Best Southern Food Neighborhood
Hyde Park In Chicago, Southern food has for too long meant fried chicken, pimento cheese, and the kind of biscuits that would make any Southerner bust out a passive-aggressive “Bless...
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Best Asian Food Destination
Jefferson Square As much fun as it is to walk around Chinatown Square, Chicago’s new Asian food hotness lies just across the river in the East Pilsen mall Jefferson Square....
Review: Prime Time
A surprising Asian steakhouse in East Pilsen is the city’s best new spot for beef.
Southern Charm
The Hyde Park restaurant is the latest from Southern food pro Charlie McKenna.
Twice the Spice
Zubair Mohajir offers an insightful exploration of modern Indian cuisine at two new side-by-side restaurants.
Best New Restaurants
From an all-day Filipino café to a sushi joint hidden inside a distillery, the city’s 14 top new spots anchor a dining renaissance.
14. Taqueria Chingón
This project from a trio of friends with upscale dining credentials is like an experimental taco development lab. Thick housemade tortillas cradle everything from blood sausage, pickled red onions, and...
13. Tengoku Aburiya
The tiny sushi bar Omakase Yume is good for a splurge, but its sister restaurant next door is the one you’ll want to put into regular rotation. If you’ve heard...
8. The Coach House by Wazwan
Walk through Wazwan — where guests sitting at high-top communal tables snarf pan-Asian street food like okonomiyaki and vada pav (fried potato sliders) — across the courtyard, and into the coach house, which survived...
5. Jinsei Motto
Our new favorite sushi bar is in the Malört factory, and if that isn’t the most Chicago thing ever, we don’t know what is. Head sushi chef Patrick Bouaphanh first...