Le Bouchon is a quaint French restaurant that’s the epitome of what we want a quaint French restaurant to be. The small dining room is cozy with dates and regulars (OK, maybe a little cramped), and its bar is just-big-enough for a few diners going stag. The staff is so casual and friendly that you might even get invited to a server’s comedy show, and there’s enough artwork with words like “à toute heure” to convince you that Bucktown was dropped in the middle of Paris. Of course, this all means nothing without good food. Luckily, Le Bouchon’s dishes could make best friends out of Jets and Sharks, Bears and Packers fans, Drake and Kendrick—you get the point. As soon as we get a reservation here, we immediately start thinking about swan-diving into a cheese-covered ramekin full of French onion soup, followed by some garlicky escargot. The mussels soaking in an herbaceous, buttery sauce and steak frites are also excellent classics—you’ll want to dip the fries in some of that sauce. The rotating specials are great too, and also why we schedule dinners here more regularly than doctor's appointments. So, chances are, anything that catches your eye at Le Bouchon won’t disappoint.