🌭 Best in Chicago

My thoughts on the best restaurant options in Chicago. In most cases, there are lots of great options, but these are my top choices. Best Tavern Style Pizzas
  • Middle Brow Brewing (only on Tues)
  • Pat’s Pizza (on Lincoln)
  • Vito & Nicks
Best Deep Dish Pizzas
  • George’s (Edgewater)
  • Burt’s
  • Lou Malnati’s
Best Other Pizza
  • Paulie Gee’s (Detroit)
  • Zaza’s (NY)
  • Piece (New Haven)
  • Middlebrow (Artisan)
Best Smash Burgers
  • Taco Sublime (Marz, Desert Hawk)
  • Loyalist
  • Red Hot Ranch
  • Stop Along
Best “chi-cAh-go” Experience
  • Portillos
  • Also good: Weiner’s Circle
  • Home Depot
Best Bagels
  • Tilly’s
  • Pretty Good Bagels
Best Pho
  • Pho Nam Lua (Pho 5 Lua)
  • Pho Loan (lots of other goodies)
  • Phodega (location & vibe)
Best Ramen
  • Akahoshi Ramen
  • Kitakata Ramen Ban Nai
Best Taco Bell
  • Taco Bell Cantina (Logan Square)
  • Taco Bell (Clybourn)
Best Place to do Work during day
  • Daisies
Best Coffeeshop on a nice day outside
  • Hexe
Best Coffeeshop on a cold day
  • Good Ambler
  • Sawada
  • Star Lounge
Best Pastries
  • Sugar Moon
  • Daisies
  • Mindy’s
Best Pies
  • Cadinho (passion fruit pie/tart)
  • Hoosier Mama (fruit pies)
  • Sweet Mandy B (various cream pies)
  • Spinning J