The Best Bars in Chicago Right Now

Chef Richard Sandoval is the man behind a constellation of 65 restaurants found across 10 states and 11 other countries. The Mexico City native has most recently staked his claim downtown at Fairmont Chicago, Millennium Park with the opening of Toro. Touted as contemporary Latin cuisine without borders, the menu celebrates the flavors from Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, Venezuela, with a cocktail list to match this blurring of geographical boundaries. Take the sunset-hued Paper Beach—a guava-infused Leblon cachaça, Aperol, Amaro Montenegro, and lime—and the Incan Goddess, made with Peruvian whiskey derived from Andean black corn plus damiana, Fee Brothers habanero bitters, Angostura bitters, and agave. Blackened steel, bronze finishings, and terra-cotta-stained tiles surround an oversized horn sculpture suspended over the bar.