# Francesca's On Chestnut, Chicago IL: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/il/chicago/francesca-s-on-chestnut-chicago-il. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-15.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/il/chicago/francesca-s-on-chestnut-chicago-il

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## In short

Francesca's On Chestnut is an italian restaurant in Chicago, IL. Its AI Score is 27 of 100, which is poor.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Italian restaurant |
| Address | 200 E Chestnut St, Chicago, IL 60611, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Thu 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 10 PM · Sun 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM |
| Phone | (312) 482-8800 |
| Rating | 4.7 across 3,320 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Thursday |
| Updated | September 15, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 200 E Chestnut St, Chicago, IL 60611, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Classic Italian cuisine & imported wines served in sophisticated surrounds with dark wood paneling. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 10:00 PM · Sun 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Francesca's On Chestnut | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (312) 482-8800 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 11:30 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 11:30 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Francesca s amici elmhurst | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Francesca s famiglia barrington | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Francesca s fortunato frankfort | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Francesca s intimo lake forest | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Francesca s north northbrook | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Francesca s tavola arlington heights | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Francesca s vicinato palos park | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Imported wines | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Italian cuisine | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | La sorella di francesca naperville | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Mia francesca | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Mia francesca lincolnwood | From their website | Business website |
| Links | Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/francescas.restaurants | Confirmed | Business website |
| Links | Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/francescasrestaurants | Confirmed | Business website |
| Links | Website | http://www.miafrancesca.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 10 services Francesca's On Chestnut offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Francesca s vicinato palos park |  |  |  | From their website |
| Mia francesca |  |  |  | From their website |
| Francesca s fortunato frankfort |  |  |  | From their website |
| Francesca s amici elmhurst |  |  |  | From their website |
| La sorella di francesca naperville |  |  |  | From their website |
| Mia francesca lincolnwood |  |  |  | From their website |
| Francesca s tavola arlington heights |  |  |  | From their website |
| Francesca s north northbrook |  |  |  | From their website |
| Francesca s famiglia barrington |  |  |  | From their website |
| Francesca s intimo lake forest |  |  |  | From their website |


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## The team

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## Visiting Francesca's On Chestnut

Address: 200 E Chestnut St, Chicago, IL 60611, USA. Phone: (312) 482-8800. Hours: Mon to Thu 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM · Fri to Sat 11:30 AM to 10 PM · Sun 11:30 AM to 9:30 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Classic Italian cuisine & imported wines served in sophisticated surrounds with dark wood paneling."


### When to go

Quietest day: Thursday. Busiest day: Saturday. From the popular times on its Google listing.


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Metro Valet Parking | Parking garage | 1 min walk |
| The Lunchroom at SPACE 519 (Gold Coast) | Restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Pioneer Parking, Inc. | Parking garage | 1 min walk |
| Garden Plaza | Parking lot | 1 min walk |
| SPACE 519 (Gold Coast) | Clothing store | 1 min walk |
| Cafecito | Cuban restaurant | 1 min walk |


## Reputation

4.7 average across 3,320 reviews: Google 3,320. (Confirmed, read September 15, 2026.)

Francesca's On Chestnut is known for its delicious pasta and meatballs but struggles with service consistency and management responsiveness. (AI guess, from 3,320 reviews.)


### What people like

- Vodka pasta
- Seared salmon


### What people do not like

- Long waits for food
- Inconsistent service quality
- Bland dishes
- Unresponsive management
- Poor handling of dietary restrictions


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

Listed on 7 of the 23 directories we checked.

| Directory | Listed |
| --- | --- |
| Alignable | Not listed |
| Angi | Not listed |
| Apple Maps | Listed |
| BBB | Not listed |
| Birdeye | Not listed |
| Brownbook | Not listed |
| Chamber of Commerce | Not listed |
| Cylex | Not listed |
| DexKnows | Not listed |
| Facebook | Listed |
| Hotfrog | Not listed |
| Manta | Not listed |
| MapQuest | Listed |
| MerchantCircle | Not listed |
| Nextdoor | Listed |
| OpenTable | Listed |
| Superpages | Not listed |
| Tripadvisor | Listed |
| Trustpilot | Not listed |
| Tupalo | Not listed |
| Yellowbook | Not listed |
| Yellow Pages | Not listed |
| Yelp | Listed |


## Questions people ask


### Whereabouts is this place?


### bad experiences here, anyone?


### is Chicago expensive for this, or is it just here


### anything new from Francesca's On Chestnut lately?


### What italian restaurant questions is Chicago asking AI most?


### prices round here, anyone got a number


### Are the hours on Google right for this place?


### Any membership pricing at Francesca's On Chestnut?


### worth it or not, what do the regulars say


### pricey at Francesca's On Chestnut, or about normal?


### Francesca's On Chestnut, any chance to get a table this week?


### do I need to book Francesca's On Chestnut in Chicago or can I just turn up?


### picking between the two, is Il Porcellino the safer bet?


### Coffee near this place on Chestnut?


### best italian restaurant in Chicago


### Busiest day at Francesca's On Chestnut, anyone know?


### anyone tell me what a first visit here involves


### people keep recommending Francesca's On Chestnut, what for?


## The AI Score: 27 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Chicago italian restaurants run 25 to 58. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Francesca's On Chestnut scores 27, below the Chicago average of 37. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Francesca's On Chestnut |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 95 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 60 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 39 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 78 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Good |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about an italian restaurant: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Francesca's On Chestnut |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Francesca's On Chestnut | LocalBusiness | #business | http://www.miafrancesca.com/ | Subject of this page |
| Chicago, Illinois | City | #city |  | City Francesca's On Chestnut is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the italian restaurants in Chicago, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best italian restaurants in Chicago: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/chicago/italian-restaurant
- Best businesses in Chicago: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/chicago


### Nearby

- /schaumburg: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/schaumburg
- /elgin: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/elgin
- /carol-stream: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/carol-stream
- /lombard: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/lombard
- /aurora: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/aurora
- /st-charles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/st-charles


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in Illinois: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJrZa6SFTTD4gR0EUTEwYmZB4 (accessed Sep 15, 2026)
- [2] miafrancesca.com, https://www.miafrancesca.com/location/mia-francesca-lincolnwood/ (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [3] miafrancesca.com, https://www.miafrancesca.com/location/mia-francesca-famiglia/ (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [4] miafrancesca.com, https://www.miafrancesca.com/location/mia-francesca-fortunato/ (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [5] miafrancesca.com, https://www.miafrancesca.com/location/mia-francesca-intimo/ (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [6] miafrancesca.com, https://www.miafrancesca.com/location/mia-francesca-northbrook/ (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [7] miafrancesca.com, https://www.miafrancesca.com/location/mia-francesca-tavola/ (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [8] miafrancesca.com, https://www.miafrancesca.com/location/francescas-vicinato/ (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [9] miafrancesca.com, https://www.miafrancesca.com/location/mia-francesca-lakeview/ (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [10] miafrancesca.com, https://www.miafrancesca.com/location/mia-francesca-amici/ (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [11] miafrancesca.com, https://www.miafrancesca.com/location/mia-francesca-la-sorella-di-francesca/ (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [12] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 21, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [13] miafrancesca.com, http://www.miafrancesca.com/ (accessed Sep 21, 2026)