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Popular dining reservation website OpenTable just released a new list of the top 100 restaurants for 2025 -- and more than a dozen of them are in Chicago. The list, released Tuesday, was "driven by ...

Move over, deep-dish—this small, family-owned birria joint is the authentic Chicago staple that even The Bear star Jeremy ...

Jeffy Mai was the Associate Editor for Eater’s Midwest region, and has been covering Chicago’s dining scene for over a decade. As 2025 draws to a close, capped off by the Eater Awards for the year’s ...

A remarkable 500 restaurants are participating in Chicago’s annual Restaurant Week, a marketing effort designed to drum up business during the quietest part of the year. So the odds are that wherever ...

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Chicago at night reflected in the water - Maksymowicz/Getty Images When it comes to the country's vast and varied foodie landscape, we'd go as far as to suggest that every city has its own unique ...