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Deerfield Italian Kitchen

Super GemDowntown Deerfield · Italian Community-sourced, unverified
📍 648 Deerfield Rd, Deerfield, IL 60015

Deerfield Italian Kitchen has been doing the same honest, red-sauce-forward Italian cooking on Deerfield Road since 1986, and it's now in its third generation of family ownership — the kind of tenure that turns a restaurant into an actual neighborhood institution rather than just another place to eat.

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A third-generation, family-run Deerfield Italian kitchen since 1986 — homemade pastas, Chicken Marsala, and a Kitchen Special Pizza regulars have ordered for decades.

The menu doesn't chase trends: homemade pastas, Chicken Parmigiana and Chicken Marsala, a lasagna that regulars order on autopilot, and a seafood lineup (Linguine Pescatore, scallops, lobster and crab ravioli) that goes further than a typical red-sauce joint usually bothers to. The Kitchen Special Pizza gets its own following too. It's closed Mondays and Tuesdays, open the rest of the week for dine-in, carryout, delivery, and catering, with party pans available for office lunches and family events.

No discount or happy-hour deal exists here — the pitch has never needed one. Four decades of consistency, run by the same family the whole way through, is the actual draw.

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Hours

Mon-TueClosed; Wed-Sat 3-9 PM; Sun 3-8 PM
🥡 Takeout unconfirmed 📞 847-945-2727

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❔Takeout: unverified
❔Wheelchair access: unverified

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