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La Barra - Riverside

Iconic/NotableDowntown Riverside · Italian Community-sourced, unverified
📍 2 E Burlington St, Riverside, IL 60546

La Barra gives downtown Riverside's small restaurant row a genuine Italian-small-plates specialist, owned and run by Mary and Pat Leone rather than a restaurant group.

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A Leone-family-owned Italian small-plates restaurant in downtown Riverside with award-winning pizza, a 4.7 rating, and a private dining room plus patio.

The pizza has picked up real awards, not just customer praise, and the shareable-plates format — paired with hand-crafted cocktails and a real wine list — makes it a different kind of night out than a standard entree-and-done Italian dinner. A private dining room and outdoor patio round out a space reviewers consistently call genuinely beautiful.

Sitting almost directly across the street from The Chew Chew, Riverside's other acclaimed restaurant, it's part of what's made this stretch of Burlington Street a real destination block rather than one standout surrounded by nothing.

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Hours

Tue-Fri4PM-11PM
Sat12PM-11PM
Sun12PM-9PM
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📅 Takes reservations 🥡 Takeout unconfirmed 📞 (708) 887-7700

Amenities & accessibility

📅Reservations accepted
❔Takeout: unverified
❔Wheelchair access: unverified
☀️Outdoor seating available

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