Somerset is a restaurant in the Gold Coast serving excellent American food that you should be eating immediately.

Gibsons is a classic Chicago steakhouse that deserves its reputation.

Excellent sushi in an unlikely spot. This tiny restaurant at the bottom of the Hilton hotel on Mies van der Rohe Way street is worth a trip for any real sushi fan.

Table Fifty-Two delivers country club style Southern cuisine. We'll pay all the money to be members, just let us in the door.

Funky, fresh, and delicious. Big & little's is one of the best and most interesting restaurants you can eat at.

Marisol, in the Museum of Contemporary Art, serves delicious seasonal American food.

Maple & Ash sits in the middle of the Chicago steakhouse Venn diagram. It’s both new-school and old.

Nico Osteria is a seafood-focused Italian restaurant in the Gold Coast’s Thompson Hotel.

Hugo’s is a classic and fancy seafood spot, and the fish counterpart to Gibsons’ steaks.

Three Arts Cafe is a beautiful restaurant inside the atrium of the RH store. This place is one of a kind and a great afternoon hang.

La Storia is a reliably good upscale Italian Restaurant in the Gold Coast.

Blue Door Kitchen is a nice but not too fancy Gold Coast restaurant in an old mansion. The courtyard patio is beautiful for when it's nice outside.

Halal Guys is a famous NYC food truck that's on the full-blown franchise route. It's a cheap and good carry-out situation in the Gold Coast.

A formal French-Vietnamense restaurant in the Gold Coast that’s not the coolest place in town but is quiet, well-run, and good.

25 Degrees is a solid, dimly-lit burger and beer kind of spot in River North. We approve.

Jake Melnick’s is all about the wings. Firecracker wings in particular.