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

The OG Chicago steakhouse. Gibsons is a classic spot.

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.