Name: Francesco's Hole in the Wall
Address: 254 Skokie Blvd, Northbrook, IL, 60062
Telephone: (847) 272-0155
Price range: $$

Francesco's Hole in the Wall

Iconic/NotableNorthbrook (suburb) · Italian Community-sourced, unverified

📍 254 Skokie Blvd, Northbrook, IL 60062

There's no printed menu at Francesco's because there's never been one -- Frank Gallo and his father built the place over 40 years ago (1982) on the idea that a whiteboard listing what's actually fresh that day beats a laminated page promising the same twelve dishes year-round.

The restaurant's own site still frames it as a trattoria built to share their love of cooking in a fun, welcoming space, and some of the original regulars from the opening era are still coming in. It sits in Northbrook, roughly 25 miles north of the city near the Lake Michigan shoreline, in a cozy, rustic dining room with patio seating for warmer months -- intimate rather than polished, which is the point.

The slow-simmered marinara, made from imported Italian tomatoes, became popular enough with customers to land on local grocery shelves starting in 2024, a sauce good enough that people wanted to take it home rather than just order it on pasta.

Hours

Mon11:30AM-2PM,5-8:30PM

TueClosed

Wed-Thu11:30AM-2PM,5-8:30PM

Fri11:30AM-2:15PM,5-9:30PM

Sat5-9:30PM

Sun4-8:30PM

🥡 Takeout unconfirmed 📞 (847) 272-0155

Amenities & accessibility

❔Takeout: unverified

❔Wheelchair access: unverified

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Francesco's Hole in the Wall

There's no printed menu at Francesco's because there's never been one -- Frank Gallo and his father built the place over 40 years ago (1982) on the idea that a whiteboard listing what's actually fresh that day beats a laminated page promising the same twelve dishes year-round.

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