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The Great Soft Serve Taste Test
Our dining critic loves the stuff — and finds that the most low-brow is the...
Queen Mary Tavern’s Enzoni is Our Favorite Taste of Fall
The local version on the modern classic cocktail uses muddled Concord grapes to capture the...
The 10 Hottest Restaurants in Chicago Right Now
The city’s most buzzed-about restaurants this month.
Best New Restaurants
From an all-day Filipino café to a sushi joint hidden inside a distillery, the city’s...
The Rise of Lunch
Some of Chicago’s top chefs have begun to embrace the midday meal.
14. Taqueria Chingón
This project from a trio of friends with upscale dining credentials is like an experimental...
13. Tengoku Aburiya
The tiny sushi bar Omakase Yume is good for a splurge, but its sister restaurant...
12. Mama Delia
The drama begins with a bright pink exterior and fern-bedecked patio and extends into the...
11. Elina’s
Red sauce joints have been opening left and right in Chicago, and there are exactly...
10. Evette’s
If you’ve downed tacos al pastor or traveled to Puebla for tacos árabes, you’ve tasted...
9. Esmé
When Jenner Tomaska, the former Next executive chef, ventured out to open his own restaurant...
8. The Coach House by Wazwan
Walk through Wazwan — where guests sitting at high-top communal tables snarf pan-Asian street food like okonomiyaki...