Mity Nice Grill

After years of feeding the tired, the hungry and the shopped-out of Water Tower Place, Mity Nice recently closed for a two-week, head-to-toe renovation. The look now is less old-school and more new (it kind of has the look of the lobby of a boutique hotel), but the revamped menu retains its hominess. A shrimp-and-avocado cocktail skimps neither on sweet shrimp nor spicy tomatoes; “fork tender country ribs” are sweet and boneless and therefore can indeed be cut with a fork; and the hot fudge pie is too decadent to be finished (and that’s a compliment). It’s not—and never was—a destination restaurant. But after a long, hard afternoon at Bloomies, it’s damn near perfect.