Name: Quartino Ristorante
Address: 626 N State St, Chicago, IL, 60654
Telephone: (312) 698-5000
Price range: $$

Quartino Ristorante

Super GemRiver North · Italian Community-sourced, unverified

📍 626 N State St, Chicago, IL 60654

Quartino doesn't run a happy hour, doesn't chase a gimmick, and still pulls over 13,000 Google reviews at a 4.6 average — the kind of number a restaurant earns by just being consistently good for two decades, not by advertising a discount.

The veal meatballs, made with housemade ricotta and basil, are the dish regulars order on repeat — alongside a wine list built for drinking by the carafe, not just by the glass.

Gibsons Restaurant Group opened it in 2005 as the un-stuffy answer to River North's steak-and-martini scene: a loud, lived-in Italian wine bar built around shared plates, house-cured salumi, and a wine list sold by the carafe rather than the overpriced glass. The veal meatballs, built on housemade ricotta and basil, are the dish regulars actually order — not the flashiest thing on the menu, just the one people stop talking long enough to eat.

Thin-crust, Neapolitan-style pizzas and a rotating regional-Italian special board round things out, and the bar stays open until 1am most nights for whoever wants to keep the wine carafes coming. There's no formal special to flag here — Quartino earns its spot on two decades of reputation and a wine list built for actually drinking, not just looking at.

Hours

Mon-Fri11:30AM-12:30AM

Sat-Sun11AM-12:30AM

📅 Reserve on OpenTable 🥡 Takeout unconfirmed 📞 (312) 698-5000

Amenities & accessibility

📅Reservations accepted

❔Takeout: unverified

❔Wheelchair access: unverified

🅿️Valet available from 4PM

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Quartino Ristorante

Quartino doesn't run a happy hour, doesn't chase a gimmick, and still pulls over 13,000 Google reviews at a 4.6 average — the kind of number a restaurant earns by just being consistently good for two decades, not by advertising a discount.

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