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3rd Coast Cafe

Super GemGold Coast · American Community-sourced, unverified
📍 1260 N Dearborn Pkwy, Chicago, IL 60610

3rd Coast Cafe has been serving the corner of Dearborn and Goethe since 1985, which in a neighborhood that's seen its share of turnover makes it something closer to a fixture than a restaurant.

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All-day breakfast built on 'free bird' chicken and farm-fresh eggs, running since 1985 at Dearborn and Goethe — open until midnight, with a boutique wine list most breakfast spots don't bother with.

Breakfast runs all day, every day, built on 'free bird' chicken, farm-fresh eggs, and Angus prime beef — the kind of sourcing language that would read as marketing copy anywhere else but here reads as just how the kitchen has always worked. The menu shifts at night into fresh seafood, steaks, and vegan options alongside the salads and sandwiches that carry the daytime crowd, backed by a boutique wine list and full bar that earns the 'cafe and wine bar' half of its name.

It stays open until midnight, longer than most breakfast spots bother to, which makes it as legitimate a late dinner option as a morning one. There's no flashy happy hour or headline special here — just four decades of actually being good at the basics, in a Gold Coast that doesn't have many restaurants that can say the same.

Specials at 3rd Coast Cafe

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3rd Coast Cafe

Super Gem
All-Day 'Free Bird' Chicken Breakfast
Gold CoastCommunity

Hours

Daily7AM-Midnight
📅 Reservations not available 🥡 Takeout unconfirmed

Amenities & accessibility

🚶Walk-in only, no reservations
❔Takeout: unverified
❔Wheelchair access: unverified
🙂Kid-friendly

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