Cuisine:

• Sea food
• American
• Others
• Contemporary

Rivers Description:
Just a few steps from the Civic Opera House, overlooking the Chicago River, this seasonally inspired restaurant provides a pleasant setting, plenty of space and enough mahogany to give the room a clubby look. But don't read stuffy into that remark. We like to begin a meal with the fresh-as-can-be Maryland crab cakes or roasted corn soup with onion confit and red pepper cream before digging into pan-roasted grouper with smoky chipotle-butter sauce. Steaks come off nicely, as do the chunky mashed potatoes. Beyond the basics, however, there's not much happening here. Lunch becomes electric, when traders from the Mercantile Exchange descend. By contrast, though, dinners are welcomingly quiet. During opera season, dinner also is served on Sundays.


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