Foursquare has crunched more than 3 billion check-ins and tens of millions of tips to create ‘best of’ guides for cities across the U.S. based on insights from the millions of people who actually were there.
The Best of Foursquare celebrates the places people love most from burger joints and cocktail bars to museums and music venues. For example, The Doughnut Vault holds the top spot for Chicago’s bakeries, while House of Blues beat out Empty Bottle for the lead for the best music venue.
Best of Food:
American
1. HUB 51
2. Pump Room
3. The Bristol
4. NoMI
5. Farmhouse Tavern
6. Rock Bottom Restaurant & Brewery
7. Hubbard Inn
8. South Branch Tavern & Grille
9. Old Town Social
10. Grand Lux Caf
Coffee
1. The Wormhole Coffee
2. Metropolis Coffee Company
3. Intelligentsia Coffee
4. Ipsento Coffee House
5. The Coffee Studio
6. La Colombe Torrefaction
7. Star Lounge Coffee Bar
8. Chava Caf
9. New Wave Coffee
10. Bridgeport Coffee House
Asian
1. Union Sushi + Barbeque Bar
2. Sun Wah BBQ
3. Wow Bao
4. Sunda
5. Slurping Turtle
6. Del Seoul
7. bopNgrill
8. Tank Noodle
9. Ba Le
10. SUSHISAMBA rio
Bakeries
1. The Doughnut Vault
2. Molly’s Cupcakes
3. Sprinkles Cupcakes
4. More Cupcakes
5. Sweet Mandy B’s
6. Floriole Cafe & Bakery
7. Hoosier Mama Pie Co.
8. Pleasant House Bakery
9. Alliance Bakery
10. Toni’s Patisserie & Caf
Burgers
1. DMK Burger Bar
2. The Bad Apple
3. Kuma’s Corner
4. 25 Degrees Restaurant
5. M Burger
6. Epic Burger
7. Burger Bar Chicago
8. Hamburger Mary’s
9. Twisted Spoke
10. Butcher & The Burger
Pizza
1. Piece Brewery & Pizzeria
2. Dimo’s Pizza
3. The Boiler Room
4. Roots Pizza
5. Coalfire Pizza
6. Frasca Pizzeria & Wine Bar
7. Spacca Napoli
8. La Madia
9. Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria
10. Ricobene’s
Best of Nightlife:
Bars
1. Longman & Eagle
2. Gilt Bar
3. Hopleaf Bar
4. The Map Room
5. Sheffield’s
6. Rockit Bar & Grill
7. Rocking Horse
8. SmallBar
9. Maria’s Packaged Goods & Community Bar
10. The Fifty/50
Music Venues
1. House of Blues Chicago
2. Empty Bottle
3. Metro
4. Green Mill Cocktail Lounge
5. Exit
6. Kingston Mines
7. Beat Kitchen
8. Lincoln Hall
9. Subterranean
10. Jay Pritzker Pavilion
Beer
1. Revolution Brewing
2. Haymarket Pub & Brewery
3. Goose Island Brewpub
4. Half Acre Beer Company
5. Duke Of Perth
6. Schoolyard Tavern
7. The Globe Pub
8. Timothy O’Toole’s
9. Fado Irish Pub & Restaurant
10. Quenchers Saloon
Cocktails
1. The Violet Hour
2. The Aviary
3. The Whistler
4. The Barrelhouse Flat
5. The Drawing Room
6. Delilah’s
7. Scofflaw
8. Untitled
9. Watershed
10. Kit Kat Lounge & Supper Club
Sports Bars
1. Crew Bar and Grill
2. Bull & Bear
3. The Anthem
4. Sluggers World Class Sports Bar and Grill
5. Joe’s Bar
6. State
7. The Boundary
8. Will’s Northwoods Inn
9. The Scout Waterhouse + Kitchen
10. The Sports Corner Bar & Grill
Pubs
1. Duke Of Perth
2. Schoolyard Tavern
3. The Globe Pub
4. Timothy O’Toole’s
5. Fado Irish Pub & Restaurant
6. Quenchers Saloon
7. Miller’s Pub
8. The Emerald Loop Bar & Grill
9. Hackney’s Printer’s Row
10. Poag Mahone’s
Best of Things to Do:
Entertainment
1. Millennium Park
2. Music Box Theatre
3. Grant Park
4. iO Chicago
5. The Second City
6. The Field Museum
7. Museum of Science & Industry
8. Lincoln Park
9. The Oriental Institute Museum
10. Landmark Century Centre Cinema
Great Outdoors
1. Millennium Park
2. Grant Park
3. John Hancock Observatory
4. Skydeck Chicago
5. Cloud Gate
6. Lincoln Park
7. Ping Tom Memorial Park
8. Alexander Calder’s Flamingo Sculpture
9. Michael Jordan Statue
10. Crown Fountain
Museums
1. The Field Museum
2. Museum of Science & Industry
3. Chicago Architecture Foundation
4. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
5. The Oriental Institute Museum
6. Chicago History Museum
7. Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
8. Adler Planetarium
9. DuSable Museum of African American History
10. The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum
Performing Arts
1. Auditorium Theatre @AuditoriumCHGO
2. The Chicago Theatre
3. Bank of America Theatre
4. Cadillac Palace Theatre
5. The Playground Theater
6. Oriental Theatre
7. Chopin Theatre
8. Steppenwolf Theatre Company
9. Goodman Theatre
10. Broadway Playhouse
Bookstores
1. Myopic Books
2. Quimby’s
3. Unabridged Books
4. Open Books
5. 57th Street Books
6. Sandmeyer’s Bookstore
7. Women & Children First
8. Barnes & Noble
9. G-Mart Comics
10. Seminary Co-op Bookstore
Best of Hot Dog Joints:
Hot Dog Joints
1. Portillo’s
2. Hot Doug’s
3. Superdawg Drive-In
4. Phil’s Last Stand
5. Franks ‘N’ Dawgs
6. Vienna Beef Factory Store & Cafe
7. The Wiener’s Circle
8. Jim’s Original Hot Dog
9. Huey’s Hot Dogs
10. Gold Coast Dogs