Photograph: Jeff Marini Photograph: Jeff Marini Chicago’s 50 Best Things to Eat Avec’s bacon-wrapped dates. Au Cheval’s fried bologna sandwich. Loaf Lounge’s The Bear chocolate cake. These are just a few of our favorite things. By Ari Bendersky, Carly Boers, Amy Cavanaugh, Peter Gianopulos, Cate Huguelet, John Kessler, Titus Ruscitti, Lisa Shames, and Audarshia Townsend July 10, 2023, 6:00 am Potted Carrots Daisies Oysters El Che Steakhouse & Bar Baked French Feta Lula Cafe Steak Tartare Obélix Smoked Fish Dip Monteverde Restaurant & Pastificio Beef Nihari Momos Wazwan Al Pastor Taco Asian Cuisine Express Black Truffle Puff Bread Apolonia Chorizo-Stuffed Medjool Dates Avec Lamb and Coriander Dumplings Qing Xiang Yuan Dumplings Chile Con Queso Lonesome Rose Halloumi Taco Evette’s Gizzards Virtue Restaurant Fried Smelts Dear Margaret Duck Carnitas Taco Taqueria Chingón Original Egg Roll Sochi Saigonese Kitchen Sizzling Sisig Boonie’s Filipino Restaurant Catfish Po’ Boy Daisy’s Po-Boy and Tavern U.S. Pizza Cup Winner Paulie Gee’s Chicken Pot Pie Bang Bang Pie & Biscuits Corned Beef Sandwich Manny’s Cafeteria & Delicatessen Stuffed Cabbage Mott St. Birria Plate Birrieria Zaragoza Hot Dog Dave’s Red Hots Butter Chicken Calzone Superkhana International Rib Tips/Link Combo Honey 1 BBQ Fried Whole Fluke HaiSous Vietnamese Kitchen Beans and Greens Melt J.T.’s Genuine Sandwich Shop Patty Melt Top Notch Beefburgers Pepper Soup Vee Vee’s African Restaurant Beijing Duck Dinner Sun Wah BBQ Fried Housemade Bologna Sandwich Au Cheval Mejillones Tzuco Chaufa Aeropuerto Tanta Roast Chicken à la Grand-Mère Mon Ami Gabi The B. Franklin Tempesta Market Steak Burrito Mi Tocaya Antojería Italian Beef Al’s #1 Italian Beef Fried Chicken and Biscuits Split-Rail Sausage Pizza Pat’s Pizza and Ristorante Eggplant Parmesan Elina’s Black Marble Pavlova Valhalla Oh My! Caramel Pie Beatrix Tahini Chocolate Chip Cookie Sugar Moon Bakery The Bear Chocolate Cake Loaf Lounge Ube and Huckleberry Basque Cake Kasama Baba Au Rhum The Loyalist Pistachio Old Fashioned Doughnut Doughnut Vault Baklava Milkshake Ragadan Four-Layer Coconut Cake Community Tavern