Chicago

          restaurants

There are simply too many restaurants in Chicago-over 6,000-to list here. For an extensive listing of the best downtown restaurants, consult Chicago magazine, the Chicago Tribune's dining section, or the Zagat Survey (available in bookstores).

Entrée Chicago

this site that includes reviews and helps you make dining choices among 700 Chicago restaurants. If you like Legal Seafood in Boston, for instance, Entrée can figure out where you should eat in Chicago. Once you have found a place you like, simply click and get a map of Chicago with the restaurant located for you.

Metromix Restaurant Finder

The site enables you to search 9,000 Chicago-area restaurants by cuisine type, neighborhood or price range and make free opentable.com dining reservations via the internet (online reservations currently only for the expensive places-when your parents come to town).

Guide to Chefs of Chicago

The following Guide to Chefs of Chicago was compiled through an informal survey of Chicago restaurant critics and food writers, who were asked to name outstanding Chicago chefs who have made significant contributions to the city's diverse culinary heritage. More than sixty chefs were named in the survey conducted in September 1998. Three are not listed since they are no longer working in Chicago.