
Best Restaurants in Chicago
America's greatest eating city, and it isn't close.
Chicago doesn't chase food trends — it outlasts them. This is a city where a tasting menu with three Michelin stars and an Italian beef dripping down your wrist are equally serious cultural institutions. Deep neighborhood loyalty means the best meal of your trip might be in Pilsen, Uptown, or a strip mall on Devon Avenue. Come hungry, leave humbled.
The Spots
The spotThe rating
1SmythWest Loop · American · $$$Delicious as F*ck2KasamaUkrainian Village · Filipino · $$Delicious as F*ck3OrioleFulton Market District · American · $$$$Delicious as F*ck4AlineaLincoln Park · Experimental · $$$$Delicious as F*ck5Ever RestaurantFulton Market District · Experimental · $$$$Delicious as F*ck6FeldUkrainian Village · American · $$$$Delicious as F*ck7CariñoUptown · Mexican · $$$$Delicious as F*ck8BokaLincoln Park · American · $$$$Delicious as F*ck9GalitLincoln Park · Middle Eastern · $Delicious as F*ck10Virtue RestaurantHyde Park · American · $$$Delicious as F*ckBrowse all 848 Chicago restaurantsWhat movedAug 30Tre DitaBacklog →Worth TryingAug 30avec RestaurantDamn Good →DeliciousAug 30Small Cheval- RiversideOn the Radar →Worth Trying
The beef
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