About
Evette's is named after my Teta (grandma in Lebanese) a woman who is the guiding light of hospitality as we see it. It felt like she was born to be a Teta. She lived to feed and take care of people. She embodied everything good about human nature. Her food was amazing, not just because it tasted amazing, but because even a stranger could tell the love she was putting into it for you. That love is in our food now and will be as long as we are serving you. The want to love you through our food is what we hope you feel.
Evette “Teta” AbouJamra
Evette's is a restaurant in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood. At Evette's, we bring together the Mediterranean flavors of Lebanon & Mexico's rich culinary traditions while staying true to our Chicago/midwestern roots. Everything on our menu is thoughtfully sourced & prepared. Each of our ingredients is implemented with the best of intentions to optimize what you are eating. The result is our food is nourishing, tasty & cared for.
Chef/owner Mitchell Jamra is a first-generation Lebanese-American who grew up immersed in three food cultures that serve as his foundation: Lebanese, Mexican, and Midwestern. He was raised in Flint, MI, centered around his family’s table celebrating the foods of their homeland, their grocery store and butcher shop, and their farm. When his parents split and his father moved to Tucson, AZ, he experienced Mexican food during his formative years. AbouJamra (who also goes by Jamra professionally) attended culinary school at the Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago and went on to work under the late Chef Dominique Tougne at Bistro 110. Expanding his knowledge of the hospitality industry, Jamra then worked varying positions from brand-managing alcohol companies with his business Great Lakes Beverage Collective, to lead chef-instructor for Sur La Table, opening new schools at locations across the country.
In 2020, Jamra opened Evette's, a restaurant that melds the Mediterranean flavors of Lebanon with Mexico’s rich culinary traditions while staying true to his Midwestern roots. Jamra has since expanded bringing Evette's to TimeOut Market in the West Loop in 2022 and Lakeview in 2023 in the midst of earning a spot on The New York Time’s “The Restaurant List—50 Places in America we’re most excited about right now”. In 2022, Jamra open sister restaurant All Too Well in Lincoln Park, a nod to growing up in a family of butchers.