For the Esquire Magazine, “Best New Restaurants in America List” for 2020, two Chicago restaurants were noted to be the best among all.
Kevin Sintumuang, Esquire’s culture-and-lifestyle director, traveled with his family around the U.S. during quarantine and ranked two Chicago restaurants as the best spots.
As per the magazine, for a combination of seafood flavors from Portugal and Spain, Porto, located at 1600 W. Chicago Ave., was recognized as one of the best new restaurants.
One of its specialties is “pasta do mar,” it is made of Spanish seaweed as noodles and carabineros shrimp in olive oil, said Gordinier. He added the nori ice cream includes candied sea lettuce.
Esquire’s Jeff Gordinier wrote “You’ll find some familiar items on the menu—like conservas served on toast—but it’s the cheeky, more cerebral dishes where chef Marcos Campos excels. It’s a sideways approach to the coastal region, but that’s the fun of it,” he said.
Apart from this, Bridgeport’s Pizza, Fried Chicken, Ice Cream restaurant was also picked as a top new spot and it had equally lip-smacking and dishes.
Further the magazine mentioned details about the secret pop-up spot, the Korean-style fried chicken and the Chicago brand Pretty Cool Ice Cream for dessert.
