Restaurant review: Frontera Grill

445 North Clark Street - Chicago, IL 60610 Phone: 312-661-1434 - Fax: 312-661-1830

I expected it to be better. Oh, well. Maybe I didn't order the right thing. When I first walked in to Frontera, I was surprised. I had expected more of a fancy atmosphere. Instead, it was all quite casual. I was seated and ordered a few appetizers: tamales, huaraches, taquitos, and surprisingly good oysters. The appetizers were excellent and the oysters tasted like they were just caught yesterday. But it was the entree that made my meal a disappointment. I had vuelve de la vida, a seafood cocktail. The cocktail sauce was much too limey and the seafood itself was rather lacking. The dessert was good though. I ordered homemade blood orange-buttermilk ice cream with caramel made from goat's milk. Here is a weblink to their website. In all, I give it three forks.