Best Date Night Restaurants in Merrillville, IN

Amazing food, the service in the end was very good but I feel like they rushed us in the beginning in selecting our food. And At the price point of the restaurant they should have offered us a sommelier from the beginning when they saw we had an interest in wine. I asked for the sommelier but he never came and then I had ti ask again so there was a delay in getting our wine paired with the appetizers. I feel like the staff is very young and need more communication and coordination for the type of restaurant. But I was So happy with the food it made up for everything.

Pizza Portofino went above and beyond for our family visiting Chicago from Ohio. We mistakenly did not consider the time change booking the reservation at home for 4:00pm arriving to Chicago looking for my reservation and it said 5:00pm. They did not even hesitate to help our party get seated within 10 minutes service amazing food with excellent service and we were out of there to get to our show in time. I can’t thank them enough for saving our amazing dinner at a restaurant. We visited several times now while we’re in Chicago. Will tell others about this amazing restaurant and be back when we visit again.

We had a 7:15 reservation and were told to wait at the bar for our table. We waited for about 30 minutes at the bar and checked back in at the host desk - Sam apologized for the delay and offered us a free round of champagne and a few appetizers to get us started at the bar. Once we were seated, the service was very quick and attentive. We had the calamari, spinach & artichoke dip, fries, artichoke, burrata as starters. Everything was amazing! The star of the show was the complimentary dessert Sam sent - the lemon butter cake. We all agreed it was the best dessert we've ever tried. Loved our experience and thank you to Sam for making our experience better!

We always have a great time here. The staff is extremely friendly and the food was delicious.

Chicken and waffles were the best ones I've ever had, the burger with the gold flakes was also really cool. Drinks were great and our server was lovely. Our only "complaint" is that they didn't have gluten free toast available which is no big deal but would be a nice addition to the brunch menu. But we were 110% satisfied