Chicagoans love to be comfortable. That’s why we’re into gigantic booths, pizzas you order by the pound, and whatever the opposite of a strict dress code is. So it means a lot when we say that Bar Tutto is one of the most comfortable restaurants we’ve ever been to. We're not saying that Bar Tutto is a cozy coffee shop. It's not. It's a high-ceilinged new development restaurant in Fulton Market from the Rose Mary team, open for breakfast, lunch, and dinner every day. But in the morning, this place is soaked in light from the floor-to-ceiling windows, making it a soothing place to face the Google doc of your nightmares. At lunch and dinner, the dining room doubles in size as they open up another part of the space, but it doesn’t lose its intimate charm. It’s soundproofed enough that you can hear everyone at your table, while still feeling like you’re part of a busy scene. Think of it as a large cafe with the spirit of a living room. Breakfast options range from a hearty egg sandwich on pillowy tigelle to puffy chocolate, pistachio, and berry bombolini. The lunch and dinner menu has things that aren’t necessarily inventive or surprising, but are reliably tasty—like bucatini with slow-cooked beef sugo, and a pork shank matched with apples and perfectly earthy polenta. In other words, comfort food to match the comfortable space. You could easily spend three pastry-fueled hours here on a laptop in the morning, impress out-of-town friends with the very good pastas at lunch, or host a chill dinner with your entire group chat (or a date) at night. But what makes Bar Tutto really special is that you could do all those things on the same day, in the same cushy booth, with no one else batting an eye. However you use this place, you’ll feel so at home that you could almost put your feet up (but don’t do that). We’ve had a romantic night here next to someone reading One Hundred Years Of Solitude with some fusilli and their earbuds in—a holdover from the cafe hours. Instead of being a subtle buzzkill like it would in so many other restaurants, here it just completes the scene.
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