Time Out restaurants in Chicago

Girl and the Goat, Aba and The Gage are the most critically recognised Chicago restaurants recognised by Time Out. We track 19 in total, ordered by how many professional critics write about them.

Updated August 2026

Every Time Out restaurant we track in Chicago

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How this list works

Every restaurant here carries a recorded mention from Time Out 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 Time Out restaurants gets no page, so this is a list we can stand behind rather than a page built to exist.

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