Joe’s is consistently one of the best steakhouses in town, and you shouldn’t even order steak. Stone crabs are where it’s at.

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

Pequod’s is a fantastic deep-dish pizza place in Lincoln Park.

Ras Dashen is an excellent Ethiopian restaurant in Edgewater with fantastic food.

5 Rabanitos is a casual BYOB restaurant in Pilsen serving seriously great Mexican food.

Lou Malnati’s is a classic Chicago deep-dish pizza spot, and the one we rely on.

The Publican is a Medieval styled mecca of all things beer, pork, and oysters. If that’s not appealing, you can’t sit with us.

A Mexican seafood celebration. Prawns so good you’ll be begging for more.

We’d ditch all of our family and friends for a bag of seafood at The Angry Crab.

Gibsons is a classic Chicago steakhouse that deserves its reputation.

We wanted to hate it, but we can’t. RPM Steak can hang with the Chicago steakhouse classics any day.

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

Etta is a big restaurant in Wicker Park serving great wood-fired food.

Sushi-san is an upbeat restaurant in River North with high-quality sushi and tasty small plates.

Vito & Nicks is a Southside institution that has excellent tavern-style “cracker crust” pizza.

Burt’s Place is serving pan-style deep dish pizza in Morton Grove.