Anthony Todd

The list is a historically good predictor of who's going to break through in the food world over the next few years.

Keep your peanuts and Cracker Jack. We’ll take craft cocktails, chorizo tacos, smoked brisket, and the rest of the delicious offerings clustered around the new ballpark-adjacent Hotel Zachary.

Including: Revolution Brewing's first-ever Italian Beef Fest

Beer Under Glass at the Garfield Park Conservatory, a Battle of the Breweries at the Goose Island Barrel House, and more: Pace yourself.

Plus: A Star Wars pop-up comes to Lincoln Park and Eater Chicago investigates why 42 Grams shuttered.

ABC7's Hungry Hound has been eating three pizzas a day to prepare for his Pizza City USA tours and forthcoming book.

Plus: Homestead on the Roof—one of the prettiest hidden gems in Chicago—reopens today

Their beer dinners will have custom brews to match individual dishes.

Plus: The Palm reopens after a $2.5 million renovation and the Chelsea Room hits River North.

Essentially, it's "why would I charge $18 for a dish if it doesn’t taste as good as a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos?”