It was super crowded on a Friday night, which we expected. The cocktails were perfectly crafted, albeit a tad pricy. Again, we came expecting that. We'll be back for sure.

Jusr when my wife and I had decided to have lunch at the new, hip, stylish Cindy's Rooftop bar/restaurant in the landmark Chicago Athletic Association building at 12 South Michigan Avenue, between Madison and Monroe, across the street from Millennium Park, I noticed that the dinner menu included Branzino, one of my favorites. Change of plan. Open from 11 to 11 Monday through Thursday, 11 to midnight on Friday, 10 to midnight on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Sunday, Cindy's offers tantalizing menus for lunch and dinner. How about lunch with potato bisque, walleye, shrimp and crab roll and freshly baked chocolate chip cookies? For dinner, we started with heirloom tomato salad with summer melon, cucumber, spiced yogurt, chickpeas, watercress and smoked tomato vinaigrette and grilled eggplant wth lime and fish vinaigrette, green beans, cucumber, pickled Fresno, shallot, mint and basil. I really enjoyed my whole fried Branzino, a delightfully meaty and tender and tasty Mediterranean sea bass, with farm greens, white cabbage Kimchi, sweet and spicy soy, mint, Cilantro, scallions and house pickles. With a loaded baked potato lwkth fontina cheese, bacon, onion jam, creme Fraiche, butter and chive and crispy mushrooms. My wife chose green curry prawns with chorizo, coconut milk, Cilantro, ginger, basil, fish sauce and grilled sourdough with a loaded baked potato and grilled asparagus. For dessert, we shared a large portion of black sesame pavlova with strawberry yuzu compote, black sesame ice cream, yuzo cream and Dragon fruit. With a view of the park and Lake Michigan.

Cindy's View and food - keeps us coming back - time after time! We always make time and a reservation at Cindy's for each and every trip we make to Chicago. Colette was an exceptional server! We enjoyed cocktails - Teeling single pot old fashioned and ketel one cucumber mint. Appetizer was salmon carpaccio. We shared an entree of green curry prawns and loaded baked potato. Ended the night with a fantastic view and Boston Bual Madeira! Excellent meal and view - cannot go wrong here!

The view from this rooftop restaurant is awesome.

it was chilly and windy when we went there, but they had a fireplace outside to keep you warm

I ordered the fish and chips and it was definitely off or had gone bad. I actually gagged when I was trying to eat it and didn’t finish any of my lunch. The waitress was so busy and rushed. She never even asked why I sent a full plate back. My stomach was upset for about 12 hours after and I only had two bites of the fish. Cool building and location but food was terrible. My son got burger and was bloody in middle. He was ok with it but from food safety perspective would not eat her again. For $80 for a burger, fish and chips and 2 diet cokes felt like you can do much better somewhere else. Probably worst lunch I have ever had.