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Mike Gebert

Mike Gebert is a James Beard Award-winning food writer and video-maker based in Chicago. He’s the creator of the acclaimed blog Sky Full of Bacon and a contributor to the Chicago Reader, Time Out Chicago, Thrillist, Where Chicago, Serious Eats and others, and was the editor of Grub Street Chicago.

Articles by Mike

The Best BBQ Joints in Chicago

A musician picks out Willie Dixon notes.

By Mike Gebert

By Multiple Authors

The Best Chicago Deep-Dish Pizza Places

Chicago critics tend to dismiss Chicago deep dish as overblown, casserole-like, and a monstrosity next to New York thin crust.

By Multiple Authors

The Best Gyros in Chicago

Meaty, garlicky, and the prelude to a long nap after, gyros weren’t invented in Chicago, but the industrially made gyro meat cone was, which makes it incredibly hard to choose between stands that use the same lamb- or beef-filled gyro loaf from Kronos, Devanco, or one of the other manufacturers.

By Mike Gebert

The 12 Best Delis in Chicago

To name Chicago’s best delis, first you have to decide what qualifies as a deli.

By Mike Gebert

San Pellegrino

The Best Lunch Spot in 25 Chicago Neighborhoods

San Pellegrino

The Everyman's Guide to Great Asian Food in Chicago

In a city like Chicago, Asian food is everybody’s other comfort food from another mother.

By Mike Gebert

By Multiple Authors

65 Things You Need to Eat in Chicago Before You Die

Not to get all morbid on you, but we only have a finite amount of time on this big blue marble and it’s not intended to be spent huddled over your desk eating microwave dinners.

By Multiple Authors

The 15 Best Places for Polish Food in Chicago

Chicago is the biggest Polish city outside of Warsaw, and if all you know of it is hitting the Red Apple for their super-cheap buffet, you’re barely scratching the surface of the pierogi scene here.

Chicago’s 12 Best North and South Side BBQ Joints Right Now

As Tupac once rapped, "I see no changes... except for in the Chicago BBQ scene, particularly over the last year."

By Mike Gebert

The 15 Most Underrated Places to Eat in Chicago

In a city as food-rich as Chicago, there’re always some places that ought to have lines running out the door, but don’t have lines running out the door... yet.

By Mike Gebert

By Multiple Authors

Chicago's First-Ever "L" Burger Map

Wait, what the hell is that?!?

By Multiple Authors

Where to Get Chicago’s 11 Best Patty Melts

History tells us the patty melt was invented in California in the late 1940s.

By Mike Gebert