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AI Visibility Index · September 2026

Restaurants in Chicago that AI assistants recommend

We asked ChatGPT and Claude the four questions a buyer asks when looking for restaurants in Chicago, three times each, in English, and counted who they named. These are the businesses named in two or more of the 24 answers.

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Restaurants · Chicago
54%of answers named Oriole
Answers
24
Businesses named
36
Named only once
17
Named by 2+ assistants
17 of 19
Named again on a rerun
62%

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Asked for restaurants in Chicago, ChatGPT and Claude most often named Oriole (54% of answers), Alinea (50%) and Boka (50%). Across 24 answers they named 36 different businesses, 17 of them only once. Each of four buyer questions was asked three times, in English, in September 2026.

The ranking

Share is the fraction of the 24 answers that named a business. The range under it is a 95% confidence interval: where two ranges overlap, the gap between those businesses could be chance.

Restaurants in Chicago named by AI assistants, September 2026
#BusinessShareChatGPTClaudeQuestionsAvg. position
1Oriole54%95%: 35 to 72%58%50%3 of 41.6
2Alinea50%95%: 31 to 69%50%50%2 of 41.5
3Boka50%95%: 31 to 69%50%50%4 of 44
4Smyth46%95%: 28 to 65%50%42%2 of 43.1
5Kasama38%95%: 21 to 57%33%42%2 of 43.1
6Bavette’s Bar & Boeuf29%95%: 15 to 49%33%25%2 of 42.6
7Monteverde29%95%: 15 to 49%25%33%2 of 44.3
8The Gage25%95%: 12 to 45%25%25%1 of 41
9Mi Tocaya Antojería25%95%: 12 to 45%25%25%1 of 42.7
10Birrieria Zaragoza21%95%: 9 to 41%25%17%1 of 43.2
11Gibsons Italia21%95%: 9 to 41%17%25%1 of 44.4
12Lula Cafe21%95%: 9 to 41%17%25%1 of 44.8
13Ever17%95%: 7 to 36%8%25%1 of 44.5
14Cindy’s Rooftop13%95%: 4 to 31%8%17%1 of 44.7
15HaiSous Vietnamese Kitchen13%95%: 4 to 31%8%17%1 of 46.3
16Virtue Restaurant13%95%: 4 to 31%8%17%1 of 47
17Johnnie’s BeefAlso written Johnnie's Beef8%95%: 2 to 26%8%8%1 of 42
18Avec River North8%95%: 2 to 26%17%0%1 of 44
19Virtue8%95%: 2 to 26%17%0%1 of 46

Each assistant column is the share of that assistant's own answers. Questions counts how many of the four produced the name at least once; position is where it came in the answer's list, 1 being first. 17 more names came up in a single answer and are counted above but not listed.

What each assistant said

The same questions, the same number of times, and often different names. Each column is one assistant's top five from the ranking above, with the share of its own answers that named them.

#ChatGPTClaude
1Oriole58%Oriole50%
2Alinea50%Alinea50%
3Boka50%Boka50%
4Smyth50%Smyth42%
5Kasama33%Kasama42%

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Every business in the ranking was named in two or more answers. The badge says that and nothing more: no position, because the ranges above do not support one. It links back to this page, so anyone can check.

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Named by AI assistants: Restaurants in Chicago, AIGROW AI Visibility Index, September 2026
<a href="https://aigrow.gg/index/restaurants/chicago"><img src="https://aigrow.gg/badges/index/2026-09/restaurants/chicago.svg" width="312" height="100" alt="Named by AI assistants: Restaurants in Chicago, AIGROW AI Visibility Index, September 2026"></a>

The questions

Asked word for word, three times each, to every assistant through its API. The prompt is the one the free scan uses. No web search, no location and no chat history, so every answer starts from the same place.

  1. 1What is the best restaurant in Chicago?
  2. 2I'm looking for a restaurant in Chicago for a special dinner. Which would you recommend?
  3. 3Which restaurants in Chicago do the locals recommend?
  4. 4Where should I take a client for a business lunch in Chicago?

How to read this page

The full method
What it measures
Which names these models produce when asked cold, from what they learned in training. It is not a review, a rating or our recommendation, and a business missing here may simply be one the models were never shown.
Why the ranges matter
24 answers is a sample. Asked again next month, most shares will move by a few points; the ranges say how far they could move by chance alone.
One business, several spellings
Branches, legal suffixes and spellings of one business are merged, and the other spellings are printed under its name. Names that might be two businesses are kept apart.
A name is wrong
If a business here is closed, misnamed or yours and you want it removed, tell us. We correct or remove it when the page is next published.

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