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Currently, she delves into the city’s dining scene, food trends and other aspects of the industry.

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Her work in Chicago has sent her everywhere from the Cubs World Series parade and the city’s finest restaurants to crime scenes and teacher picket lines. Ariel CheungĪriel Cheung is the food editor at the Chicago Tribune.

A Chicago native, she spent time in the Los Angeles area as a beat reporter before returning in 2015. Before that, she was a Metpro resident covering health, crime, immigration, courts, Chicago Park District, police, the Cubs and more. Grace Wong has written about the restaurant industry and food for the Chicago Tribune since 2017. Phil Vettel is a former Chicago Tribune restaurant critic. He is author of the 2018 book, 'Barrel-Aged Stout and Selling Out: Goose Island, Anheuser-Busch and How Craft Beer Became Big Business.' Phil Vettel Josh Noel has worked for the Chicago Tribune since 2005, and covered beer and the beer industry since 2009. Adam LukachĪdam Lukach is a former reporter with the Food & Dining section. Previously, he's written for Epicurious, Serious Eats, Grub Street, New York Magazine, and the Washington Post. You can often find him around the city eating a questionable number of meals for research purposes. Nick Kindelsperger is a Chicago Tribune food critic and has written about food and dining for the Chicago Tribune since 2016. Previously she was a correspondent for Gourmet magazine and a fixer for Anthony Bourdain. She trained at El Bulli in Spain and cooked in Alaska.

Born in Hong Kong, raised in Chicago, she lived in Los Angeles, and Paris where she graduated from Le Cordon Bleu. Louisa Chu is a Chicago Tribune food critic and co-host of the Chewing podcast. As many meal kits are over $40, and many of those feed two people or more, don’t take a $$$$ as prohibitive.

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Prices are based on the average cost of a main dish, plus a side. Hungry for a sandwich? The filter will pop up seven recommendations on our list. Takeout 100 is searchable by ZIP code, address or town, and can be filtered for food type and price range. From barbecue on the South Side, to house-cured salmon on the North Shore, to handmade dumplings out west, these are the restaurants that have been sustaining us, and Chicago, for the past nine months. Which is why your Food & Dining team has compiled this list of 100 Chicago-area restaurants and bars offering our favorite takeout dishes. Or you get into a rut, ordering the same thing over and over again.

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Full meals, DIY meal kits - complete with reheating directions and even playlists - and traditional a la carte, it’s all there, as close as your cellphone.īut sometimes, it’s hard to choose. With dining rooms closed since late October - and with no signs of opening soon - and outdoor seating limited by space, costs and winter, restaurants have stepped up their takeout game, and indeed have been doing so since March 2020. Takeout, once an afterthought, something to grab on the way home from work, has become a lifeline to restaurants - and to us. (Chicago Tribune photos/Chicago Tribune photos) From pizza to doughnuts, burritos to Spam musubi, here are our favorite takeout orders and restaurants in the Chicago area.

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