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  2. Rank 2. Alinea

    Creative

    Grant Achatz orchestrates dinner as theater—vapor drifts across the table, hidden flavors emerge from diminutive courses, and tableside pyrotechnics render the plate obsolete. The evening oscillates between whimsy and precision, each course a small rupture in expectation, culminating in dessert painted directly onto bare wood.


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    1723 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  3. Rank 3. Gavroche

    Modern French


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    1529 N Wells St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  4. Rank 4. Boka

    Modern New American

    Lee Wolen's dining room—all banquettes, mirrored fixtures, quiet confidence—sustains its reputation through unwavering technique and seasonal rigor. Hokkaido scallops arrive with green garlic purée and aerated sabayon; house-made ricotta gnocchetti swims in cream beneath crispy chicken skin. A restaurant that has earned its steadiness.


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    1729 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  5. Rank 5. Maple & Ash

    Steakhouse

    A wood-fired steakhouse that doubles as a scene: leather banquettes, a photo booth, and a semi-open kitchen where dry-aged beef and whole octopus emerge burnished from the flames. The seafood tower arrives tableside, lobster tail and king crab glistening in garlic butter and chili oil, but it's the theatre—the music, the glow—that makes you want to stay.


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    8 W Maple St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  6. Rank 6. Chef's Table at Astor Club

    Contemporary New American

    Ten diners share a nightly tasting menu in Chef Trevor Teich's intimate Gold Coast dining room, where oysters arrive topped with champagne foam and lobster is finished tableside with vin jaune beurre blanc. The Astor Club's private setting and luxe ingredients create an air of exclusive refinement without pretension.


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    24 E Goethe St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    108 E Superior St, FL 4, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  8. Rank 8. Asador Bastian

    Basque-inspired Steakhouse

    Asador Bastian applies Basque grilling discipline to dry-aged beef cooked over charcoal with deliberate restraint, avoiding performance for precision. Set in a 1883 building, the restaurant prioritizes selection and control over volume, anchored by a working open kitchen.


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    214 W Erie St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  9. Rank 9. Esmé

    Contemporary

    Chef Jenner Tomaska's minimal gallery-like space treats each course as art, with flavorful compositions like Dover sole in vin jaune sauce served on custom ceramics by local makers. The high-concept tasting blurs dining and visual experience without sacrificing the precision of dishes like goat cheese ice cream with yuzu and cured egg yolk.


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    2200 N Clark St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    12 W Elm St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    2 W Elm St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
  12. Rank 12. Doma

    Croatian


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    946 N Orleans St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    1300 N Dearborn St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  14. Rank 14. Indienne

    Modern Indian

    Chef Sujan Sarkar's progressive vision of Indian cuisine arrives plated like gallery pieces in a River North warehouse: pani puris and curries refined with French restraint, each course deftly spiced and theatrically composed. The room itself—soaring beams above rose-pink booths—suggests ambition without pretense, a setting where familiar flavors taste like discovery.


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    217 W Huron St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  15. Duck and foie gras anchor a menu of French classics made entirely in-house—from pâté en croûte to squab pithiviers—executed with a clarity that belies the kitchen's ambition. The sun-soaked River North room hums with the contentment of guests who finish with house-made ice creams and warm pastries, as if restraint were never an option.


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    700 N Sedgwick St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    858 N State St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  17. Rank 17. S.K.Y.

    Contemporary

    Tall ceilings and dim sconces frame an intimate dining room where the kitchen moves fluidly between continents—roasted lamb meatballs arrive slicked with tikka masala butter, bibimbap gleams with char and mushroom bulgogi. The banana budino endures, a tether to what worked before, while strawberries meet champagne and pistachio cake in the kitchen's newer ambitions.


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    2300 N Lincoln Park W, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    800 Michigan Ave 7th Floor, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  19. Rank 19. John’s Food and Wine

    Modern New American

    White brick and a long banquette set the scene at this counter-service neighborhood spot where diners order before sitting. The kitchen sends out country ham with fried sunchokes, lobster salad with leek aioli, dry-aged steaks with potato pavé—each plate arriving with the confidence of a place that knows what it's doing. Beef fat fries alone justify a return.


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    2114 N Halsted St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  20. Rank 20. Galit

    Modern Middle Eastern

    Inside a modest storefront, Zach Engel's modern Middle Eastern cooking unfolds through a prix-fixe of diners' choosing, opening with creamy hummus, warm pita, and pickles that establish the evening's warmth. The falafel carries unexpected brightness, wines from the Levantine region flow with purpose, and the whole operation hums with genuine hospitality.


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    2429 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  21. Rank 21. Avec River North

    Midwestern Mediterranean


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    141 W Erie St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  22. A sprawling seafood house with dark wood and mounted fish, serving generous portions of oysters, stone crab, and frog's legs to a perpetually packed dining room. The bar anchors its own scene, while decadent desserts like Muddy Bottom Pie demand accomplices.


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    1024 N Rush St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    2200 N Clark St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    534 N Clark St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    914 N Wells St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  26. Rick Bayless's Mexican fine dining showcases seasonal, tradition-rooted dishes with unexpected flourishes, from memela divorciada to salmon in pipian sauce. The agave-focused beverage pairings elevate each course with studied care.


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    445 N Clark St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    51 W Hubbard St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  28. Rank 28. Z Bar

    Global


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    108 E Superior St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    1400 N Kingsbury St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  30. Rank 30. Kumiko

    Japanese Cocktail Bar

    Julia Momosé's dining bar pairs an exceptional Japanese spirits collection with sharp-uniformed servers who radiate genuine warmth across a room designed for lingering. The kitchen matches that precision—butter cabbage with ramp miso and katsuobushi, grilled Arctic char in shio koji beurre blanc—each plate calibrated as carefully as the cocktails beside it.


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    630 W Lake St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    435 N Clark St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  32. Rank 32. Oud Coffee & Cafe

    Palestinian Coffee


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    714 N Wells St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  33. Rank 33. Oriole

    French-Japanese New American

    A former warehouse accessed by freight elevator, Oriole channels restrained elegance through its open kitchen and striking ceiling collage. Chef Noah Sandoval's French-Japanese tasting menu demonstrates disciplined technique, with black truffle capellini and foie gras canapés executed with quiet precision.


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    661 W Walnut St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  34. Rank 34. Sifr

    Wood-Fired Middle Eastern

    In a sun-filled River North corner, Sifr builds meals around its hummus—a charred and crispy affair layered with zhoug and za'atar—and wood-fired proteins like spiced chicken shish taouk and halloumi with pomegranate molasses. The kitchen, from the team behind Indienne, treats sharing as a suggestion rather than a rule. House-made ice creams close things out with understated grace.


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    660 N Orleans St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  35. Rank 35. Tzuco

    Mexican

    Carlos Gaytán's Tzuco crackles with energy, its earth-toned dining room anchored by a chef's counter where hamachi swims in electric cactus aguachile. The tinga de pollo and grilled-octopus tacos honor tradition while reaching toward something brighter.


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    720 N State St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    2275 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  37. Rank 37. North Pond

    Contemporary

    In a converted ice-skate warming shelter facing Lincoln Park pond, Chef Cesar Murillo's seasonal tasting menu braids Latin and Asian influences through dishes like tuna tartare with chicharrón and wagyu with shiso. The dining room trades fussiness for comfort, anchored by rooftop vegetables and city views.


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    2610 N Cannon Dr, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    500 N La Salle Dr, Chicago, IL · Chicago

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    2009 N Bissell St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  40. Rank 40. Nadu

    Regional Indian

    Chef Sujan Sarkar's Nadu serves contemporary regional Indian cuisine designed for sharing, with meen gassi—walleye in coconut and tamarind curry—standing out as a richly spiced centerpiece. The warm, upbeat dining room welcomes walk-ins at the bar, though reservations help secure a table for the vegetable moilee and other dishes meant for the whole table.


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    2518 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  41. Rank 41. Smyth

    Contemporary

    The open kitchen at this chic West Loop tasting room showcases Shields and Urie-Shields' boundary-pushing approach to seasonal produce, some grown on-site. A kelp tart with pea butter and trout roe, or foie gras doughnuts with crab, exemplify their restless creativity.


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    177 N Ada St, Unit 101, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    500 N La Salle Dr, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    676 N Orleans St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  44. Rank 44. Ever

    Creative

    On a hushed corner of Fulton Market, Curtis Duffy orchestrates an austere dining room where every element—light, spacing, plating—answers to a larger vision. The food arrives as disciplined architecture: technically assured, visually composed, each plate a study in structure and restraint.


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    1340 W Fulton St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    2507 N Lincoln Ave, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  46. Rank 46. Frontera Grill

    Regional Mexican

    Rick Bayless' Clark Street flagship pursues regional Mexican cooking with theatrical precision—table-side margaritas arrive alongside molés that taste like they've traveled from the coasts of Guerrero. The kitchen's ceviche and poblano-spiked sides suggest a place less interested in fusion than in honoring what already works.


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    445 N Clark St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    444 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  48. Rank 48. Sepia

    New American

    A former print shop on Jefferson Street holds a dining room where exposed brick and floor-to-ceiling wine racks frame Chef Andrew Zimmerman's restless intelligence. His brioche with black truffle and leek velouté, his sablefish with barbecue spice and smoked apple, suggest a cook equally at home in Southeast Asia, Korea, and the American South.


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    123 N Jefferson St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  49. Rank 49. Bocadillo Market

    Contemporary Spanish


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    2342 N Clark St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    1200 N North Branch St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    912 N State St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    1105 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  53. A mural of Michelle Obama in hanbok presides over a urbane room where Chef Andrew Lim riffs on Korean classics with Wagyu tartare and fire chicken spiked with Chihuahua cheese. The semi-open kitchen and street-facing windows catch the city's pulse, while a curated tea menu substitutes for dessert with quiet intention.


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    401 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    405 N Wabash Ave, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    Contemporary

    Each season brings a new culinary theme—ancient Rome, Hollywood, fin-de-siècle Paris—executed with technical precision and theatrical flair. The tasting menu pivots entirely every few months, making repeat visits feel like discovering a different restaurant.


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    953 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  56. Rank 56. Tre Dita

    Tuscan Italian


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    401 E Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    601 N State St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  58. A speakeasy-dark steakhouse where wet-aged beef meets jazz and a boisterous crowd. The steak frites arrives with buttery béarnaise; the short rib stroganoff swims with hand-cut pasta. Exposed brick and mismatched fixtures frame a room built for noise and conviviality, not quiet contemplation.


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    218 W Kinzie St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  59. Rank 59. Les Nomades

    Haute French


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    222 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    435 N Clark St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    465 N McClurg Ct, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  62. Rank 62. Bisous

    Parisian


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    938 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  63. Rank 63. Kasama

    Filipino

    Tim Flores and Genie Kwon cook Filipino food with striking originality in a spare room, each dish—mussel adobo, shrimp-paste peanut sauce—arriving as both homage and reinvention. The desserts, particularly a corn semifreddo that riffs on mais con yelo, are equally inventive, suggesting a kitchen where tradition and technique speak the same language.


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    1001 N Winchester Ave, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  64. Rank 64. Azul

    Pan Mexican

    On a stark industrial block, Azul materializes as a glowing corner refuge of aqua chairs, street murals, and attentive servers. Pan-Mexican cooking—whole grilled pineapple stuffed with octopus, smoky seafood paella—arrives balanced and visually assured, rewarding the journey inward.


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    1177 N Elston, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    63 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    738 W Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    345 E Ohio St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    925 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  69. Rank 69. Pizz’amici

    Tavern-Style Pizza


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    1215 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    1600 W Grand Ave, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    1357 N Elston Ave, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    85 E Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    2530 N Clark St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  74. Rank 74. Feld

    Contemporary

    Chef Jacob Potashnick orchestrates a produce-focused tasting in Ukrainian Village's open kitchen, drawing ingredients from within four hours of Chicago and coaxing them through multiple preparations—raw asparagus, tempura, juice. A single vegetable becomes the evening's argument, whether maitake mushroom across textures or sour cherries from the backyard trees.


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    2018 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  75. Rank 75. Gilt Bar

    American

    A moody River North retreat where the front bar moves with cocktail-fueled precision and leather banquettes in back promise intimacy. Gilt trades subtlety for impact: fried chicken arrives golden and craggy atop silken potatoes; beef cheek pot pie swims in bone marrow gravy. The cooking is unapologetically rich, the portions designed to defeat you before dessert even arrives.


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    230 W Kinzie St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  76. A coal-fired throwback to red-sauce exuberance, where Hogsalt's latest swings for maximum flavor and portion. House-made pastas anchor the menu—try the lasagna Bolognese rotolo, lighter than tradition dictates—while half chicken emerges from the coals glossy with garlic and fried oregano. The tiramisu arrives booze-soaked and uncompromising.


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    226 W Kinzie Ave, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  77. Rank 77. Rose Mary

    Croatian Eastern European

    Chef Joe Flamm's Rose Mary channels the rustic warmth of Croatian konobas through whitewashed walls and hanging plants in West Fulton Market. Charcoal-fired lamb and delicate rosewater fritule anchor a menu drawing from the Adriatic with assured restraint.


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    932 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  78. Rank 78. Schwa

    Contemporary

    No servers, rap at full volume, and a kitchen that treats classical technique like a toy to dismantle—Schwa remains defiantly itself. A single tasting might pivot from chilled gumbo with blue crab crisps to foie gras ice cream in a cinnamon shell to quail dusted in jerk spice. The cooking is deliberately provocative, sometimes brilliant, always refusing to apologize.


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    1466 N Ashland Ave, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  79. Rank 79. Miru

    Japanese


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    401 E Wacker Dr, FL 11, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    1072 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  81. Rank 81. Bar Sótano

    Modern Mexican


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    443 N Clark St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  82. Rank 82. Momotaro

    Modern Japanese

    Momotaro channels mid-century Japanese fantasy through multiple kitchens, with Gene Kato's grilled jidori kimo and robata beef tsukune earning their reputation. A whiskey list displayed on a departure board and severely rationed uni nigiri reward those who plan ahead.


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    820 W Lake St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  83. Rank 83. Mirra

    Fusion

    Mirca's kitchen splices Indian and Mexican vocabularies with unguarded confidence, sending out dum biryani with lamb barbacoa and scallop ceviche in crispy fenugreek roti alongside housemade achar and salsa tatemado that taste like they belong together. A young crowd packed elbow-to-elbow under exposed brick and ambient noise confirms what the food already knows: restraint has no place here.


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    1954 W Armitage Ave, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    1058 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  85. Rank 85. il Carciofo

    Roman Italian


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    1045 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  86. Rank 86. Jeong

    Korean

    Dave Park and Jen Tran have built something rare here: a tasting menu that treats Korean flavors with the precision of haute cuisine without irony or apology. A disk of salmon tartare arrives under doenjang yuzu gastrique and crisp rice crackers; octopus swims in peach sauce alongside kimchi. The room is sleek and intimate, the cooking inventive and exact.


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    1460 W Chicago Ave Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  87. Rank 87. Elske

    Contemporary

    The Posey's airy dining room and garden patio set a calm stage for cooking that honors ingredients with Danish-inflected restraint. Duck liver tart with salted ramp, composed vegetable plates, and gently handled proteins move across the season; desserts—shaped by Anna Posey's visual arts background—balance considered composition with simplicity. A thoughtful wine and juice program follows.


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    1350 W Randolph St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    200 N Green St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    Mediterranean

    Warm wood lines every surface of this twenty-year-old counter restaurant on West Randolph, where a Mediterranean kitchen turns seasonal ingredients into boldly dressed plates—roasted asparagus with za'atar buttermilk, chickpea hummus studded with oysters mushrooms—each one crowned in herbs and crunchy garnish. The effect is unfussy abundance.


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    615 W Randolph St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  90. A converted 1920s meat warehouse on Fulton Market, now a plush steakhouse where soaring wood arches and concrete columns frame tables suited for serious eating. Prime beef arrives seared hard and flanked by three sauces, while the wine list obliges small pours and the sides—king crab, Boston cream pie—suggest no one here counts calories.


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    1000 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  91. Rank 91. Brasero

    South American


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    1709 W Chicago Ave, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  92. Rank 92. RPM Steak

    Steakhouse

    A bi-level steakhouse wrapped around a marble bar, all polished black and wood, where the crowd never thins and the booths offer prime seats for watching money circulate. The beef spans Japanese wagyu to American prime, cooked pink and edged with thyme-and-rosemary crust, the wine list ranging from Napa to Burgundy.


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    66 W Kinzie St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  93. Rank 93. Mako

    Japanese

    An unmarked storefront on West Lake houses B.K. Park's intimate omakase counter, where twenty-two seats face a team working with sudachi, sesame-pepper soy, and burnt scallion ponzu to remake each piece. The evening unfolds through sushi and braced abalone with equal care, finishing in whiskey caramel and the specific pleasure of being fully seen by the kitchen.


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    731 W Lake St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  94. The pasta station anchors this narrow room where Chef Sarah Grueneberg executes the fundamentals of cucina tipica with quiet precision. Cabbage leaves give way to cacio e pepe made luminous with whey, each strand of al dente pasta coated in Pecorino and cracked pepper—the kind of cooking that fills the counter by early evening.


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    1020 W Madison St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  95. A converted warehouse in West Loop fills nightly with the sound of conversation ricocheting off black-framed windows and an almost endless bar, its kitchen playing confidently with Japanese, Chinese, and Thai influences across dishes like soup dumpling tortellini and turbot with kombu beurre blanc. The rooftop garden feeds the plates; the bartenders fuel the momentum.


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    1516 W Carroll Ave, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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  98. Stone and wood walls hold art above black-and-white tile, where David and Anna Posey's bistro unfolds with French discipline and Midwestern warmth. A halibut arrives with sauce homard and dumplings; a gnocchi swims in gruyere and egg yolk—restrained cooking that asks nothing more of itself than clarity.


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    1360 W Randolph St, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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    1935 N Damen Ave, Chicago, IL · Chicago
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