| Frontera Grill | |
|---|---|
  Location in River North, Chicago  Frontera Grill (Illinois)  Frontera Grill (the United States) | |
| Restaurant information | |
| Established | 1987 |
| Owner | Rick Bayless |
| Head chef | Richard James |
| Food type | Mexican cuisine |
| Location | 445 N Clark St., Chicago, Illinois, 60654, United States |
| Coordinates | 41°53′26″N87°37′51″W / 41.890576°N 87.630803°W |
| Seating capacity | 65 |
| Other information | Phone: (312) 661-1434 |
| Website | www |
Frontera Grill is a Mexican restaurant in Chicago, Illinois. It is owned by Rick Bayless. It opened on March 21, 1987, at 445 N. Clark Street [1] in Chicago's River North neighborhood and was Bayless' first restaurant. [2] In 2011, the Chicago Sun-Times called it "a study in the art of Mexican cookery". [3]
In 1994, Frontera Grill was ranked the world's third-best casual dining restaurant by the International Herald Tribune . [4] In 2007, Frontera Grill won the James Beard Foundation's "Outstanding Restaurant" award, designating it the best restaurant in the U.S. [5]
Although Frontera Grill is not a chain, the restaurant's name brand and logo are used in several of Bayless' other restaurants including Tortas Frontera at Chicago's O'Hare airport, [6] Frontera Fresco (closed January 2020), [7] and Frontera Cocina in Disney Springs, Florida. [8] The brand and logo were also leveraged when Bayless founded his Frontera Foods line of pre-packaged foods in 1996. [9] The packaged food line was sold to Chicago food processing company ConAgra in 2016. [10]
