El Che Steakhouse & Bar

Great atmosphere. Stupendous steak. Drinks are just right!

From the perfectly cooked NY strip with the smoked salt crust and the chimichurri on the side to the great drinks and fantastic service, this is an outstanding place to dine! We went for my wife's birthday and had an excellent time. Highly recommend!!

I had a small birthday dinner for 4 guest, food was great, atmosphere loved it. Service was great until we check out, we tipped our waiter $50 cash and he gave it back until he heard us say we put the remainder tip on the check. I thought that was pretty rude, we tipped him 20%. I was very disappointed cause we had been planning to visit this restaurant for days, we didn’t give him a hard time or anything. Maybe he just wasn’t interested in serving African American that day. However the food was great.

The food was AMAZING! Made to perfection! It was our first time there and our waiter was so nice and patient. His service was outstanding, we will definitely return.

No meat served from weapons here. Unless you consider plates weapons. The only thing that's killer here are the cocktails, food and possibly heart disease. Great apps - specifically the tartar was delish. NY strip was perfect and very tasty. Service was excellent for our large group on an especially busy Tuesday night. Def a more limited menu for non meat eaters.

Excelente cena la carne de primera la Langosta regular, el queso, la provo el chori y la empanada de carne muy buena

Agustina is a fabulous mixologist. She also recommended the baked oysters, which were unbelievably delicious.

I am not from Chicago but my son attends a local university there. I was planning a visit to celebrate his birthday and saw this restaurant featured on Sunday Morning (CBS). I was intrigued by the news story and decided to take him there for a special celebration. My son and I absolutely love steak houses and go to one any time we visit a new city. We were excited to try El Che as I had shared the news feature with him. So, I made a reservation for four guests. We were greeted and were sat fairly quickly. Our waiter asked for our drink order. We ordered 2 glasses of wine and 2 waters. After that it went down hill. I now conclude that our waiter must not have been impressed with our drink order because he was rarely coming to our table. There were 2 sommeliers that kept coming by to ask if we wanted anything else to drink, but, not our waiter. We got his attention for our appetizer. We ordered 4 empanadas. They were edible, nothing extra special. We waved him down again, mind you he also had an assistant or young lady he was training and neither person was attentive. We ordered 2 appetizers, 2 salads and 3 different steaks. One person ordered a steak at medium rare another was medium and mine was medium well. Now, if I am going to a steak house were all they do is steaks, I expect them to know how to cook them correctly. The medium rare and medium steaks were not cooked correctly. The medium rare was very over cooked and the medium was almost rare. We could never flag down our waiter because he spent all his time with the other 2 tables that were ordering several bottles of wine. I imagine he thought that was a better check/tip for him. We started to look at how much time he was spending talking with the other tables, it was well over 30 mins of conversation about the history of the restaurant, wines and other things. Yes, I know this because I was that close where I could hear the conversation with the other tables yet, he never bothered to ask us if our order was correct or if we needed anything else. It's like we didn't have a waiter. We certainly didn't get any history on the restaurant. We tried flagging down anyone to come help us with correcting our order and nobody came. The sommeliers would just walk around us, I guess that's not their job. Finally we got one of the sommeliers to come to our table. We told him about the steaks and he said he's bring our order back correctly. It was very evident that it was the same steak. Again, nobody came by to apologize or see if the order was correct. We finished our meal and flagged down the waiter for a dessert. He never asked if our order came out well or if we enjoyed our food...nothing. Our check was over $400. The service was absolutely awful and the food was not worth that price. It was truly a very disappointing experience, especially for a celebration. It was evident we were not a very important to anyone, the waiter, sommeliers (since we did not reorder wine) or any management. If you want to spend big bucks on mediocre steak and drink bottles of wine this is the place for you. If you don't drink alcohol and just want a good steak house try somewhere else!

Great service and food