| Frontera Grill | |
| Current-Owner: | Rick Bayless |
| Head-Chef: | Richard James |
| Food-Type: | Mexican cuisine |
| Street-Address: | 445 N Clark St. |
| City: | Chicago |
| State: | Illinois |
| Zip: | 60654 |
| Country: | United States |
| Seating-Capacity: | 65 |
| Other-Information: | Phone: (312) 661-1434 |
| Pushpin Map: | United States Chicago Downtown#USA Illinois#USA |
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]