Upmarket restaurant serving traditional Italian cuisine amid stylish surroundings. Based on 209 reviews, the restaurant has received a rating of 4.4 stars. Price
✔️ Dine-in ✔️ No delivery
Address:
1133 W Randolph St, Chicago, IL 60607
Phone: (773) 672-8955
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Hours
| Sunday | Closed |
| Monday
(Labor Day)
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5–9:30 PM
Holiday hours
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| Tuesday | 5–11 PM |
| Wednesday | 5–11 PM |
| Thursday | 5–11 PM |
| Friday | 5–11 PM |
| Saturday | 5–11 PM |
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Reservations: resy.com
Reviews
Yevette Brown
Chicago’s Randolph street corridor is one of my favorite areas to eat. There’s a wonderful
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Juan Diaz
This is the kind of places that you fell in love with, extraordinary people, amazing Italian food, just perfect. Pasta was delightful! I deeply recommend this unique restaurant, It’s now my favorite place in West loop, my home, for sure.
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David Zeledon
Great ambiance, drinks, apps, entrees and deserts. The zucchini pasta with strip steak was a wonderful combo. Cheers to them.
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Raffaele Signa
I went in to celebrate my friend’s birthday. We were a larger group and we’re seated in an orderly fashion which was appreciated. I ordered an amaretto sour which was pretty decent, however, nowhere near the best I’ve ever had. Once the rest of the party arrived, we had to wait a kinda awkward amount of time before our orders were taken. We had to ask for bread for the table and we’re each given a single slice on our plate. My appetizer arrived and I was honestly confused. I ordered the buffalina and the description made it seem like something completely different from what I got. It essentially was a gutted tomato filled with flavorless buffalo mozzarella sitting on a bed of pesto. When I got visit my family in Italy, we always have Buffalo mozzarella and it has a distinct, strong taste that this alleged mozzarella did not. I digress… next came our pasta dishes. I need to emphasize the point that if you’re going to call yourself an Italian restaurant, one of the main things you should be able to do is a pasta dish. I ordered the cacio e pepe and was honestly disappointed with not only the flavor but the portion size. The pasta was quite bland and the portion size was ridiculous. Italian food (and like I said, I am Italian and go to Italy regularly to see my family) is made with love and care and flavor and this was nothing of the sorts. The general consensus of the table after we all ate was we were all still so hungry and quite frankly disappointed. Finally, when it was time to pay, we were informed there was only one check per table but it could be split with different cards. However, when we tried to do that initially, it seemed to irritate the maitre d’ and he left us just sitting there awkwardly while the rest of the wait staff were busy closing up the restaurant around us. I finally put everything on my card and had everyone send me the money for it. Overall, we spent $500 as a group and honestly were disappointed by our experience. And they do valet which was fine I guess, but $15 for them to drive my car around the block and park in front of the restaurant when some members of the party parked across the street for free is a little bit much…and there isn’t any change given back (FYI). I’d say this establishment is a one time deal for me and there are way more authentic Italian restaurants that won’t charge half a band for quadruple the amount of food ♂️
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Brendan Minot
If you are a fan of classic italian dishes than this one is for you. Excellent pasta dishes that are true to their roots and executed perfectly. Each dish has only the freshest ingredients that are complimented by time tested recipes. The food and menu are flawless, which is also it’s weakness. At the high price points, one has to ask is a perfect cacio e pepe worth 26 dollars. (And I mean perfect…) I cannot answer that one for you, but I can say is that you will not have anything new or memorable at gioia. With exciting restaurants around the corner, (rosemary is croatian, but they share a border) Gioia feels like it is still stuck in the 90s. A safe solid spot in a very competitive market.
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Marina Kozhina
Best tartar in town! Martin was a great bar host! Had a wonderful time. Will be back to try out more of a new menu options.
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Scott Schenkelberg
We booked a reservation for Gioia a few weeks prior to our dinner. We were greeted upon arrival and sat after a few minutes of waiting. The restaurant was quite full at 7 pm on a Saturday.
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danicajhey
Wow! What a treat! Creative and delicious Italian food. Impeccable service. Be sure to enjoy an Old-Fashioned at the bar made by bartender Martin.
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The Windy City
Our dinner was very good, however we were slighted on the evening we were here because one particular family near us seemed to get constant attention from the staff. pmPossibly regulars? But it cut our service back In that our course was late and cold, & water service lacked considerably.
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C
Wonderful experience tonight! The food was simply delicious. The squid pasta w lobster was my favorite. Service was excellent and very attentive. Thank you for another great night!
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