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RPM Italian

DrinkRiver North · Italian Community-sourced, unverified
📍 52 W Illinois St, Chicago, IL 60654

RPM Italian doesn't need the Bill and Giuliana Rancic backstory to earn its spot in River North — though it's worth knowing Lettuce Entertain You built this one with the celebrity couple and chef Doug Psaltis, because the pasta program is the actual reason people keep coming back.

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Mama DePandi's Pomodoro anchors a rotating lineup of more than a dozen daily housemade pastas — ask what's fresh that day rather than defaulting to the menu's safest pick.

More than a dozen housemade pastas rotate through daily, anchored by Mama DePandi's Pomodoro — a family recipe, not a marketing line — so ask what's running that day instead of defaulting to whatever's safest on the printed menu. The dining room leans loud and see-and-be-seen, four private rooms deep, with cocktails designed by Lettuce's own director of cocktail development.

The real move is showing up to the bar on a weekday between 4 and 6: $8 gets you wine by the glass, cicchetti like smoked-scamorza arancini, and a rotating list of signature cocktails including the fruit-forward RPM Spritz. It's not a secret — OpenTable diners have left over 12,000 reviews averaging 4.7 — but the happy hour crowd still thins out noticeably once 6pm hits and the full-price menu kicks back in.

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RPM Italian

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Happy Hour · $8.00
River North4PM–6PMCommunity

Hours

Mon-Frilunch & dinner
Happy Hour Mon-Fri 4-6PM at the bar
📅 Reserve on OpenTable 🥡 Takeout unconfirmed 📞 (312) 222-1888

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📅Reservations accepted
❔Takeout: unverified
❔Wheelchair access: unverified

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