Everest
Scaling Chicago's culinary heights with grace
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It takes a certain bravado to name a restaurant after the tallest mountain on Earth — the damning reviews would practically write themselves. Thankfully, chef Jean Joho’s Everest has scaled the culinary heights and, even after 30 years in the business, remains perched at the top of
Chicago’s fine-dining realm.
Appropriately located on the 40th floor of the Chicago Stock Exchange, its magnificent city views are a perfect companion for Joho’s highbrow Alsatian cuisine. The menu includes a filet of wild sturgeon wrapped and roasted in cured ham, and venison served with wild huckleberries and braised pear. Plates are presented elegantly and intricately — almost like a stage production. Of course, once you realize that the restaurant also provides a three-course pre-theater menu, it all starts to make sense.
But with a play or not on the evening agenda, it’s still safe to say that a night at Everest will leave you feeling, well, on top of the world.
Getting There
440 South La Salle Street, Chicago, Illinois 60605
TEL312-663-8920