Southern Food Restaurant · Near North Side · 73 tips and reviews
Time Out Chicago: Try the fried chicken and waffles from our 100 Best list: The chance to eat Art Smith's incomparable fried chicken from the dinner menu, for breakfast—smothered with Burton’s maple syrup.
Sushi Restaurant · River North · 165 tips and reviews
Time Out Chicago: Try the duck fat yaki soba noodles from our 100 Best list: A bowl of everything you could ask for: thick, satisfying noodles in mustard sauce, fatty morsels of duck and crunchy slivers of cabbage.
108 W Kinzie St (btwn Clark St & LaSalle Blvd), Chicago, IL
Mexican Restaurant · River North · 247 tips and reviews
Time Out Chicago: Try the estrellados y tampiqueña from our 100 Best list: We order steak and eggs, and we challenge you to find a better, more fairly priced version than this aggressively seasoned $12 skirt steak.
619 W Randolph St (at N Desplaines St.), Chicago, IL
New American Restaurant · West Loop · 127 tips and reviews
Time Out Chicago: Try the frozen cucumber mousse from our 100 Best list: Executive pastry chef Bryce Caron turns a humble cucumber into this creamsicle-like dessert, which is unexpectedly rich & surprisingly refreshing
American Restaurant · Noble Square · 53 tips and reviews
Time Out Chicago: Try the calamari from our 100 Best list: Put this calamari stuffed with chicken and pork forcemeat and flavored with Korean chilies and peanuts squarely in that camp.
2230 S Wentworth Ave (btwn W 22nd Pl & W Alexander St), Chicago, IL
Hunan Restaurant · Chinatown · 26 tips and reviews
Time Out Chicago: Try the Home-fed chicken Xiang Xi–style from our 100 Best list: We don’t care about the misleading translation when the result is one of Hu’s best signatures.