The Chestnut Street Grill (dearly departed) is my gold standard whenever considering and reviewing a restaurant that purports to be a genuine fresh seafood and fish establishment.  It was one of the first Chicago restaurants to feature grilled seafood, offering the public a welcomed alternative to deep-fried or sautéed fish.  The old Chestnut in Chicago was in the Water Tower Place where you can now find Mity Nice Grill; part of the Food Life monstrosity on the Mezzanine level. Styled as an authentic San Francisco seafood house, Chestnut Street Grill became one of America's foremost seafood restaurants and enjoyed a long, successful run with it's heyday being between the years of 1985-1990 or so.  The restaurant defied the odds as it was tucked deep away within an 8 story Shopping Mall with no on street presence. The centerpiece of Chestnut and the thing that set the restaurant apart from other seafood impostor restaurants was their glassed in display kitchen which extended out into the heart of the dining room featuring a vast, wood fired charcoal grill in which almost all entrees were grilled to order.  The smartly dressed wait staff were all attired in white jackets with black trousers and were expected to be incredibly knowledgeable on each and every fish species or shellfish that the ...