Meritage Cafe & Wine Bar

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Restaurant Description: Meritage features contemporary American cuisine with food indigenous to the Pacific Northwest. Influences are drawn from France, Asia and the Far East to compliment the fare. At Meritage, casual elegance and cool comfort are de rigueur.
Price: $31 to $50
Primary Food Type: American
Neighborhood Name: CHI - Bucktown/Wicker Park

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Welcome to Meritage, Chicago premiere destination forgourmet cuisine and impeccable service. Accented by soft lighting andelegant Décor, Meritage aims to please and succeeds in doing so.The professional staff caters to its guests' every need making sure not tocut corners and only offering the finest, highest quality ingredients. Diners clamor to snare reservations at trendy American restaurants like the excellent Meritage Cafe & Wine Bar in Bucktown. A spur-of-the-moment Saturday reservation? No problemo. The setting is casual and dimly lit, the eponymous West Coast blended wines flow, and the regulars savor chef Dirk Flanigan's ingenious cooking. He marinates snails two days in olive oil, basil, and garlic, then pan-fries them crisp and puts them in goat cheese soup with melted red onions and basil oil. The nightly game plate may be grilled caribou loin in huckleberry reduction with celery root pur+â-¬e and a saut+â-¬ of Brussels sprouts, Brie, and bacon. As you finish curried ice-cream profiteroles with caramelized pineapple, fantasize that you palmed a 50-spot with the maitre d' to get such a table on short notice. The professional andfriendly staff at Meritage looks forward to making your next diningexperience truly unforgettable.



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