I’m planning a trip to NYC, and I also happen to be a New York Magazine subscriber. NY Mag has a list of “The Thousand Best” restaurants and bars in NYC, and I’ve been using it to help plan my trip. Obviously, this is still pretty subjective, but it’s fun to read through and I love their editorial for each place.
https://nymag.com/listings/search
I’m wondering if Chicago has something similar — and if not, that could be a fun project for this group 😉
by discoteen66
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Eater has a top 38 and I believe they might have some cuisine specific ones as well
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The Infatuation is another one.
However all of these online/print lists of best whatever’s are not really based on much. Usually just name hype from a chef/restaurant group or whatever people scrape off Reddit/food blogs/etc… doubtful a lot of them even try the restaurants before writing about them since their blurbs read usually more as recaps of the biggest hits.
This sub has plenty of lists of places to go. If you ask this sub (or anywhere) for a list of the “best restaurants” you’re bound to get almost get a different answer from each person.
Try to think of cuisine you’d like or whatever and take a look at the lists on this sub. That’s a lot more reliable than the “journalism brought by ChatGPT” you’ll get from the publisher lists (outside of Michelin).
Subscribe to Michael Nagrant’s substack, The Hunger, and you can see his evolving list of 131: [https://thehunger.substack.com/p/104-essential-chicago-restaurants](https://thehunger.substack.com/p/104-essential-chicago-restaurants)
You can use Eater, Infatuation, and this subreddit.
https://www.chicagomag.com/chicago-magazine/august-2024/chicagos-50-best-restaurants-ranked/
Among all the lists, I can only agree with half of them. For example, Superkhana is just okay to me. To each their own.
Chicago magazine recently released a list with the top 50 restaurants in Chicago. I found it to be quite diverse and a solid overall.