The Italian Village

Name: The Italian Village
Cuisine Type: Italian
Address: 71 W. Monroe St, Chicago, IL 60603
Phone: 312.332.7005
Web Site: http://www.italianvillage-chicago.com/
Hours of Operation: Monday to Thursday 11am to midnight
Friday and Saturday 11am to 1am
Sunday noon to midnight
Reservations: Reservations suggested
Payment Methods: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Diners Club
Best Known For – chicken marsala, Veal cutlet parmigiana
Cost / Price – $13 to $24

The Italian Village Restaurant Chicago Review:
This traditional Italian restaurant serving authentic delicacies is truly a landmark in Chicago. Designed to look like a replica of a small Italian town, The Italian Village restaurant in Chicago offers a warm and a cozy ambiance to enjoy an absolutely fabulous meal. It tries to incorporate the tradition of spending time with family and friends over hearty meals by creating a different seating arrangement of booths rather than just laying out rows of tables.

At the Italian Village restaurant in Chicago, the menu boasts quite an impressive range of delicacies that cover different types of pastas, seafood, pizzas, panini, salads and chicken and veal dishes. In starters there is the famous chicken broth, garlic bread, shrimp casalinga, minestrone soup and Italian antipasto.

The Italian antipasto is a platter of Italian meats, cheese, vegetables and shrimp. In salads, the options are quite the regular ones such as Caesar salad, seafood salad and the grilled chicken salad.

At the Italian Village restaurant, panini is made out of Italian bread and also available in some interesting combinations that include Italian meatball sandwich, sausage sandwich parmigiana and chicken breast sandwich.

Pizza is a favorite with most and the Italian Village restaurant in Chicago serves the popular thincurst cheese pizza on which additional ingredients such as sausage, bacon, ham, pepperoni, green pepper, tomato, spinach, mushroom, broccoli etc can be added.

At the Italian Village restaurant, the main entrees include a choice of mixed green salad or soup. In chicken, you can order chicken marsala, which includes chicken breast sautéed in fresh mushrooms and mostacciolli and Marsala wine. Chicken rotolini is a preparation of chicken with sage, sausage and prosciutto in a mushroom sherry wine sauce and served with fettuccine pasta.

Seafood lovers can choose the preparation of shrimp and broccoli served with olive oil and garlic. Seafood ravioli is also quite a specialty that is stuffed with blended seafood and served with scallops and shrimp in a creamy tomato sauce.

At the Italian Village restaurant, those who believe that Italian means pasta can choose lasagne, cheese tortelli or fettuccine alfredo while those who can’t do without their meat dishes can opt for the special New York strip steak, broiled Italian sausage or pork chops. This extensive range of culinary delights are sure to impress even the most discerning of guests and make them come back and again at the Italian Village restaurant in Chicago.

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