The 50 Most Delicious Chicago Food Blogs
We’re lucky in Chicago. Almost any place you look for good food you’ll find it, and our city’s food blogs are no exception. Covering everything from home cooking for specialized diets to high-end restaurant reviews and where to find the city’s best pizzas, the blogs here caught our attention for their quality and style.
In a food city like Chicago, it’s easy to find people who love to cook and eat. We started with a list of nearly 350 Chicago-based blogs and narrowed down to our top 50 based on the caliber, credibility, and reading experience. Anyone can write about food in Chicago, but not everyone can do it well. The best food bloggers in Chi are on this list. If you’re looking for something beyond food, we’ve put together a list of 75 things you can do in Chicago (with kids).
A Grace Full Life
This blog is a laugh riot, and speaks like our inner stream of consciousness. Although the poetry-like flow takes getting used to, Kari does an amazing job of helping our inner moms feel understood. We love her recipe section for its simplicity, high-flavor, and taste of homemade comfort food. The fact that everything uses only 4 ingredient? That’s icing on the cake. To get a good idea what she’s about, check out her post on how a pierogi pizza and two old high school friends saved her life. It’s a long read, but a fun one.
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Adventures in a Tiny Kitchen
Master Chef fans, this blog’s for you. Elise Mayfield of Master Chef fame is also a Chicago food
blogger. She shares her culinary adventures, mishaps, and even a few (really good) recipes on Adventures in a Tiny Kitchen. Just back from a 6 month hiatus, she’s promising frequent content updates and a lot of fun in the kitchen to come.
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Alison’s Wonderland Recipes
If you love indulging your sweet tooth, finding healthy alternatives to delectably guilty snacks, and can’t resist a good book, Alison is your girl. The Wonderland Recipes blog is an award-winning culinary blog with a lot of personality, but it’s also kid-friendly. You won’t find much reference to her Chicago home here, but her Lavender Lemon Eclairs make up for what she lacks in Chi-Town pride.
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A Little Time and a Keyboard
It’s not really a food blog, but the restaurant and activity reviews on this blog make it worth adding to the list. If you’ve got little ones, Mel and Kat’s blog is a survival guide you won’t want to miss. The pair also post recipes and arts & crafts that are easy enough for little ones, but yield great results.
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All Natural Chicago Catering
This company blog is a few things you wouldn’t expect from an ordinary small business blog, and we mean that in a good way. It’s opinionated, direct, and stands up for owner Tess Kearns beliefs about food and modern living. You’ll find everything from menu updates to recipes and commentaries on recent sports games or catering events. Definitely worth your time if you’re interested in natural and organic foods, we loved her post on teaching kids about food.
Anti Foodie
Unapologetically honest and a plain food fan, the anti-foodie is what everyone who is tired of people photographing their meals instead of enjoying them, and dishing the goods on gourmet grub but skipping the guilty foods we all secretly love. Written by a man whose wife is a big fan of great food, it’s a dash of humor topped with good eats.
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Ashley Gilday
If you eat a plant-based diet, check out this blog. Ashley Gilday isn’t a one woman show – her blog includes entries from influential bloggers around the U.S. A Chicago local, she often includes restaurant and store reviews with a focus on vegan and vegetarian options. The latest addition to her site is a special section for moms. Sam Turner’s review of Seasons 52 on Ashley Gilday is making us hungry…definitely worth the read!
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Back for Seconds
WARNING: If you’re on a diet, skip this one. It’s too delish, and loaded with guilt-ridden recipes that will make your taste buds dance. Back for Seconds is page after page of dessert and dinnertime decadence you can’t help but love. You will be Back for Seconds, so go on. Throw out your bathroom scale before reading.
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