• Cuisine: Seafood
  • Price: $$$$$
  • Meals: Dinner
  • Mood: Formal
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L2O

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A Modern Seafood Restaurant

Chef Laurent Gras – formerly of the great French restaurants of Alain Ducasse, Guy Savoy, Jacques Maximin, and Alain Senderens – left those places to operate his own celebrated New York and San Francisco restaurants.

He left them behind for the opportunity to build his ideal restaurant from the ground up. Enter L2O, his love, his laboratory, his playground. Here are brought the world's finest obtainable seafood, meats, poultry, and produce from suppliers Chef Gras sought out in his worldwide travels. What emerges from his kitchen are the dishes that define his restaurant: surprising to the eye and titillating to the palate. A parade of unexpected textures and unimagined combinations, they are experiences unique to this restaurant.

Playfully imbued with discovery and delight, Laurent Gras' cuisine may not change your life, but it will unquestionably enhance it, while expanding your ideas of what great dining is about.

L2O named “Restaurant of the Year” in the annual list of the 20 Best New Restaurants

– John Mariani, Esquire Magazine

Locations

  • L2O - Lincoln Park

    L2O - Lincoln Park

    Chicago, Lincoln Park
    Belden-Stratford Hotel
    2300 N. Lincoln Park Avenue
    Chicago, IL
    60614

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    • Phone:
      (773) 868-0002

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    • Restaurant
      Mon 6:00pm-11:00pm
      Wed-Th 6:00pm-10:00pm
      Fri-Sat 5:00pm-11:00pm
      Sun 5:00pm-9:00pm

Events & Promotions

  • January 26, 2009

    L2O Welcomes Sake Expert

    Help us welcome celebrated sake expert, Eric Swanson, to the Windy City. With a case or two of rare sakes in tow, Eric will be making the move from sunny Las Vegas to wintry Chicago in the hopes of warming our souls with this delightful Japanese import. Chef Laurent Gras has created a Japanese-inspired menu designed to showcase the intriguing and delicate flavors of sake. Sit with Eric as he shares his endless knowledge of sake, its history, its impact on Japanese culture and its movement into the Western world.
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In the News

  • October 9, 2008

    L2O Named 2008 Esquire "Restaurant of the Year"

    CHICAGO, IL (October 9, 2008)–Esquire magazine names L2O (pronounced el-two-oh) in Chicago’s Lincoln Park neighborhood “Restaurant of the Year” in its annual list of the 20 Best New...
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  • August 8, 2008

    L2O-The Elements of Dining

    Richard Melman, Chairman of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises®, and Chef Laurent Gras have teamed up to open L2O (pronounced el-two-oh), a modern seafood restaurant in a historic building in the...
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  • July 30, 2008

    L2O captures 4 stars

    Chicago Tribune Restaurant Critic Phil Vettel reviews Chef Laurant Gras' L20.
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  • July 27, 2008

    Symbol of Excellence

    Restaurant Critic for Chicago Sun-Times, Pat Bruno gives his take on the L2O experience.
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  • June 2, 2008

    Restaurant Review, L2O

    Time Out Chicago's David Tamarkin take his first look at L2O, check out his reaction and why he said..."Chicago’s sleekest new restaurant is also its most memorable."
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