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Victory Restaurant Group

Founded by Chef Joe Farina and long-time friend Anthony Gambino, Victory Restaurant Group brings diners fine Chicago Italian creations at Victory Tap | South Loop, Victory Italian | Victory Italian | Oak Park. Victory Restaurant Group specializes in classic Chicago Italian dishes along with prime meat and seafood.

Our menus feature Chef Farina’s signature dishes and handmade pastas, including his famous award-winning “Joe’s Mama’s Meatballs,” classic brick chicken, the city’s best and largest parmesans, prime steaks and extraordinarily prepared seafood. It’s a true labor of love from Chef Farina, Chicago’s preeminent practitioner of Chicago-style Italian cuisine.

He and his family learned to adapt classic Italian recipes to accommodate local ingredients – a tradition that Chef Joe brings to all our Victory restaurants. Victory evokes the spirit of the upscale taverns that served Italian-American food throughout 1920s and 1930s Chicago. Our locations are proud to represent the neighborhoods they call home, and welcome regulars and visitors alike, in Victory style.

CHEF JOE FARINA

Chef Joe Farina is known for delighting diners with finely tuned versions of the Italian classics that brought notoriety to Chicago's Italian neighborhood restaurants. Utilizing the finest and freshest ingredients, Chef Farina honors the Italian tradition of keeping it simple and letting the flavors shine through.

Chef Farina has honed his craft at some of Chicago's most iconic restaurants, and is a mainstay and culinary personality on Chicago's television and radio networks, as well as the area's most prestigious "foodie" events, including Chicago Gourmet, Taste of Travel and The Grand Chef's Experience. He was also awarded the Golden Rasher for Best Bacon Dish, People's Choice at Chicago's iconic Baconfest.