(CHICAGO) - There are certain food trends that seem to skip right over Chicago. Until Taxim opened, Nuevo-Greek appeared to be one of them.

(CHICAGO) - Sunda can pack over 200 guests into its whimsical, sexy dining room. And yet even a restaurant of this size, and with these good looks, can’t compete with the attention garnered by its proprietor Billy Dec....

This town is home to all sorts of regional specialties unavailable almost anywhere else in America.

Is the Taste of Chicago a complete nightmare, or is it Chicago’s signature summer event for good reason?

We offered some of our favorite restaurant critics a theoretical $1,000 to spend dining out in their home city.

Just off the Magnificent Mile, The James wants to be the place where rock stars throw their plasma TVs out the window.

At the rate non-Chicago chefs are opening satellite restaurants here, pretty soon we’re going to look like Las Vegas.

Rich Melman’s success at building one of America’s most unusual restaurant empires began ages ago.

A group of unfriendly regulars isn’t about to keep me from these flaky, savory pastries.

Even though Chicago has all sorts of ancient and prohibitive street-food laws— food trucks, carts and, yes, even hot dog vendors are rarely seen—there are still some soulful dishes being...