Paladar

Chicago

A good restaurant does everything it can to make you feel at home, but not at YOUR home, as you don't need anyone to create a killer sauce from ketchup and mustard for you. Fortunately, the folks behind Paladar have modeled their rum bar after the Cuban practice of restaurants being run out of a family house, decking it with their own generations-old family photos, communal tables made of old floorboards, and, in a nod to a wedding tradition, a wall of mismatched plates.

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