Condé Nast Traveler restaurants in Chicago

Alinea, Kasama and Au Cheval are the most critically recognised Chicago restaurants recognised by Condé Nast Traveler. We track 21 in total, ordered by how many professional critics write about them.

Updated August 2026

Every Condé Nast Traveler restaurant we track in Chicago

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How this list works

Every restaurant here carries a recorded mention from Condé Nast Traveler and sits among the most critically acclaimed restaurants we index in Chicago. Ordering is by total professional critic mentions, not user reviews or star averages.

A city with fewer than 5 recorded Condé Nast Traveler restaurants gets no page, so this is a list we can stand behind rather than a page built to exist.

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