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Chicago has popular city eateries that have a National following in when a city gets a franchise .... it is boasted of. After NYC as (disclaimer) Chicago Deep-Dish pizza is renown and has some of its famous ones have a few National locations. The despite thin-crispy crust city info small squares (party-style) is the most common in the city's neighborhoods and some other Midwestern cities.
Other kinds Portillo's was voted To Casual Dining restaurant by TripAdvisor voters.
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- based in Chicago. The cult-favorite restaurant, which has more than 50 locations across multiple states, is known for its Chicago-style hot dogs, Italian beef sandwiches and chocolate cake.
No word on whether it was the chain’s famous cakes or cake shake or hot dogs that put the franchise over the top for travelers.
Italian Beef sandwiches in a sub or hoagie bun are also.
This is ONLY on its noteworthy CASUAL DINING ....
and not ethnic or High-End fine dining that many claim 2nd
between Chicago and LA.
Chicago Deep-Dish - Chicago Hot Dog - Italian Beef
The US is blessed with a vibrant food culture compared with pretty much anywhere else in the World. I've been in Paris 6 times and have still not been impressed by the quality of restaurants there despite doing some research and asking French friends.
Lots of great input and pointless arguments in this thread but Miami and Seattle are two cities with fantastic food scenes that I don't see mentioned often here that deserve a mention. Over the border Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver all are great food cities. Vancouver is especially impressive given their bounty of fresh local ingredients and massive Asian communities contributing some very interesting fusion.
Some people are missing the point about Portland, a city I know well. Portland is a city where people (I would argue a much higher proportion of the populace than most other cites) are very passionate about food and a fantastic meal with fresh local ingredients can be had at any price point. Great food is all about fresh ingredients and that is a limitation most places, most times of the year.
The US is blessed with a vibrant food culture compared with pretty much anywhere else in the World. I've been in Paris 6 times and have still not been impressed by the quality of restaurants there despite doing some research and asking French friends.
Don't repeat this, as this board is highly foreign-centric, with a heavy favoritism for all things European. Nothing in America touches anything in Europe, nothing comes close!! Except New York City, which is this untouchable force with no equal the world over!
Location: Miami (prev. NY, Atlanta, SF, OC and San Diego)
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Agreed...Portland, OR is a great foodie (including beer and wine) city though not #2. Many very good restaurants there. And Seattle does what no other West Coast City (talking Coast, not Vegas) does—actually has very good steakhouses.
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Lots of great input and pointless arguments in this thread but Miami and Seattle are two cities with fantastic food scenes that I don't see mentioned often here that deserve a mention.
Some people are missing the point about Portland, a city I know well. Portland is a city where people (I would argue a much higher proportion of the populace than most other cites) are very passionate about food and a fantastic meal with fresh local ingredients can be had at any price point. Great food is all about fresh ingredients and that is a limitation most places, most times of the year.
Don't repeat this, as this board is highly foreign-centric, with a heavy favoritism for all things European. Nothing in America touches anything in Europe, nothing comes close!! Except New York City, which is this untouchable force with no equal the world over!
I think the Euro praise on this board is in regard to transit, walk-ability, streetlife, and general urbanism. In which case, I think it is objectively true. No US city outside NYC can match a typical big european city on those measures.
They are both strong contenders. IMO, to be a good food city you need 1) density to support of lot of options in close proximity and 2) diversity (and cosmopolitanism) to provide lots of variety/mixing.
LA does really well on diversity, but not as well on density giving its sprawling decentralized make up. Chicago does better on density(and importantly centralization). But, dose a little worse on diversity. So I go back on forth on them.
I would also through SF in the mix, although smaller than the others it does better than LA on density/centralization and better than Chicago on diversity/cosmopolitanism.
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