Is Monteverde worth it on a budget?
DependsOn a budget
Monteverde can strain a tight budget. Go only when it is a priority.
$$$ — mid-to-upper, pasta-forward
Warm, polished, and centered on handmade pasta you can watch being rolled. A reliably excellent special-occasion-lite room that doesn't tip into stuffy.
- Price
- $$$ — 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