Jeff Marini

The original location celebrates its centennial this year, and as the neighborhoods surrounding it have changed, Margie’s has remained a constant, a beacon for teenagers who cluster in groups and...

Sisters Carmen Lemons and Lynn Walker Harvey keep the flames of Chicago-style ’cue alive at the city’s oldest Black-owned barbecue joint. Everything in the aquarium-style cooker gets a gentle bath...

Juan Zaragoza began making a version of the Jaliscan goat-meat stew here in 2007. His son Jonathan has since joined the operation, and the two butcher the animals in house....

With its floury, cracker-thin crust and little nuggets of sausage that are all fennel and juiciness, a takeout pizza from this septuagenarian pub is a timeless pleasure. But it’s only...

Eighteen years, a second location, and 2 million stuffed dates after this pioneering West Loop spot opened, the same cook, Jorge Ruiz, continues to assemble each of these delicious tapas-style...

In the 1980s, Nai Tiao, an ethnic Chinese immigrant from Korea, adapted a recipe from back home called gam poong gi, creating a way-too-easy-to-eat classic. The fat, exquisite nubbins of...

How could the city’s oldest hot dog stand not serve up an iconic offering? Dave’s Red Hots opened near 12th and Homan in 1938 and lives on just down the...

The city’s top tortilla manufacturer, El Milagro, which was started in 1950, also happens to run one of Little Village’s best Mexican restaurants. The location on 26th Street is a...

There are 20 kinds of bánh mì on the menu here, and while you won’t go wrong with any of them, there’s an exalted place in the Chicago sandwich pantheon...

Butchered and ground in house, this Beverly favorite’s surpassingly juicy griddled beef is much too good for the limp bun that encloses the burgers here. The superior choice is the...