Spring Restaurant in Chicago: Asian Fusion, Impeccably Elegant

If you're looking for a top dining experience in Chicago, you may want to try Spring Restaurant, at 2039 W North Avenue. (http://www.springrestaurant.net/) Spring is located in the Wicker Park Neighborhood of Chicago, easily visited by taking the Blueline to the Damen stop, or the North Avenue, Damen or Milwaukee buses. Valet Parking is also available. Keep in mind that this is one of the most popular fine-dining restaurants in Chicago, you will have to make reservations most of the time to get a seat.

Spring Restaurant is located in building that was originally a Turkish Bath House and features a low-key and stylish atmosphere. It's elegant and sophisticated urban dining with a focus on Asian fusion. Expect to find flavors from Korea, Japan, China, and other Asian culinary staples, with hints of Provencal and Italian cooking. It's delicious, nourishing and spontaneous food; you'll be amused and surprised at the ways they can turn a typical Asian dish into something unique and amazing.

The philosophy of dining at Spring focuses on simple elegance. This is a restaurant where you might want to bring your parents for a birthday, it's a mature restaurant for stylish urbanites, but not too pretentious. There's a delicate balance at Spring; it's as if you're dining in the home of a wealthy and cultured family.

You can sometimes see local celebrities dining at Spring, along with business people - it's a good choice to entertain a corporate party for management, but not quite the 'pinky-drinkers', it's elegant but always friendly.

Service is provided by a polite and sensitive wait-staff, these are professional waiters and waitresses. Ask the waitstaff their favorite dishes, they will give you a good idea of what they like to eat on the menu.

Spring's seafood dishes are top-notch. Lobster-stuffed wontons, toasted cashews, cod with black beans over roasted cauliflower, pacific hamachi sashimi, kushi oysters with carrot and spicy caviar, prawns and wild mushrooms, brazed scallops, and many other seafood creations are the hallmark of Spring. You'll have to check the menu; if you love seafood, you'll find something to whet your taste-buds.

The desert menu demonstrates an unambiguous lust for cakes and sugary confections; the diner with a sweet tooth will want to sample many of the items on the desert list. Some examples, to whet your sweet tooth: mustard-leaf ice cream with butter toffee, intense chocolate mousse, quinoa pound cake with apricot compote and ginger ice cream

There is also a wonderful wine selection with recommended wine accompaniments to the entree and appetizer. Expect to find the best wines and drinks such as Puligny-Montrache, Jean-Marc Burgaud, for deserts Moscato Rosato. Expect prices that accompany those fine wines.

Spring dining costs an average of $30-$70 dollars per person, not including drinks; this is high-quality fare, expect to pay the price for top-notch service and food.

For an experience that goes above and beyond your every-day restaurant dining, give Spring a taste - there's a reason why it's listed consistently in the top restaurants of Chicago. If you want to visit Spring, ideally bring a full wallet - it's expensive fare, this is high fashion in the form of dining.