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# Il Porcellino, Chicago IL: Reviews

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

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

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## In short

Il Porcellino is an italian restaurant in Chicago, IL. Its AI Score is 52 of 100, which is fair.

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


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Italian restaurant |
| Address | 59 W Hubbard St #2, Chicago, IL 60654, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Thu 4 AM to 9:30 PM · Fri to Sat 4 AM to 10:30 PM · Sun 4 AM to 9:30 PM |
| Phone | (312) 595-0800 |
| Rating | 4.8 across 5,699 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Sunday |
| 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 | 59 W Hubbard St #2, Chicago, IL 60654, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Casual-chic, vibrant spot for housemade pastas, Italian specials, and wine. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 4:00 to 9:30 PM · Fri to Sat 4:00 to 10:30 PM · Sun 4:00 to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Mondays | 4:00 to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Il Porcellino | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (312) 595-0800 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 4:00 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 4:00 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 4:00 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 4:00 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 4:00 AM to 10:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 4:00 AM to 10:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 4:00 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Dine-in reservations | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Housemade pastas | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Menus | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Private event menus | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Private events | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Reserve | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Virtual menus | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Wine | AI guess |  |
| Links | Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/ilporcellinochi | Confirmed | Business website |
| Links | Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/ilporcellinochi | Confirmed | Business website |
| Links | TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@ilporcellinochi | Confirmed | Business website |
| Links | Website | http://ilporcellinochicago.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 4 services Il Porcellino offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Reserve |  |  |  | From their website |
| Virtual menus |  |  |  | From their website |
| Menus |  |  |  | From their website |
| Private event menus |  |  |  | From their website |


### Known for

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## The team

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## Visiting Il Porcellino

Address: 59 W Hubbard St #2, Chicago, IL 60654, USA. Phone: (312) 595-0800. Hours: Mon to Thu 4 AM to 9:30 PM · Fri to Sat 4 AM to 10:30 PM · Sun 4 AM to 9:30 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Casual-chic, vibrant spot for housemade pastas, Italian specials, and wine."


### When to go

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


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| RAMEN-SAN | Ramen restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Crying Tiger | Restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Firecakes Donuts | Donut shop | 1 min walk |
| PLANTA Chicago | Vegan restaurant | 1 min walk |
| 417 N Clark St Parking | Parking lot | 1 min walk |
| SP+ Parking | Parking garage | 1 min walk |


## Reputation

4.8 average across 5,699 reviews: Google 5,699. (Confirmed, read September 15, 2026.)

Despite standout dishes like burrata lasagna, inconsistent service and long wait times overshadow the dining experience at Il Porcellino. (AI guess, from 5,699 reviews.)


### What people like

- Burrata lasagna
- Tiramisu
- Garlic bread


### What people do not like

- Rude service from staff
- Long waits for food
- Incorrect orders


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

Listed on 5 of the 24 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 | Not listed |
| Foursquare | Not listed |
| Groupon | Not listed |
| Hotfrog | Not listed |
| MapQuest | Listed |
| MerchantCircle | Not listed |
| Nextdoor | Not 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


### best italian restaurant in Chicago


### which one for Authentic Italian Pasta Dishes, Il Porcellino or Quartino Ristorante?


### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review?


### lunch near Hubbard, what is good


### anything new from Il Porcellino lately?


### opening hours here, what are they these days?


### when is this place actually dead?


### Booking at Il Porcellino in Chicago, how does it work?


### pricey here, or about normal?


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


### walking in for a first visit, what happens


### address for Il Porcellino, anyone have it?


### discounts for coming back, is that a thing


### cancellation list here, is there one


### parking at Il Porcellino, where does everyone put the car?


### budget options in Chicago, what is decent


### are prices in Chicago higher than everywhere else


### Worth the hype at Il Porcellino?


### Why do people rate this place?


## The AI Score: 52 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. Il Porcellino scores 52, above the Chicago average of 34. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Il Porcellino |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 100 | 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. | Good |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | 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 | 7 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 96 | 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 | 67 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 43 | 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 Il Porcellino |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Il Porcellino | LocalBusiness | #business | http://ilporcellinochicago.com/ | Subject of this page |
| Chicago, Illinois | City | #city |  | City Il Porcellino 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:ChIJJ3QOj7EsDogRnP9Ty8gAjlU (accessed Sep 15, 2026)
- [2] ilporcellinochicago.com, https://www.ilporcellinochicago.com/menus/ (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [3] ilporcellinochicago.com, https://www.ilporcellinochicago.com/reserve/ (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [4] ilporcellinochicago.com, https://www.ilporcellinochicago.com/virtual-menus/ (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [5] ilporcellinochicago.com, https://www.ilporcellinochicago.com/private-event-menus/ (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [6] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Sep 21, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
- [7] ilporcellinochicago.com, http://ilporcellinochicago.com/ (accessed Sep 21, 2026)