Udupi Palace serves a completely meatless menu, so the vegetarian diner has free rein to explore. That said, avoid over-ordering appetizers—not that the vegetable samosa, pakora, and vada at Udupi aren't tasty, you just run the risk of filling up on these fried, carb-laden items before making it to the main event, which for me is the delicious selection of curries. More

Tahoora stays open late, has ample seating, and serves a saccharine rainbow of treats. Think Willy Wonka, by way of Karachi. Though there are loads of tempting options, it's the more subtle brown pistachio halwa that shouldn't be overlooked. More

Given Chicago's recent heat wave, perhaps it was only natural that I went running for the ice cream parlors. On the other hand, I sip malts in winter, spring, and fall, so the heat may just be an excuse for the calories. In any case, after searching high and low, north and south, here are five of the best milkshakes in the city of Chicago. More

East Rogers Park is not exactly overrun with pizzerias and Gruppo Di Amici is the only restaurant in the area that attempts a higher end pie. The dimly lit restaurant has a welcoming feel and the service is great. But the pizza came up short. More

There are plenty of burgers around that are better, but there are a lot more that are worse. As a burger destination, I wouldn't run back to Hop Häus, but for a sports bar, it has some of the better burgers around. More

"Virtually every inch of the pie had at least one layer of gyro meat on it." Slice–Serious Eats contributor Daniel Zemans checks in with another piece of intel on the Windy City pizza scene. Daniel also blogs about Chicagoland pizza... More

For a parent of a truculent two year old, there's nothing more relieving than a restaurant that babysits and cooks for you. Of course, unless you count fast food chains where grown dudes dress up in furry character suits and... More

"The crust is the thinnest, crackeriest (now officially a word) crust I have ever encountered." Daniel Zemans, our man in Chicago, checks in with another piece of intel on the Windy City pizza scene. Daniel also blogs about Chicagoland pizza... More

Daniel Zemans, our man in Chicago, checks in with another piece of intel on the Windy City pizza scene. Daniel also blogs about Chicagoland pizza with his friends on the Chicago Pizza Club blog. --The Mgmt. Along the northern border... More

Daniel Zemans, our man in Chicago, checks in with another piece of intel on the Windy City pizza scene. Daniel also blogs about Chicagoland pizza with his friends on the Chicago Pizza Club blog. --The Mgmt. Delisi's has been a... More

If Edward Hopper were Korean, he probably wouldn't have modeled his famous Nighthawks painting after a Greenwich Village diner. Rather, he might have considered Susie's Noon Hour Grill in Chicago's Rogers Park. Susie's doesn't have much neon but there's... More

Chicken boti at Khan BBQ When looking for serious ethnic spots, I find if you're the only white anglo dude in the joint, you're probably in the right place. Khan BBQ, on Chicago's Devon street—a strip of Pakistani, Indian... More

Ed Levine made ethnic and cheap eats safe for America, or at least New Yorkers, anyway. In some ways, his seminal work, New York Eats, put pastrami and pizza on the same table as foie and truffles. It's precisely why... More