Macau-style roast pork: Featuring a golden-hued crust, as crispy and crunchy as it looks, with white and mild meat, this is pure gluttony with no chaser.
Try the BLT made with extra-thick bacon and rosemary-and-thyme–encrusted roast beef. Be prepared to either fight your way to the front of the line or just head home with a bag of signature granola. Read more.
You can’t go wrong with any of the choices like the Hog (porkbelly carnitas, salsa verde), Spanish Monster (mushroom duxelle, Spanish chorizo) or T.O. (smoked chicken, peanut salsa). Read more.
Coalfire changed the way we think about thin crust. If you like it super crispy with a little bit of char, this is your new haunt. [Eater 38 Member]
Pizza enthusiasts flock to this far southern spot, where the crispy, extra-thin crust pies are some of the best in the city. Top them with shrimp, sliced beef, ground beef, anchovies or sausage. Read more.
The brunch here is so good—and so affordable—that we're beginning to consider the shaded back patio more as our personal backyard. Read more.
The cheeseburger here may look like a simple, griddled double patty burger, but don't be fooled: this burger is what food writer Francis Lam calls "tremendous work, thin patty diner style magic."
3 Greens brings together Small Cheval burgers, Dillman's pastrami, a massive salad bar, coffee drinks and cocktails in a cozy cafe environment with a putting green in River North. Read more.
You’ll want the spunky fermented cabbage with roasted pineapple, the whole chicken served with sunchoke hot sauce, and, for a worthy splurge, the absolutely transcendent uni-bathed Japanese wagyu. Read more.
Jason Vaughan puts a fresh spin on samosas (here filled with salt cod), somehow manages to make fried cauliflower taste like sesame chicken, and turns out delicate braised-lamb-filled dumplings. Read more.
The must-order entrée is a shatteringly crunchy skate-wing “schnitzel”; and the wok gets a warm welcome into the Italian kitchen, imparting toastiness to everything from chicken livers to strangozze. Read more.
Classics are the name of the game at this new-school dive bar and that means a Strawberry Margarita available for $10.75 that is mixed with tequila blanco, pink curaçao, fresh strawberries, and lime. Read more.
