Snag one of the three tables in this tiny Guatemalan café—you don’t have enough hands to take away everything you’ll want to try. Don’t miss the chile relleno sandwich, a delicious spread of peppers and onions on soft, housemade bread…

You know you’re in a neighborhood favorite when a cop stopping in for his “usual” knows the name of the stroller-pushing mom who’s come to pick up her sister’s birthday cake…

Fifty of Chicago’s best-tasting, least-expensive meals. Can you try them all?

Christine McCabe’s takeout window, hidden in a Lincoln Park alley off Armitage Avenue, is patronized by dog walkers, morning commuters, stay-at-home stroller pushers and basically anybody else with an affinity for sugar and a distaste for waiting…

We might have rolled our eyes at the vintage stylings of Scott Harris’s doughnut shop (which also has takeout-only operations in Wicker Park and the Gold Coast). But after tasting the shop’s practically perfect old-fashioned doughnut, we aren’t rolling our eyes at anything…

We might have rolled our eyes at the vintage stylings of Scott Harris’s doughnut shop (which also has takeout-only operations in Wicker Park and the Gold Coast). But after tasting the shop’s practically perfect old-fashioned doughnut, we aren’t rolling our eyes at anything…

During her years hawking French pastries at farmers’ markets, chef Sandra Holl developed a passionate following with the best croissants and fruit galettes in the city…

Maybe it's the giant pie sculpture in the window here that seduces you and draws you in. Or maybe it's the fact that eating at this charitable café is an easy way to support an org that provides hunger relief…

At Brendan Sodikoff’s doughnut shop adjacent to his Gilt Bar, cooks using the noms de plume François and Henri Gras put out batches of vanilla glazed, chestnut, buttermilk old-fashioned and other doughnuts of both the cake and yeast variety…

Chances are good that when you walk into this tiny, morning-only doughnut shop from Lettuce Entertain You, you’ll find people milling about, waiting for the bacon doughnuts to be ready. You can join them if you want…