I would never have expected one of the most enjoyable Italian restaurant experiences I've had in Chicago to take place inside Symphony Center.

Yet there I sat in Tesori, digging into wood-grilled octopus on a bed of smoky cannellini beans with pancetta, looking around to find not the senior set you might expect, but a diverse crowd of people who all seemed as happy to be there as I was. This, in the culinary wasteland of the Loop, in a prime location right across from the Art Institute no less? No wonder they named it Tesori (in Italian, "treasures").

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