Best Restaurants in Chicago
Menus, photos and places worth a table.
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Pictured: Lula Cafe
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10 Best Restaurants in Chicago
10 restaurants in Chicago worth planning around, from Lula Cafe to Kie-Gol-Lanee Uptown, with standout orders and options for different budgets.
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Pictured: Bavette's Bar & Boeuf
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6 Best Date-Night Restaurants in Chicago
6 Date-Night restaurants in Chicago worth planning around, from Bavette's Bar & Boeuf to Monteverde Restaurant & Pastificio, with standout orders and options for different budgets.
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Pictured: Oriole
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6 Best Fine Dining in Chicago
6 fine Dining in Chicago worth planning around, from Oriole to Boka, with standout orders and options for different budgets.
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Neighborhoods, cuisines, and occasions give the city structure without turning the website into a heavy app flow.
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Ukrainian Village
A neighborhood with stronger independent restaurant energy and enough personality to make a dinner feel memorable.
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Avondale
Restaurants in Avondale, Chicago — sorted by rating and curated by TastyPals.
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Andersonville
Restaurants in Andersonville, Chicago — sorted by rating and curated by TastyPals.
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American
The best American restaurants in Chicago, sorted by rating and curated by TastyPals editors.
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Italian
Chicago's best Italian rooms tend to combine warmth, appetite, and enough confidence to make the dinner feel bigger than the category.
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Mexican
The best Mexican restaurants in Chicago, sorted by rating and curated by TastyPals editors.
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date night
The best restaurants for date night in Chicago, curated by TastyPals editors.
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dinner
The best restaurants for dinner in Chicago, curated by TastyPals editors.
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cocktail
The best restaurants for cocktail in Chicago, curated by TastyPals editors.
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More about dining in Chicago
Chicago still does hospitality better than almost any American dining city. Oriole and Smyth hold two Michelin stars each. Kasama earned a star in its first year — the first Filipino restaurant in the country to do so. Elske, Ever, and Alinea round out a fine dining tier that competes with New York on its own terms. The neighbourhood rooms in Logan Square, Wicker Park, and the West Loop are where the city's second argument lives.
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