Name: Le Colonial - Chicago
Address: 57 E Oak St, Chicago, IL, 60611
Telephone: (312) 255-0088
Price range: $$$

Le Colonial - Chicago

DrinkGold Coast · Vietnamese Community-sourced, unverified

📍 57 E Oak St, Chicago, IL 60611

Le Colonial sells a specific fantasy — 1920s French colonial Vietnam, shuttered windows, ceiling fans, palm fronds — and then backs it up with food good enough that the room doesn't have to do all the work.

$$$

The crispy whole red snapper in spicy garlic glaze is the restaurant's own headline dish, served inside a 1920s French colonial Vietnam-themed dining room on Oak Street.

The crispy whole red snapper, finished in a spicy garlic glaze with fresh peppers and scallions, is the dish the restaurant's own marketing leads with, and it's the one worth ordering if the table is sharing just one showstopper. On Oak Street in the heart of the Gold Coast, the restaurant draws the kind of special-occasion crowd its 'romantic and luxurious' reputation attracts, business-casual dress code and all.

The real insider move is the Saigon Social happy hour — specially priced cocktails and wine, weekdays 3 to 6pm, but only in the Lounge and Lounge Bar, not the main dining room, so know to ask for that section specifically. An 8,585-review, 4.8-rating OpenTable record is a genuinely hard thing to sustain this consistently, and it tracks with a restaurant that's expanded carefully to other cities rather than chasing scale for its own sake.

Hours

Daily12PM-10PM

Saigon Social Happy Hour Mon-Fri 3-6PM (Lounge only)

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Amenities & accessibility

📅Reservations accepted

❔Takeout: unverified

❔Wheelchair access: unverified

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Le Colonial - Chicago

Le Colonial sells a specific fantasy — 1920s French colonial Vietnam, shuttered windows, ceiling fans, palm fronds — and then backs it up with food good enough that the room doesn't have to do all the work.

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