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No. 27 in the world · November 2026

Bavette's Bar & Boeuf

218 West Kinzie Street, River North · Chicago, United States

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The cut to order

Steak frites, or the short rib stroganoff

Getting a table: Book; the bar takes walk-ins.

A dark, speakeasy-style room, in our Chicago guide; No. 14 in North America in 2025 and No. 4 on Marrow's Best Steakhouses of America (Fall 2026).

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Why it's here: Our city guide · robbreport.com · beststeakhouseamerica.com

Make it at home

The steakhouse porterhouse, with creamed spinach

The steakhouse porterhouse, with creamed spinach

1 hour 15 minutes, plus 1 to 24 hours salting · Serves 2 to 3. How New York's old steakhouses do it at home: a thick porterhouse salted ahead, seared hard in cast iron, finished in a hot oven, rested, sliced off the bone and sent back to the table sizzling in butter, with the creamed spinach every steakhouse puts beside it.

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Checked November 13, 2026. Hours and booking rules change; check with the restaurant before you go.

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