If you are a food stylist, food blogger, gourmet chef, caffeine junkie or just a keen foodie, you definitely are more worried about your salad being finely chopped than your appearance. To keep up with your food cravings there are these street food fairs, wine tasting events and food festivals in Chicago. For all the foodies who are avid learners; there are cooking workshops, baking workshops, cake making classes in Chicago and a lot more. You can also explore various food truck festivals happening in the Chicago.
Content your taste buds with sumptuous food. Craving for food already? Explore some amazing food events in Chicago.
Settle in for a tasty trip through the most popular restaurants and culinary events in the Windy City! As varied and complex as the city itself, Chicago's culinary scene includes everything from oddball food festivals to century-old establishments. Let's explore some of the must-see local attractions and local favorites of food and drinks in Chicago that make this city a foodie lover's dream come true.
Since 1923, the restaurant has poured enough cups that it could have filled the Chicago River, and even after 100 years, it continues the legacy. Lou Mitchell’s restaurant specializes in breakfast, brunch, and lunch dishes. However, the fun part of the place began in 1958 when they introduced breakfast diners donut holes, and it spread like wildfire around the world! If it can be recognized by the National Register of Historic Places, who are we to skip it?
There is old, then older, and then next in line comes the Berghoff Restaurant in Chicago! The places known for securing the city’s first two liquor licenses after the abolition of prohibition ran a men-only bar until 1969! If you look at it now, it has become a hulk with a restaurant, bar, cafe, and microbrewery. Explore Windy City’s history with cold pints and their infamous wiener schnitzel, sauerbraten, and sausages!
Storytime!! When Billy Goat Sianis found this place, it became an immediate favorite home of Chicago journalists, and these legends helped it to grow enormously making it Billy Goat Tavern & Grill what it is today! Their branches are spread around Chicago at Michigan Avenue (Lower Level), Madison St., Navy Pier, Midway Airport, O’Hare Airport, Merchandise Mart, Wrigleyville, and Yorktown Center! Butt in Anytime for a Cheezborger here and enjoy your time to the fullest.
Chicago amuses us every day because when top restaurants and crazy epic steakhouses come on this list, it makes sense, but when a cafeteria-like Manny’s Cafeteria and Delicatessen shows up in the list, it sparks curiosity about what is so amazing about it! This 70-year-old institution requires you to take a tray and get in order to get delicious meals like oversized corned beef or pastrami sandwiches, with a packet of Tums for dessert. We are ready to bet that you can never leave this place without being absolutely satisfied and full.
Despite Marshall Field being gone for a long time, The Walnut Room , the wood-paneled restaurant inside a local department store, is stubborn enough and lives on to become the oldest eateries in Chicago. Established in 1907, it is a holiday destination and gets so crowded that stepping inside becomes a task! Let us give you a tip: if you don't try Mrs. Hering's chicken pot pie, you are missing the dish invented by a former sales clerk in 1890, and you will regret it for sure!
Every year in Grant Park, there is an outdoor culinary festival called Taste of Chicago . Ah, everyone knows this name, who are we kidding?! Usually taking place over a few days, the event comprises more than 70 local eateries and food vendors offering a variety of cuisines. It is the world's largest festival, plus admission is free. The festival also includes kid-friendly activities, cuisine demos, and live music performances. Millions of people attend it every year!
Are you one of those who go everywhere and say, “Whiskey on the rocks, please?” Well, then, the Chicago Summer Whiskey Tasting Festival will take you to cloud nine. With 20+ different craft small batches and world-renowned whiskies, you will get amazing food and drink specials and a live DJ to groove on when you get drunk and free! Every pour will become a story at this fabulous rooftop and two-story restaurant!
The annual Oktoberfest celebration, usually held in September and October at several festivals across the city, is awaited with insanity in the Windy City. The biggest festival is the Munich-inspired Oktoberfest, which offers authentic German cuisine, beer, and entertainment. Oktoberfest Chicago in Lincoln Park and Old St. Pat's in the West Loop are other noteworthy events. Tasty beer, live music, and German culture; ahh, what can make it better now?
Craft brews and dinosaur bones? Why not? The Field Museum's expansive main hall will be the venue for the Chicago Beer Festival , the domestic and foreign breweries to sample their spring seasonal brews. Once you've had a taste, explore the museum as some of its displays will be accessible to visitors. Remember to greet SUE, the most complete T. rex ever found.
100 different types of tacos are served by Chicago chefs with margaritas at Tacos and Tequila Festival , and we are just getting started! Additionally, vendors will be selling queso and salsa; you can vote for your favorite. A car show, a chihuahua beauty pageant, lucha libre wrestling, and hip-hop musicians from the '90s and '00s, including T.I. and Lil Jon, among the entertainment options.
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