Kith & Kin
1119 W. Webster 773-472-7070
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The principals behind Kith & Kin could’ve hyped their inviting new spot as a gastropub and earned an oxygen-depleting collective yawn. But they didn’t, and a stealthy early-December opening attracted mobs to this otherwise culinarily bereft pocket of Lincoln Park. And they haven’t let up yet.
Many others have gone this route in recent months—Longman & Eagle, the Fountainhead, Gilt Bar, to name a few—but none have done it with such casual, unpretentious consistency, from the $5 spreadable “crocks” with crostini to early-summer menu highlights like buttermilk-fried chicken thighs with green garlic-morel potato salad, tagliatelle with radish sprouts in English pea broth, and mammoth shareable whole roasted sea bass and grilled ribeye. This is the kind of irresistible place every neighborhood deserves.
