Illinois

Nana Organic – Chicago, Illinois – Closed

Nana Organic appeared in Season 12, Episode 6 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Gettin’ Fresh,” which aired September 26, 2011, as a Chicago Bridgeport neighborhood organic cafe building a seasonal breakfast and lunch menu around certified organic and locally sourced ingredients with the kind of genuine farm-to-table commitment that the episode title called for. The […]

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Chicago, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 12

Garifuna Flava – Chicago, Illinois

Garifuna Flava on West 63rd Street in Chicago’s Marquette Park neighborhood has been serving the food of the Garifuna people — an Afro-Indigenous Caribbean culture centered in Belize, Honduras, and Guatemala — to Chicago’s Belizean community and the curious eaters who discovered it since it opened. It appeared in Season 12, Episode 3 of Diners,

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Carribean, Chicago, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 12

The Shanty – Wadsworth, Illinois

The Shanty on US Highway 41 in Wadsworth has been a Lake County institution since it opened, combining American comfort food, fresh seafood, and steaks in a setting that earns the drive from Chicago and Milwaukee alike. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 10 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Dives Worth a Drive,” which aired

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American, Illinois, Restaurants, Seafood, Season 7

Taste of Peru – Chicago, Illinois

Taste of Peru on North Clark Street in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood has been bringing authentic Peruvian cooking to the city since it opened, serving ceviche, lomo saltado, aji de gallina, and the full Peruvian coastal and highland food traditions in a setting that earns a devoted following from Chicago’s Latin American community and the

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Chicago, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 8

Honky Tonk BBQ – Chicago, Illinois

Honky Tonk BBQ on South Racine in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood has been smoking low-and-slow since it opened, bringing serious Southern BBQ to a Mexican-American neighborhood that appreciated the food immediately and made it a local institution. It appeared in Season 7, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Barbequed, Baked and Brined,” which aired October

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Barbecue, Chicago, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 7

The Depot American Diner – Chicago, Illinois – Closed

The Depot American Diner appeared in Season 7, Episode 1 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Upper Crust,” which aired August 3, 2009, as a Chicago West Side diner serving scratch-made American comfort food to a neighborhood that needed exactly that restaurant. The Depot has since permanently closed. Quick Facts Restaurant: The Depot American DinerCity: Chicago,

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Chicago, Comfort Food, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 7

Dell Rhea’s Chicken Basket – Willowbrook, Illinois

In 1938, two local farm women walked into Irv Kolarik’s gas station lunch counter on Route 66 in what was then rural Hinsdale, Illinois and overheard him complaining about running a gas station when he’d rather be running a restaurant. They offered him their secret fried chicken recipe in exchange for a steady supply contract

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Illinois, Restaurants, Season 5

Tufano’s Vernon Park Tap – Chicago, Illinois

Tufano’s Vernon Park Tap has been on West Vernon Park Place in Chicago’s University Village neighborhood since 1930, which makes it one of the oldest Italian-American restaurants in the city. It appeared in Season 5, Episode 8 of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, “Just Like Yesterday,” which aired January 26, 2009. Guy Fieri found a multigenerational

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Chicago, Illinois, Restaurants, Season 5

The Original Vito & Nick’s Pizzeria – Chicago, Illinois

Vito and Nick Barraco opened their pizzeria on South Pulaski Road on Chicago’s southwest side in 1932, originally as a tavern that served food. The pizza program became the focus over time, and Vito and Nick’s developed one of the most distinctive styles in Chicago: a thin, crispy, cracker-like crust cut into squares rather than

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Chicago, Illinois, Italian, Pizza, Restaurants, Season 5
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