Eater restaurants in Chicago
Alinea, Smyth and Kasama are the most critically recognised Chicago restaurants recognised by Eater. We track 42 in total, ordered by how many professional critics write about them.
Updated August 2026
Every Eater restaurant we track in Chicago
How this list works
Every restaurant here carries a recorded mention from Eater 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 Eater restaurants gets no page, so this is a list we can stand behind rather than a page built to exist.