Is Monteverde worth it for a romantic trip?
DependsFor couples in love
Monteverde offers some romance, but not enough to make it the reason to go.
Warm, polished, and centered on handmade pasta you can watch being rolled. A reliably excellent special-occasion-lite room that doesn't tip into stuffy.
- Price
- $$$ — mid-to-upper, pasta-forward
- Time
- 1.5–2 hours
- Last verified
- 2026-06-17
Is Monteverde worth it…
How we verified
- Chef-owner Sarah Grueneberg won the James Beard Award for Best Chef: Great Lakes in 2017; Monteverde opened in the West Loop in 2015 · finedininglovers.com
- Signature cacio whey pepe uses fusilloni with pecorino and lemon-ricotta whey, with whey replacing water in the dough; pasta is made in an open pastificio · blog.resy.com
- Supporting source · guide.michelin.com