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A Guide To Edgewater Chicago

Edgewater sits along Chicago's northern lakefront, built on decades of independent business rather than chain storefronts, and nowhere is that clearer than in its restaurant scene. Along Broadway and Clark Street, family-run kitchens serve some of the city's most authentic Vietnamese, Thai, and Chinese cooking, tucked between coffee shops and corner bakeries that rarely make it onto a citywide best-of list despite deserving one.