‘Essential Restaurants’ List Features 2 In Chicago

CHICAGO — Two Chicago restaurants landed on Eater’s list of essential restaurants in America. The list is curated by the publication’s national critic, Bill Addison, who writes that he traveled across 36 cities in 34 weeks to compile the list.

Addison says the restaurants on the “essential” list are the kinds of places that become indispensable to their neighborhoods.

The list released on Tuesday is the fifth edition in Eater’s series and includes 17 restaurants appearing for the first time. Five restaurants on the list have been included in the compilations five consecutive times. Overall, 38 restaurants in America made it on the list.

Here are the two Chicago establishments that made the cut.

Parachute

3500 N. Elston Ave. | 773-654-1460 | parachuterestaurant.com

What Eater Had to Say: "Beverly Kim and Johnny Clark’s dishes crisscross continents in their exceptionally vivid flavors, but the road always leads back to Korea with seasonal journeys like 'dolsot' bibimbap and sesame-laced beef stew."

Smyth & the Loyalist

177 North Ada St. | 773-913-3773 | smythandtheloyalist.com

What Eater Had to Say: "At Smyth, husband and wife John Shields and Karen Urie Shields certainly show off brainpower through 12 courses that uniquely coalesce Japanese, Nordic, and Southern-American flavors and techniques."

Read more about the featured restaurants via Eater.

Parachute (Image via Google Earth)