Press · Stampa
A short list of writers who have been kind to us. The full press kit — high-res photography, chef portraits, room shots, factsheet — is one email away.
BON APPÉTIT
October 2025
Hot 10 nominee · 2025
"Lucia Marquez is doing the most thoughtful Mediterranean cooking in the city right now. The lamb tagliatelle alone is worth the trip across town. The room hums. The pasta sings. The voice notes are a stroke of genius."
— Hot 10 Editorial Board
EATER CHICAGO
November 2024
Best New Restaurants · 2024
"A restaurant that finally treats Ukrainian Village like it deserves: with a salt-crusted branzino and a list of sherries you can actually drink. Marquez has built the rare new room that feels like it has been here twenty years."
— Maitri Mehta · Senior Editor
CHICAGO TRIBUNE
January 2025
Critic's pick · January 2025
"Three stars. The sort of neighborhood place that makes a neighborhood worth living in. Marquez cooks like she has nothing to prove and everything to feed."
— Louisa Chu · Critic-at-Large
TIME OUT CHICAGO
March 2025
50 best restaurants · 2025
"On a list dominated by old-guard temples, Ostería Marquez is the room that surprised us most. Eve Lerman writes that Marquez has solved the problem of Mediterranean restaurants in America: she stopped trying to be one country."
— Eve Lerman · Restaurant Critic
CHICAGO MAGAZINE
December 2024
Annual issue · 2024
"Number 4 of 25. The wine program from Marco Salerno deserves its own review — eighteen sherries by the glass in a city that can barely manage three."
— Penny Pollack · Dining Editor
THE INFATUATION
February 2025
9.0 / 10
"Worth waiting for the reservation. Worth bringing the parents. Worth ordering the prix-fixe and one extra plate of the iberico cheek anyway."
— Sara Bensalem
Awards · Riconoscimenti
Press kit · enquiries
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