Originally Posted by
Fraser
Generally I'm not a tour person at all but these ones (Foods of New York) are pretty good, IMO.
Interesting, coming from a New Yorker. I wouldn't say the same for Chicago. All the food tours I've seen here take you to tourist places. Certainly someone can find deep dish pizza (total tourist food), a hot dog, or Italian beef with about two minutes of internet research. Of course, we're also much less of a street food, window counter city than New York (disappointing).
We're also maybe a little more spread out in terms of specialty dishes. It's a long drive to get smoked fish in the south suburbs to authentic Indian food on Devon St.
Bottom line, I wouldn't recommend Chicago food tours
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