Kasama Chicago

Kasama sits on the corner of Winchester Avenue in Chicago. It holds a Michelin star, is listed in the 2025 Food & Wine top 20, and holds the talent of the year award from La Liste. The room runs smart, serving a fusion of modern South East Asian flavours that sets it apart from the more traditional menus found elsewhere in the city.

Choosing Kasama over the surrounding options is a rejection of the city’s standard fine-dining tropes. While other venues in the Wicker Park area lean into a formal, predictable rhythm, the cooking here remains aggressively creative and unmoored from expectation. It is a ten-minute walk from the Milwaukee Avenue shopping strip, placing it close enough to the action for convenience but far enough to avoid the repetitive tropes of the neighbourhood’s long-standing dinner spots.