurant week. Thank you for participating in it.

Itchie Peretz

Overated

Heather Warren

The meat and fish dishes are really delicious and the customer service is also wonderful I recommend this place highly!

Lp Horowitz

Hands down THE BEST kosher restaurant in Chicago. Food is delicious and staff is friendly. Lots of parking.

Ash S

Very expensive but well worth the food if you can afford it. Service is good.

Daniel Miller

Amazing, as always!

Rauvan Averick

I had the ribs and rice pilaf, she had sea bass. They were both absolutely delicious. be aware, this place is somewhat expensive. The ambiance is very nice however. The wait staff was very polite and attentive.

Kuti Aloni

Yummy but expensive

Joe S

Good food and service, prices high but not outrageous for the upscale offerings

Ruchy Klein

Love the place!! Great customer service, friendly cozy atmosphere and amazing food.

akiva bachrach

amazing food, sometimes overpriced though. very nice decor and ambience, but long waits for service and food

Jeff Schankerman

No gluten-free choices other than ordering a $20 sandwich and skipping the bun? Really?

Igor Trilisky

Excellent service and food

Eliezer Sneiderman

Had a great meal. Steaks were really excellent and the other menu items are creative. Not expensive for what you get

noodsandstroods

Very high end but the food is worth the price. Nice and romantic setting.

uriel ohana

perfect attention and delicious food!!

Daniel Eleff

One of the finest kosher restaurants in the world with world class sushi, steaks, and dessert.

Yakov

Amazing food

Sarah Rut Sousa - Dulin

Good service.

יוסי מזרחי הרב

(Translated by Google) Quality place. (Original) מקום איכותי.

riki dolinsky

The best kosher restaurant in Chicago for sure!! A beautiful place!! delicious food and great service!! I Recommend on their meats and sushi