Below is the full list of Chicago restaurants and bars that have been featured on the blog since 2012.
Alphabetical order by restaurant
(numbers indicate multiple posts):
3 Arts Club Café
A10
Acadia (2)
Ada Street (2, 3)
Antique Taco
Appellation
Au Cheval (2)
Avec (2, 3)
The Bad Apple
The Bakery at Fat Rice
Balena (2)
Band of Bohemia
Bang Bang Pie Shop (2)
Bar Pastoral
Bar Siena
Beatnik
Beatrix (2)
Belly Q
Big Jones
Big Shoulders Coffee
Big Star
Black Dog Gelato
Blackbird
Blue Door Farm Stand
Bobtail Ice Cream Company
Bodega at Barrio
Bohemian House
Boiler Room
Boleo
Brickhouse Tavern
Butcher & the Burger (2)
Cafe Ba-Ba-Reeba
Cafe Spiaggia
Celeste
Cellar Door Provisions
CH Distillery
Cherry Circle Room
Cherubs at Logan Square Farmers Market
The Chicago Diner
Cindy’s
City Mouse
Coalfire
Coda di Volpe
Cold Storage
County Barbeque
Da Lobsta
Davanti Enoteca
The Dawson
DMK Burger Bar
de Quay
Doughnut Vault
Dove’s Luncheonette
DryHop Brewers
Duck Duck Goat (2)
Dusek’s
Eataly
El Cid II
Elizabeth Restaurant
Ema
En Hakkore (2)
Estrella Negra
Fahlstrom’s Fresh Fish Market
Farmhouse
Fat Rice (2)
The Fat Shallot
Fig & Olive
Floriole Cafe & Bakery
Forbidden Root
Frontier
Furious Spoon
Gaslight Coffee Roasters
Gene & Georgetti
Giant
Girl & the Goat (2)
The Goddess & Grocer
Grange Hall Burger Bar
GT Fish & Oyster (2)
Homeslice
Homestead on the Roof (2)
Honey Butter Fried Chicken
Hopleaf
Hot Chocolate
Intelligentsia Coffee in Logan Square
Jam
Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams
Julius Meinl
Knife & Tine
La Colombe
La Creperie
La Sirena Clandestina
Lao Sze Chuan
Latinicity
Left Coast
Lillie’s Q (2)
Little Goat Diner (2)
Longman & Eagle (2, 3)
Lost Lake
Lula Cafe (2, 3, 4, 5)
Mahalo
Masa Azul
Masada
Maude’s Liquor Bar
Meli Cafe
Mexique
Mi Tocaya Antojería
Michael Jordan’s Steak House (2)
Momotaro
Mon Ami Gabi
Monteverde
Mott St.
Nacional 27
Naha
Nando’s Peri-Peri
Native Foods Café
Nico Osteria
Oiistar (2)
Osteria Langhe
Owen & Engine
Parachute
Parson’s Chicken and Fish (2)
Parts and Labor
Pequod’s
Piccolo Sogno
Portillo’s
Presidio
The Publican
Publican Quality Meats
Pub Royale
Quiote
The Radler (2)
Red June Cafe
Reno
Revolution Brewing
Rhine Hall Distillery
Rhyme or Reason
River Roast
The Roost
Roots Handmade Pizza
RPM Italian
Shake Shack
Siena Tavern
Small Cheval
Smoque BBQ
Spilt Milk
Spinning J
Split-Rail
Stan’s Donuts
Summer House Santa Monica
Sunda
Swift & Sons
Table, Donkey & Stick
Takito Kitchen
Tanta (2)
Taxim
Three Dots and a Dash
TWO
Uncle Joe’s
Vermilion
Wasabi
The Winchester
Xoco
ZED451 (2)
Restaurants that have since closed (but are not forgotten):
Ampersand Wine Bar
Analogue
The Bedford
Belly Shack
Bottlefork
Cantina 1910
Carriage House
Catalpa Kitchen
Coppervine
Duran European Sandwiches Café
Eleven City Diner Lincoln Park
endgrain
Francesca’s Forno
Graham Elliot Bistro
Grandma J’s Local Kitchen
Hot Doug’s
iNG
Kinmont
The Local
Mezcaleria Las Flores
Nightwood
Owen+Alchemy
The Peasantry
Perennial Virant
Prasino
Sink|Swim
Smalls Smoke Shack & More
Standard Market Grill
Table Fifty-Two
Tavernita
Three Aces
Tippling Hall
Trenchermen
Yusho