17 Must Try Chicago Foods and Drinks | Best Food in Chicago

Chicago has some of the best food in the United States. In Chicago you'll find iconic dishes like Italian beef, deep dish pizza and a classic Chicago style dog. But you'll also find great barbecue, tacos, and classic sandwiches like the Jibarito or the breaded steak sandwich. Chicago takes their food very seriously and here are 17 things you should eat when visiting Chicago.
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[@dianemccormick6669]

Lou Malnattis pizza is excellent. Their sauce is outstanding and the deep dish and butter crust is excellent.

[@JohnAntonacci1]

Other Chicago area foods include pizza puffs, mushroom caps(they are fried), Chicago style tamale, pork chop sandwiches at Jim's Original, Maxwell Street Polish links on a hot dog bun, shrimp de jonghe, Eli's Cheesecake. I think there's more, I'll see if I could recommend others.

[@NachoMamaNow]

Vito & Nick's for the best crispy thin crust anywhere. For beef go to the source, the place that invented the Italian beef, Al's on Taylor Street. You're welcome!

[@maureencora1]

I Love Chicago Greek Gyros.

[@JustinBrehm]

Great video, thank you for taking us along on your journey

[@pubtravels]

Great video. Love it!!!

[@mustacheTV01]

Your voice and style of vlog reminds me of watching Food Insider, BuzzFeed, and Watch Mojo. Watching these kinds of videos is both informative and satisfying. Keep up the good work, and thanks for the 'Worth It' adventure! :)

[@markhundley9963]

We don't call it "Tavern-Style" pizza. We just call it "Pizza". 🙂🙂🙂

[@AdamandMadalyn]

You're exactly right! Just wanted to explain the difference to non Chicagoans.

[@thekid4142]

Phil’s pizza in Bridgeport. 1102 w 35th Street 🔥

[@michaelhagemann5999]

The Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder Co serves a Pizza Pot Pie, their Meatball sandwich is great too. They're in Lincoln Park on N Clark St.

[@kylesingactor]

Nice work! You really did your homework. Most folks never get past hot dogs and pizza. You got the Jibarito, Chicken Vesuvio, and Italian Ice in there. I would add Harold’s Chicken with mild sauce. The Original Rainbow Cone. And German Food at Laschet’s Inn. Great work tho!!

[@JS-cz5zm]

Chicago is such a great American city and you do a great job of hitting some of the highlights.

[@doubleoseven273]

Also a very corrupt city

[@Tom80990]

@@doubleoseven273 Name one city that isn't corrupt.

[@shreyasm5214]

Hey Madalyn, you describe food that you eat so well and you're pretty too ;)

[@doubleoseven273]

All great food, and luckily you can find all those delicacy’s in just about any city

[@johnnicpon5783]

You could NOT get a good Chicago style Beef sandwich in other cities until recently. And thats thanks to Portillo's starting to go nationwide. Previously you could only get Philly sandwiches. As far as deep dish goes, we love Lou Malnati's. Their tomato sauce is killer. If we are in more of a cheesy mood, then it's Giordano's. One item you left out is a good Maxwell Street Polish. Yum! And there are sooo many great places in the city to get a good thin crust (I am a bit of a traditionalist on this, Sausage and mushroom, yea baby). Hard to go wrong.

[@BallparkHunter]

You forgot mild sauce covered in chicken wings from iconic places like Harold's. Also, where was Maxwell Street Polish?

[@doughszynk6143]

Exactly, no any Polish food, like at least kielbasa or pierogi, in Chicago is a big no no. Poor conten, barbecue is everywhere, for example, not only in Chicago.

[@thomasgaertner370]

Countryside Saloon in DesPlaines, IL has some of the best tavern style pizza in the Chicago Land area. Excellent spot!!

[@jerrywoods4066]

The old Bellini recipe

[@CesarDelgado-fu2nd]

Mama Lunas congress Pizza 🍕 😊

[@pdeakneam]

Just see this piza and see your eating look like yummy

[@LawrenceDomkowski]

Leon's Barbeque for the best barbecue in the city.

[@toddkleeblatt613]

Joes pizzeria in wheeling has phenomenal thin crust and their bacon is so good it should be a sin

[@billbeliakoff5589]

Just a couple of heads ups. 1st, You show and mention Johnnie's in Elmwood Park. The sign outside says "Charcoal Grilled". Unfortunately they no longer use charcoal. 2nd, I went to Super Dog once and while the dog was good I noticed that the person placing fries in the box was doing it with his bare hands. Never went back. That was several years ago and things probably have changed.

[@khabbad]

wow with their bare hands! Insane, how do gloves make it better?

[@wickedness9866]

Dukes beef wet...is hands down best beef

[@LawrenceDomkowski]

Moody's Pub for the best burgers.

[@misane2212]

Greek food should b right under Italian beef cause it all over Chicago Especially Gyros

[@LawrenceDomkowski]

Best fried chicken: Harold's Chicken Shack.

[@doubleoseven273]

100%

[@kennethquinnies6023]

With the crime rate etc in chicago, I will only go there if God tells me to.

[@lukerabin5079]

For the 15 years I lived in Chicago, I never, ever ate deep dish pizza. I’ve never met a Chicagoan who would admit to eating it.

[@PEANUTBUTTERNINJA]

Lou Malnatis Chicago Deep Dish is the perfect pizza.

[@user-gb5qk3ks6v]

@@PEANUTBUTTERNINJAit’s not

[@user-vz5xe3ov2v]

I hate when people lie. Who hasn’t ate deep dish and there from Chicago? Get your lying ass outta here !

[@tammyross7959]

My Pi Pizza

[@stevenclarke5606]

Is gluten free food easy to find in Chicago?

[@mikeg.4211]

You started off well, but then really started falling down. People don't generally put giardiniera on hot dogs; people often put sweet peppers on Italian beef, which wasn't mentioned, as if only giardiniera is ever used, and apparently is put on everything all the time; only south siders eat tavern style (with its annoying little squares) most of the time, and a lot of Chicago does prefer deep dish; giardiniera is not a "food, it is a condiment, but for some reason you seem obsessed with it. For Greek food, you didn't mention saganaki. For steak houses, you didn't mention Morton's. For barbecue, you didn't mention ribs at all, which is a Chicago staple.

[@amandahollins5789]

What

[@wickedness9866]

You don't sound chicago. At all...what are you on. Maybe a northern Wrigleyville person

[@robertmalfy8552]

Great food but you take your life in your hands when go to the shit show that Chicago is sorry my life is worth more to me than a hotdog