Anthony Bourdain's food travel show No Reservations was set in Chicago tonight (they obviously filmed sometime in the summer). He did a good job of covering the wide range of food in Chicago -- from gut-busting street food to adventurous-but-not-fancy like Hot Doug's to high-end places like Blackbird and L2O. There's a complete list of the restaurants visited on the show's website, but for my own benefit I'm going to add these places to my to-do list:
Calumet Fisheries
3259 East 95th Street, Chicago, IL 60617
The Publican
837 W Fulton Market, Chicago, IL 60607
Silver Palm Restaurant
768 N. Milwaukee Avenue, Chicago, IL 60622
Discovery
I typically am very impressed with the stuff Anthony Bourdain finds. He's the first travel/food show I've seen in BA that did anything interesting (i.e., that you wouldn't find on your own in the first week of travel).