Below, find Eater Chicago’s picks for its essential bars and restaurants. For the May 2025 update, we’ve trimmed the list to 20, with the biggest loss being the closure of Edzo’s Burger Shop.

Curious Goods at the Bake Oven Inn operates on Bake Oven Road in Germansville. Mother's Day is right around the corner, and to help celebrate the moms, grandmas and other maternal figures in your ...

With Terzo left unrecognizable, the family switched gears and will add seats and expanded hours to Broders’ Cucina Italiana, their first restaurant. BIPOC Foodways Alliance started Immigrant ...

Nicholas Webber and Jacob Jordan have turned their longtime pop-up concept into a full-fledged restaurant-bar ...